Martin Freeman made his career playing affable fish-out-of-water—friendly, helpful fellows, but basically audience proxies replicating the viewer’s incredulity at outlandish people and things. He’s th…
Ramen Heads Movie Review: A mouth watering yet forgettable treat
I remember the first time I ever had a proper bowl of Japanese ramen. I was twenty-one and studying abroad in Tokyo for a semester. Late one night my dorm-leader suggested we hop on our bikes and foll…
I Lived Part of Unsane: Separating Fact from Fiction in Steven Soderbergh’s latest
Trigger Warning: This post contains language about depression and suicide that some may find upsetting [Mild Spoilers About Unsane Ahead] I never had a used tampon thrown at me, but I do remember the …
The China Hustle Movie Review
Imagine you’re a Chinese business and you want to enter the US market. Let’s also pretend that it’s around 2008 and the US stock market has just crashed thanks to the subprime mortgage crisis. Your co…
Demon House Could Have Been The Room of Documentaries
One hundred and eleven minutes. One hundred and eleven nerve-nulling, soul-deadening minutes. That’s how long Zak Bagans felt his preposterously inept “documentary” Demon House should run. I’m not sur…
Gringo is a Messy but Compelling Shkreli Revenge Fantasy
There’s no way Amazon Studios could have predicted they would release Nash Edgerton’s Gringo on the same day hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fra…
7 Guardians of the Tomb Movie Review: One redeeming moment can’t save this misfire
There is precisely one redeeming moment in Kimble Rendall’s 7 Guardians of the Tomb, a sci-fi horror blockbuster touting itself as the largest Chinese-Australian co-production in history. The scene co…