Why was part of my higher education learning to write a compare and contrast essay? What’s even the point of those? Feels like a lazy mistak...

Everyman existential middle class pretty much set perfect life family check shelter check security check but stuck hitting your upward mobil...

I have a strong aversion to protagonists who lack moral ambiguity. I mean too perfect. Passively condescending. Arrogant. Delusional. Too cl...

Japanese woman films travelogue in Uzbekistan for television. Is   To the Ends of the Earth   (2019, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) as boring as its prem...

Wow I see the first Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie that I hated and its follow up turns out to be as if he remade it in a way that more closely corr...

First speedbump through my Kiyoshi Kurosawa run. This one didn’t do it for me.   So what do we got workin here? In  Before We Vanish  (2017,...

Emotionally macabre. The scary thing is how does this film get me to empathize to actually truly feel the sorrow and sadness for these deplo...

Shochiku. Lavish production values. First of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s late masterpieces. There’s always been something about the police procedural...

Tender sweet as a marshmallow over a crackling campfire. Childlike innocence imbued picaresque extended sleepovers ghost romance syllabus of...

Were you apprehensive worried by the trailers that this looks too colorful too chaotic like a Joel Schumacher Batman mess? I was. Don’t worr...