Chimney Town: Frozen in Time ★★
After the critical and commercial success of Yusuke Hirota‘s Poupelle of Chimney Town, which took the whimsical characters of AkihiroContinue Reading
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Berlinale 2026: London, Everything Else is Noise, If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Ghost in the Cell, AnyMart
Over the past few years the same thing kept happening at Berlinale. I’d see an early screening of something stunningContinue Reading
Father Mother Sister Brother ★★★½
Father Mother Sister Brother is a film built on its silence. It is quiet and unassuming in general, but itContinue Reading
Rental Family ★★★
Phillip Vandarploeug (Brendan Fraser) is struggling. An American living in Japan, Phillip is an outsider. He is lonely, spending hisContinue Reading
White Flowers and Fruits ★★★
Ghosts, grief, and growing up form a melancholic mêlée in Sakamoto Yukari‘s directorial debut about characters quite literally haunted byContinue Reading
Cloud ★★★½
No one comes out clean in our post-capitalist world. You’re either exploited, or you’re an exploiter. At least that’s whatContinue Reading
What We’re Watching – September 2024
This month, our What We’re Watching column brings you a Kurosawa classic and two lesser-known films worthy of your attention.Continue Reading
What We’re Watching – May 2024
Crime, romance, and the absurd take center stage for our May What We’re Watching column, a trio of films fromContinue Reading
Monster ★★★
Saori (Sakura Andō) knows there is something wrong with her son Minato (Sōya Kurokawa). One day, he unexpectedly goes missing,Continue Reading
What We’re Watching – November 2023
This November, we look back at a number of lesser known films as well as one film that perhaps wasContinue Reading
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