Binge or Purge?: Bananya We take a look at another saccharin sweet, slightly silly show out of Japan. Bananya is less fun than I would have wanted, but I feel that I’m not the target …
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Retro Review: A Page of Madness (1926) One of the oldest surviving Japanese films, A Page of Madness is more than just a historical footnote. The early days of Japanese cinema offer few relics …
Product Review: Tubi Tubi is a fair, and fairly robust, streaming service. Its surprisingly deep library and canny curating make strong cases for adding the app to your arsenal. Tubi (alternately: TubiTV) has been around …
Coming Soon Trailers: MIB International, The Dead Don’t Die, Shaft. Hope you’re in the mood for popcorn because we’ve got a full slate of films landing this weekend, both at theaters and at home. We’ve …
What’s New on VUDU: June 2019 Another month, another solid mix of free flicks over at VUDU. Cult classics and summer blockbusters (from yester year) abound this June. Sorry for the late post, but June’s …
Film History: The Cinema of Japan. We celebrate the cinematic legacy of over 120 years of Japanese film making in June, starting with the history of Japanese film. It’s no surprise that the country that …
Box Office Wrap Up: As Phoenix Turns to Ash, Box Office Rises. Sequels continue to crater, yet the box office is doing brisk business so far this summer. I hope you like a paradox. For …
Our Ten’s List: Most Anticipated Films of 2019, Pt 2. We hit the second half of the year loaded up with ten more movies to look forward to. Godzilla was our last pick for …
Movie Review: Brightburn. This dark riff on Superman’s origin story doesn’t delve deeply into its ideas, instead focusing on its horror elements. You don’t have to be big into comic books to know Superman’s origins: …
You Get What You Pay For: Destroy All Monsters This Showa-era Godzilla flick has a serious problem over-promising and under-delivering on it’s premise. Namely the whole “Destroy ALL Monsters” thing. Welcome to the inaugural edition …
Coming Soon Trailers: Dark Phoenix, Secret Life of Pets 2. What will likely be Fox’s final X-Men outing hits theaters, looking for a big send-off. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Now that Disney has gobbled …
VOD Triple Play: Godzilla (Netflix). Netflix’s trilogy reinvents Godzilla in interesting ways, deftly re-purposing decades of monsters and lore. Toho’s big green kaiju has been around for almost seventy years, and in that time he’s …