Film. Any genre from any place in the world.
Today is February 29th, leap day. It like most days is host to many significant historic and pop culture events. The Salem Witch accusations began, Christopher Columbus Scammed the Jamaican Indians, Korea pulls its forces out of Vietnam, and on a lighter side of things The Lord of the Rings The Return of The […]
It’s been a while since Evangelion was released, and for some reason there are now remakes. These new films are called “Rebuilds” the supposed reasoning was so the series creator Anno could recreate the series as he had originally wanted. But of course, things are much more complicated then that. For this review it is […]
This review is dedicated to my longtime best friend–a lover of wolves, a conservationist, and an anime fan. And, very recently, the birthday girl! Director and co-writer Mamoru Hosoda delivers in Wolf Children a gem of an ode to the heartrending challenges and unimaginable joys of parenthood. Hana is a university student who falls in […]
Director J.J. Abrams once said that as a youth he enjoyed Star Wars more than the Star Trek franchise he’s dabbled in, and the high-energy antics he brought to the latter franchise find the warmest of welcomes in George Lucas’ time-honored saga. The Force Awakens feels reverent of its venerable legacy even to an arguable […]
(It feels so good to finally make time to finish a post I’d been too busy to work on for two months.) After FBI agent Kate Macer gets drawn into a conflict south of the Tex-Mex border, she learns that the war on drugs is much more complicated, and much more tragic, than any one […]
(The Sidearc edition of this post is dedicated to a user and friend, @panamapunk, without whom I don’t know I would have ever been motivated to see this film. It was worth it, and hence he is in part to thank for this review and the experiences that built it.) There is more to be […]
