Review: Your Name
Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name is the highest-grossing anime film of all-time, and it hasn’t even come out in the United States yet. It ...
Tag: Foreign
Reviews
Review: Ugetsu
The films of Kenji Mizoguchi have been a major blind spot in my life as a filmgoer. I’ve seen plenty of Akira Kurosawa ...
Reviews
Review: Raw
While playing at film festivals last year, the hype over Raw was insane. Writer/director Julia Ducournau’s coming-of-age horror/cannibal drama purportedly caused audience members ...
Trailers
Trailer: Kung-Fu Yoga has Jackie Chan and a CG lion named Little Jackie
I don’t think I’ve legitimately liked a Jackie Chan movie since 2004’s New Police Story. There were good scenes and flashes of brilliance ...
Trailers
Trailer for Cambodian martial arts movie Jailbreak looks like furious fun
My taste is eclectic, but I am, at heart, a simple man. Sometimes I want a long Hungarian art movie, or an oblique ...
Trailer: The Lure looks like the sexy cannibal mermaid musical the world needs (NSFW)
I had no idea about The Lure until last night even though it played at Sundance last year. The Lure is now one ...
Trailers
Watch the trailer for Mikhail Red’s Filipino thriller Birdshot
The second film from Filipino director Mikhail Red, Birdshot looks like a solid, stylish thriller. The film played at the Tokyo International Film ...
Trailers
The trailer for Kodoku: Meatball Machine is blood-soaked and absolutely bonkers (NSFW)
If GWAR in its classic form decided to remake Tetsuo: The Iron Man, it might look like Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Kodoku: Meatball Machine. That ...
Trailers
9-minute trailer for Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall is more than just Matt Damon
The old myth was that astronauts could see The Great Wall of China from space. A new 9-minute trailer for Zhang Yimou’s The ...
Trailers
Witness the trailer and poster for Mad Shelia, a Chinese Mad Max rip-off
Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the best action movies of the 21st century, and was one of the best movies of ...
Ithaca Fantastik Review: Miruthan
[This review is part of Flixist’s coverage of Ithaca Fantastik, a genre film festival in upstate New York running from ...
Pokemon: The First Movie is coming back to theaters October 29th and November 1st
The popularity of Pokemon Go spawned a forthcoming Detective Pikachu movie from Legendary Pictures. With the Pokemon resurgence, it should come as no surprise ...