NYAFF 2024 Review: The Escaping Man
The popularity and critical acclaim that Bong Hoon-Jo’s Parasite received has had a much bigger impact on Asian cinema than I really anticipated. ...
Monthly Archives: July 2024
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Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
Hey! Did you know Deadpool is now in the MCU thanks to Deadpool & Wolverine? Did you know Hugh Jackman is back as ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Breaking and Re-Entering
While the NYAFF this year is littered with a ton of character dramas and generally unconventional narrative films, it’s not lacking in crowd-pleasing ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Baby Assassins: Nice Days
For over 20 years now, action director Kensuke Sonomura has been rising up the ranks of both video game and film choreography to ...
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Review: Hundreds of Beavers
It’s easy to say that comedy is dead. Comedy, like most things in the world, is highly polarized to the point where people ...
NYAFF 2024 Review: Bushido
Much like how Westerns have gradually faded away from modern Hollywood cinema, samurai films have mostly fallen out of favor with modern Japanese ...
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Review: Twisters
There was a time when disaster movies were all the rage. From Apocalypse to basically every Roland Emmerich film in the ’90s, disaster movies were ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Snow in Midsummer
One of the scenarios that can crop up when watching international cinema is that you might not be able to fully understand the ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: The Guest
It’s a bit refreshing to see such a minimalist horror/thriller get featured at a big film festival. After watching a ton of two-hour-long ...
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Review: Longlegs
Whatever your stance is on the recent wave of horror films, it’s apparent that their popularity is soaring. That is certainly the case ...
NYAFF 2024 Review: Granny Prostitutes
I’ll level with all of you right up front: the main reason I wanted to review Granny Prostitutes is because the title of ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Carefree Days
It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a film that could be wholly categorized as a character study. As what seems to ...