Flixist Discusses: Trash, violence, and scathing reviews
On Sunday I posted a video about the response to my extremely negative review of A Woman and War, explaining why I reviewed ...
Tag: Japan Cuts 2013
NYAFF and Japan Cuts 2013 Flixist Awards and Recap
So here we are, the culmination of the past month of our Asian obsession. We did thirty reviews, three interviews, and a whole ...
Reviews
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 ...
Features
After the Credits: Why would you want to see trash?
Earlier this week, I finally posted my review of A Woman and War, a film that I saw several weeks ago and have ...
Reviews
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 ...
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 ...
Reviews
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” ...
Reviews
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 ...
Reviews
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, ...
Features
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 ...
Japan Cuts Review: Hentai Kamen: Forbidden Super Hero
Hentai Kamen is a superhero movie about a guy who becomes an unstoppable force for perverse goodness whenever he wears a woman’s panties ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Lesson of the Evil
Takashi Miike, who makes at least a dozen films a year, has been off making Samurai films and videogame adaptations instead of the blood-drenched ...