Jason says: “THINGS NEVER SAID, while it spends a lot of time on spoken word erformances, enough for it to be a major focus of the film and the way most people recommending it will describe it to others, isn’t
Thom says: “I spent a good number of Saturdays trying to learn Japanese a year or two ago, and one thing I remember about those classes is that when students mentioned they liked manga, the teacher always asked if they
Jason says: “Ed Harris. Western. There, that should have sold everyone… Oh, you need more? Fine. SWEETWATER (also known as SWEET VENGEANCE) is a dark, bloody Western that is both fairly traditional and over-the-top crazy, with a fairly great cast.
Jason says: “THE ROOFTOP is overstuffed, like Jay Chou had a half-dozen ideas for his 1960s Taiwanese musical project and couldn’t decide exactly which ones he wanted to use. So he threw in all of them, even if they don’t
Thom says: “I’m still trying to figure out what happened to the career of director Kim. After SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER…AND SPRING (2003) won numerous world awards, including an award from Chlotrudis as well & I when I finally saw
Thom says: “This was a TIFF 2012 entry that I was dying to attend but they didn’t award me a slot. This film from Chile concerns itself with the plebiscite that finally overthrew the heinous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in
Chris says: “Art is a tricky subject for a movie. Most filmmakers take the artist biopic route (and many of them end up feeling stuffy and hermetic) while others utilize a more experimental approach (RUSSIAN ARK and its feature-length tracking
Jason says: “This movie seems like it has no business being as good as it is – it’s a sweet, goofy thing that makes occasional ventures into crude adult territory, and the world of sentai action it’s set in demands
Jason says: “Imagine a hat containing many pieces of paper. Each one of those slips of paper has written upon it an offbeat comedy trope, and screenwriters start their work by grabbing a handful. KEY OF LIFE is an example
Jason says: “The time period covered by JOSÉ AND PILAR aligns, roughly, with the time it took Nobel Prize-winning writer José Saramago to bring his book The Elephant’s Journey from concept to release, and that sounds like a fairly dull