Film
Those Lovely Angels: A Dirty Pair Retrospective
Written by Haruka Takachiko and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the Dirty Pair series is something that many newer anime fan’s have never heard of. Beginning in 1980, the series spans over eight novels in total, as of 2007, but has countlessly been adapted into many of the various outlets of anime. TV shows, OVA’s and [...]
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a Codeblack Films/Lionsgate company acquisition, resurrects the Civil Rights movement and its viral spread into a human rights global crusade before there were social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. At the center of this historic docudrama is Angela Davis, who shares her life journey of how she survived [...]
Evil Dead (2013) Review
Fede Alvarez’s remake/reboot of Evil Dead is fiercely relentless and one of the best big budget horror offerings I’ve seen in awhile. While the film isn’t perfect, it gets the big epic moments right, which makes it extremely easy to look past its flaws. While it still retains the kids being cooped up in a [...]
Day of the Falcon
Neighboring Arabian Sultans Emil (Antonio Banderas; Ruby Sparks) and Amar (Mark Strong; Zero Dark Thirty) have been fighting wars against each other for years. Both men are proud and want to possess the land between their two small kingdoms (called “The Yellow Belt”). The two men have been at peace for nearly 20 years, since [...]
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
To tell a simple story in the context of a complicated issue is not necessarily the same thing as telling a reductive story. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, while at times extremely idealistic, highlights the universal dreamer and wisher that shine most especially in teenagers and young adults, with its story of friendship and [...]
The Sweeney
Tearing up the streets of London, The Sweeney is a stylish and exhilarating action thriller proving sometimes you have to act like a criminal to catch a criminal. The Sweeney is directed by Nick Love and based on the popular 1970s U.K. television show of the same name. This movie from the beginning to the [...]
Earth’s Final Hours
One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure movies is The Core with Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, and Stanley Tucci. The story is about a manmade weapon that stalls the rotating core of the planet and causes the electromagnetic field to deteriorate. As a result, the Earth is plagued by electrical storms and solar radiation. I [...]
Tormented 3D
Famous for 2002′s Ju-On: The Grudge, Takashi Himizu has now brought us Tormented 3D, which was literally called Rabbit Horror 3D in its native Japan. This 2011 film follows Kiriko (Hikari Mitsuhima), a mute girl who lives with her storybook artist father, Kohei (Teruyuki Kagawa) and her younger half-brother, Daigo (Takeru Shibuya). One day after [...]
Blancanieves
In his seminal book on bullfighting Death In The Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway saw the act not as some sort of senseless barbaric sport but as a true art form akin to ballet or painting, but one that is fleeting and described it as, “an impermanent art as singing and dance are, one of those that [...]
The 10 Commandments of Chloe
Chloe is a struggling musician who has just moved to Nashville, Tennessee to roll the dice and try to make it as a professional singer/songwriter. In the midst of trying to get any venue in Nashville to hear her out and give her a shot, she meets Brandon (Jason Bukey), another musician just trying to [...]
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