Fantasia Review: Thanatomorphose
The other week, Alec and I had a good discussion about extreme horror and disturbing cinema. Inevitably the best films that are disturbing, ...
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Fantasia Review: The Tiger Mask
Even though I’m a grown man, there are a lot of things from my boyhood I still enjoy. Tokusatsu genre shows and movies, ...
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Fantasia Review: After School Midnighters
One of my favorite lines about kids movies comes from Terry Gilliam. When describing Time Bandits, Gilliam said he wanted to make a ...
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Japan Cuts Review: The Ravine of Goodbye
Sex in films is an odd thing. Personally, it bothers me. I tend to look away from the screen while sex scenes are ...
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Japan Cuts Review: Fly With the Gold
I don’t watch a whole lot of heist movies. It’s not that I don’t like them (I do), just that they don’t usually ...
Audience votes Hentai Kamen as best film of NYAFF 2013
At the beginning of every screening at the New York Asian Film Festival, the good folks at Subway Cinema handed out little slips ...
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NYAFF Non-Review: Sion Sono’s Bad Film is a masterpiece
Sion Sono’s Bad Film is truly a movie that should not exist. Shot in the mid 90s on Hi8 video, the film ran ...
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Japan Cuts Review: I’M FLASH!
At last year’s New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts, I saw two films by Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda: Monsters Club and ...
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Japan Cuts Review: The Floating Castle
There’s inherent drama in stories about impossible odds, and some of the better one involve samurais in Feudal Japan. In Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, ...
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Japan Cuts Review: Rurouni Kenshin
I have all 28 volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin manga. When I hear the first few notes of “Freckles,” I am suddenly returned ...
Japan Cuts Review: The Warped Forest
When I explained to a friend that I had just seen a film that featured trees that are actually women with skin colored “branches” ...
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NYAFF Review: Very Ordinary Couple
When most non-Koreans think of Korean films, they think of deeply disturbed violence and bleak, depressing dramas (I know I used to). What ...