©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures These little blue guys were Belgium’s biggest export since Belgian waffles. Peyo created them way back in 1958, but they became a breakout American sensation in the early 1980s. Their hit Saturday morning cartoon even inspired breakfast cereals and Ice Capade shows. Four decades later, the franchise remains healthy, even though…
The fantasy comedy picture A Samurai In Time, directed by Jun’ichi Yasuda, focuses on the time travel experience of Kosaka Shinzaemon (Makiya Yamaguchi). He is an Aizu samurai from the Edo era, who is struck by lightning and is transported to the film studios of 2007 Japan. It will take some time for this 19th…
The horror film written and directed by Yaguchi Shinobu presents the filmmaker in a new light. The Japanese director, specialised in feel-good “zero to hero” films, switches to an eerie, creepy and gruesome type of storytelling. Dollhouse tells the story of Yoshie (Nagasawa Masami) and Tadahiko (Seto Koji), who are married and have a 5-year-old…
@Courtesy of Kino Films There are a few times when the very first few images of a movie are able to set the tone of it. This is the case of this psychological melodrama directed by Kichitarô Negishi. The beauty of a red umbrella passing through an aisle on a rainy morning. The simplicity of…
©Courtesy of Toei Princess Chao is not exactly the “Little Mermaid,” at least not the one you might recognize. For one thing, she usually presents herself to the outside world as a giant fish. That is just how merpeople look when they are out of the water—unless they feel sufficiently safe to reveal their true…
The word Serendipity stands for “the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident,” it’s basically a blessing in disguise. The film directed by Akiko Ohku seems to explore the darker aspect of life’s fortuitous events. The destinies of the characters involved in the story, rather than finding something good accidentally, traverse unexpected sorrows and someway…
The prodigious documentary directed by Amélie Ravalec focuses on a time of profound social change in the Land of the Rising Sun: the Sixties. Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers portrays how the turbulent times of the postwar era inspired an artistic explosion across the Nipponic nation, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers I’ve seen James Gunn’s movies, including “Slither“, “Super“, and wildly more appreciated films like “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad“. He established his reputation by crafting edgy and punk rock characters that don’t fit into mainstream superheroes. So when James Gunn announced that he would tackle the last son…
©Courtesy of Netflix This twisted underground game really ought to retire Seong Gi-hun’s number: #456. Just like Patrick McGoohan’s unnamed character should be the only #6 in the world of the trippy British science fiction series The Prisoner, #456 should be exclusively reserved for Seong, the sole champion in game history to ever return to…
Many Gen X’ers grew up with Superman and the Super Friends on Saturday mornings. Before that, the 1940’s Oscar-nominated Fleischer animated shorts established many iconic elements now intimately associated with Superman, like the “faster than a speeding bullet” intro and his use of phone booths for quick changes. Clearly, the character, born out the pages…
Director R.T. Thorne, sets his 40 Acres in a post-apocalyptic-near-future. In this world a mysterious plague has wiped out all animal life on Earth, causing an unprecedented global famine for a few surviving human beings, who have turned to cannibalism as their only means of survival. In this funereal scenario, a family lives isolated on…
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