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The Fantastical Is Brought To Stunning Life In Princess Mononoke

A few months back, I wrote about how much better animation is when it's engaging in stories and…

Scorsese And Gangster Cinema Collided For The First Time On Mean Streets

With The Irishman dropping on Netflix streaming this coming Wednesday, now seems like a fine time t…

Road to Perdition Is A Crime Thriller That Sticks With You

It’s amazing what a difference a hat can make. Like a pair of glasses, a person can look totally di…

Death by Hanging Confronts Ludicrous Prejudice With Equally Ludicrous Dark Comedy

It was supposed to be a simple execution. R (Don-yun Yu), son of Korean immigrants raised and livin…

Heat's Character Scenes Are Only OK But Its Heist Sequences Are Sublime

Before they worked together on The Irishman and Righteous Kill , Al Pacino and Robert De Niro'…

Woman in the Dunes Uses Subtle Techniques To Chill You To The Bone

Some movies can make eloquent use of graphic on-screen violence to generate tension. John Carpenter…

I Live In Fear Is A Brutal Rumination on Inescapable Paranoia

In I Live in Fear , the past doesn't just have an ominous presence, it practically blankets the…

The Last Temptation of Christ's Compelling Humanity Makes It One of the Best Scorsese Movies

Martin Scorsese is known for his gangster movies and for good reason, he's made one of the …

After Hours Is A Rapid-Fire Dark Comedy Gem

Typically, Martin Scorsese movies are known for their expansive nature. They follow gangsters for n…

Air Force One Is Like Catnip For 1990s Blockbuster Fans Like Myself

You know what strain of blockbuster cinema I love? 1990s disaster movies! Chalk up my fondness for …

The Twists Keep On Coming at a Riveting Rate in Mother

SPOILERS FOR MOTHER AND OTHER BONG JOON-HO MOVIES AHEAD There's so much to love in the work of …

13 Days of First-Time Frights: Let the Right One In

13 Days of First-Time Frights is a series of reviews for October 2019 where Douglas Laman, in the s…

The Insect Woman Is A Brutal But Essential Watch

The Insect Woman spends no time making sure its title is accurate as it opens on footage of an ins…

13 Days of First-Time Frights: American Psycho

13 Days of First-Time Frights is a series of reviews for October 2019 where Douglas Laman, in the s…

13 Days of First-Time Frights: Near Dark Review

13 Days of First-Time Frights is a series of reviews for October 2019 where Douglas Laman, in the s…

13 Days of First-Time Frights: Nosferatu

13 Days of First-Time Frights is a series of reviews for October 2019 where Douglas Laman, in the s…

The Characters in Onibaba Never Mask Their Conflict Between Each Other

At the start of Onibaba, a pair of samurai are wandering through tall grass when they're attack…

13 Days of First-Time Frights: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

13 Days of First-Time Frights is a series of reviews for October 2019 where Douglas Laman, in the s…

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