The Vancouver International Film Festival comes more than half-a-year after Sundance, months after Cannes, and mere days after Toronto International Film Festival which is good news for us film-depend…
Movie Review: ‘Tokyo Tribe’
“If you ain’t ready to die/You can’t survive. Is there any point in praying?/Is there a price to living?” In his immaculate dining room the corpulent, cannibalistic Lord Buppa (Riki Takeuchi) holds co…
The Film Canon: Pigs and Battleships (1961)
A stampede of pigs careens its way down the streets of Yokosuka, smashing, crashing, bashing their way through crowds of prostitutes, pimps, and military police. Behind them a small-time gangster blas…
The Film Canon: High and Low (1963)
[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] Film critics must always be on guard against the temptations of hyperbole. How easy it is to, in a fit of post-credits elation, declare that such-and-such a film is the “grea…
The Film Canon: Godzilla (1954)
Before the sequels, before the reboots, before the television shows, the action figures, the video games, and its canonization as a bona fide pop culture icon, Godzilla was just a monster. A lumbering…