Ranking the Pixar films is a lot like trying to choose between different types of french fries. Sure, everyone has their favorite, and some are even quite passionate about what they like, dislike, or outright worship. But, ultimately, they’re all…
New York Asian Film Festival 2019: A Main Slate Retrospective
With the coming of mid-July comes the ending of the New York Asian Film Festival. Now in its 18th year, this annual collection of films remains one of the only places in New York City where audiences can watch films…
Wall-E: 10 Years Later and Even More Relevant
Although Pixar has been through its ups and downs in recent years, there’s one thing that’s always been consistent: wondrously original types of characters and universes. They manage to create the most unlikely heroes, many of them in anthropomorphic form.…
Movie Review: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (shot in classical black-and-white) recalls the old down-and-out boxer stories that enchanted old Hollywood. The myth of uneducated and unsophisticated vagrants, blessed only with the talent of giving and taking a beating,…
Halloween Movie Countdown Day 13: The Strangers (2008)
We’ll be counting down to Halloween with a new post each day about our personal favorite Halloween-inspired and horror movies. To read our past lead up to Halloween coverage, click here. I have a very complicated relationship with horror movies. Most…
Halloween Movie Countdown Day Eight: Hausu (1977)
We’ll be counting down to Halloween with a new post each day about our personal favorite Halloween inspired and horror movies. To read our past lead up to Halloween coverage, click here. It’s difficult to approach Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 Japanese film…
Halloween Movie Countdown Day Seven: Scream (1996)
We’ll be counting down to Halloween with a new post each day about our personal favorite Halloween inspired and horror movies. To read our past lead up to Halloween coverage, click here. In the horror genre, there’s little that can hold…