©Courtesy of Crunchyroll Rimuru is sort of like the Blob, except this sentient slime fights for a safer, more just society. Once a quietly desperate salaryman, Satoru Mikami was indeed resurrected into a fantasy world as goey goop. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Able to absorb the power and essence of other beings,…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers There will be no treasure hunting or tomb raiding in this Egyptological horror film. The Cannon family never tempted fate or defied any ancient inscriptions warning them to turn back, lest they be cursed. Instead, evil goes out of its way to find them in director-screenwriter Lee Cronin’s possessively-titled Blumhouse-produced Lee…
©Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center Hajime Takano aspired to become a prolific celebrity architect, like Frank Gehry. In the process, he became an absentee father, like Louis Kahn (the subject of his son’s painful documentary, My Architect). His daughter, Emi has entirely given up on her emotionally-distant father, but her brother Ren still yearns…
©Courtesy of Neon Horror films tend to express the fears of the generations consuming them. For instance, 1950s monster movies channeled the growing atomic anxiety. Yet, few horror films are as zeitgeisty as this new Japanese adaptation of KOTAKE CREATE’s hit walking-simulator survival-horror video game, because it taps into Gen Z’s all-consuming fear of commuting…
©Courtesy of Netflix Taiza Kujo annoys other lawyers because they think he makes them look bad—and perhaps he does, but maybe not in the way that they think. He accepts the worst of the worst as his clients and negotiates deals his colleagues consider potentially unethical. However, he takes the time to better understand his…
©Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studio The spaceship Hail Mary is indeed full of grace, Dr. Ryland Grace. He was supposed to have two fellow crew-members, but they died while in suspended animation. Frankly, they were all going to die anyway, because their emergency deep-space mission does not have enough fuel for a return journey. That…
©Courtesy of NYICFF Mifuyu Mikura’s attitude towards her family’s library of rare books is much like that of the protagonist of Drops of God with respect to her late father’s valuable wine cellar. Mikura has no bibliophilic interests, but the collection is a complicated part of her family’s history and legacy, so she must try…
The birthplace of the bossa nova is also home to the largest diasporic Japanese community outside of Japan, starting when the first immigrants arrived on June 18, 1908, a date now commemorated in Brazil as “Japanese Immigration Day.” Young Noboru’s grandfather Hideo arrived during a wave of increased immigration in the 1920s, but he rarely…
A Scream movie without Sidney Prescott made about as much sense as Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, without the Bandit. In the latest installment, even a psychopathic killer admits you cannot have a Ghostface attack without Prescott. The married survivor of multiple slashings now goes by Sidney Prescott Evans, but whether she likes it…
©Courtesy of Netflix Miyamoto Musashi was the greatest samurai of the Edo Era, who, according to legend, cut through the Shogunate’s enemies like butter during the Battle of Sekigahara. Much to his surprise, a cutting-edge cloning project reincarnates him (with a little magical help from a “medium”) to fight the worst scourge of the 21st…
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