©Courtesy of Vertical In retrospect, recruiting a not-so former KGB agent to run your country yields predictably disastrous consequences. Yet, the Russia’s oligarchs heedlessly did exactly that when they bankrolled Vladimir Putin’s presidential campaign. For some, like Boris Berezovsky, it wasn’t just the biggest mistake of their lives. It was the beginning of the end….
©Courtesy of 1-2 Special Dr. Tony Wong is a rare beast. He is an elite researcher, who also delivers entertaining lectures. Even in English, rather than his native Cantonese, his classroom presentations could pass for a top 10 TED talk. Unfortunately, the mandatory Covid closure sends all the visiting professor’s students home, leaving him stranded…
©Courtesy of Crunchyroll Newcomers might be surprised by the nature and powers exhibited by so-called monsters in the world of Fuse’s manga and light novels. A slime like Rimuru Tempest (the reincarnated salaryman Satoru Mikami) possesses great power and prestige. In fact, Rimuru even attained the rank of “Demon Lord,” which, in this context, is…
©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…
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