TURKISH STAR WARS (or: THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD)
Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam does not actually means Turkish Star Wars. It actually translates to The Man Who…
YAKUZA APOCALYPSE
In the early 2000’s, prolific director Takeshi Miike bridged the gap from Japan to the…
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER
Dear old people, please turn off your goddamned phones. If your phone rings once in…
The Echoes of PHANTOM
In November 2008, India was rocked by a rapid succession of terrorist bombings and shootings…
Cub
The plot for Cub couldn’t be more basic: A troop of boy scouts go into the woods; horror…
ALLÉLUIA
Way back in the 1940s, Martha Beck, a once-divorced mother of two children from two…
THE LOOK OF SILENCE
Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn’s 2012 documentary, The Act of Killing, examined a political genocide of Communist…
10,000 KM: Technology is no salve for contact
Maybe you’ve been in a relationship where your partner had to go abroad for a year.…
Film on the Television (7/10/15 – 7/12/15): LA CAGE AUX FOLLES II on MGM HD
Everybody knows about La Cage Aux Folles, the French play that became a movie, a Broadway…
WHITE GOD revitalizes cinema through dogs
James St. James opens Party Monster by saying “I think it’s so important to begin with a…