The first shot of starry-eyed, risk-taking filmmaker Masaaki Yuasa’s latest venture, The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, is of the nominal gal gulping down a glass of white wine in the midst of a weddin…
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms Movie Review: Mari Okada’s directorial debut is a touching fable about love and aging
The story the anime Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms tells isn’t exactly a unique one, but there’s real power in how it unfolds, even if many of its elements are familiar. ThereR…
[UPDATE] In-Rang Film Introduces Wolves of Peacekeeping In New Trailer
Per an exclusive scoop from Variety, Netflix has picked up “nearly global rights” to the film, a scenario similar to Bong Joon-ho’s Okja (our review). Additionally, the publication a…
Lu Over the Wall Movie Review: Wild, waterlogged fantasy is a treat for the eyes and heart
In the last 50 years of film, there have been eleven silver-screen adaptations of The Little Mermaid — with one more, the Blake Harris-directed feature, due to bow this summer. And those dozen pics ba…
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) Movie Review
Fullmetal Alchemist was a wonderful, engaging manga and anime series that proved to be a stellar entry point to the medium for many young people in the early 2000s, myself included. FMA was able to tr…
Mary and the Witch’s Flower Movie Review: Debut From Studio Ghibli Offshoot Is Less Than Enchanting
Mary and the Witch’s Flower may just be impossible to consider on its own terms. This is certainly no fault of the film itself, it’s simply the first feature from Studio Ponoc, the company…
Movie Review: Your Name
Visually scrumptious and powerful once the full bloom of emotions encompasses you, director Makoto Shinkai of Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second fame has delivered yet another stunn…