ⓒCourtesy of the New York Asian Film Festival Combining visceral horror with sharp social commentary can often transform familiar genre conventions into a more ambitious story. Writer-director Yeon Sang-ho returns with Colony, a zombie thriller that reinforces his status as a distinctive genre filmmaker. Following the success of his 2016 horror movie, Train to Busan, Yeon…
ⓒCourtesy of Japan Cuts In this prequel, the clones will attack. However, you will never mistake Takahide Hori’s latest stop-motion animated feature for that other film. You might even appreciate it more, if you give it half a chance. Science fiction fans will be hard-pressed to find world-building as inventive and immersive, even in tent-poles…
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts Competition was fierce, but the Battle of Okinawa might have been the most brutal 82 days of World War II’s Pacific Theater. The tragedy escalated and compounded when Okinawan civilians were used as human shields. Propaganda misinformation regarding American G.I.’s directly led to horrific mass suicides, including many of the so-called…
Chihiro Amano, a year after directing her film Sato and Sato, returns to cinemas with Magical Secret Tour that had it North American Premiere at the 25th New York Asian Film Festival. This is a gold-smuggling story inspired by true events, involving housewives who were arrested for smuggling gold bars at Chubu Centrair International Airport…
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts There are filmmakers whose careers are defined by reinvention. Then there are artists like Yoji Yamada, whose enduring greatness comes from continually refining the themes that have occupied him for decades. Tokyo Taxi, his remarkable 91st feature film, finds the veteran director returning to familiar emotional territory, yet doing so with…
In 1836 Joseph-Xavier Boniface published a book called Picciola, about Count Charney, a former soldier who had been jailed for conspiring against Napoleon, who passed his days behind bars tending a plant that lightened his time amidst the walls that imprisoned him. Japanese film director Baku Kinoshita and writer Kazuya Konomoto seem to have grasped…
©Courtesy of Zro Films The Film “1780” directed by: Dustin Fairbanks is a movie of mind game, chess game of sorts and is where the young America was going through in the early years of its existence. Mixing great actors with the poetic writing of Stephan Ralph Delpiano. I feel the sincere effort of the filmmakers…
For all those who lack historical awareness Young Washington will clarify why King Charles III, when meeting President Donald Trump at the White House in April 2026, in his speech said: “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that,…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers From a cinematic perspective DC films have been far more interesting than Marvel movies, because they have been willing to go dark, in stylistically interesting ways. Truly, no comic book movies were darker than Todd Phillips’ Joker or Matt Reeves’ The Batman. In contrast, James Gunn’s rebooted Superman was widely considered…
“A Fashion Show is like a war machine,” is the statement made by one of the characters in the film Couture, directed by Alice Winocour. This proclamation defines not just an industry, but our time, when people are defined by the productivity in any work sector. Maxine (Angelina Jolie), is an American filmmaker who arrives…
Check out more of Our YouTube Channel Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…
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