Mirai Movie Review: An imaginative animated journey

If one were to say Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai is a film about family they wouldn’t be wrong, but at the same time would be doing this tapestry of ancestral lines a disservice. Too many 2018 films are about “family,” but…

Perfect Blue 20 years later remains beautiful and haunting

How better to describe the films of the late Satoshi Kon than guiding spirits to our agitated subconscious. Although all his films can be called dream factories, this notion becomes quite literal in his last feature Paprika, a film that…

Movie Review: Miss Hokusai

Miss Hokusai doesn’t explore an artist’s plight so much as it explores a certain plight that effects every living person. O-Ei Hokusai, a great painter, lives in the shadow of her father’s accomplishments, resigned—as his daughter—to play second fiddle. The anime opens introducing not…

Allyson’s Movie Review: From Up on Poppy Hill

Studio Ghibli is note-worthy for consistently being the vehicle of some of cinephiles best loved animated movies. Producing the same worth of magic and warmth that Pixar does but with a greater sense of adventure and a much stronger grasp…