Special Feature: The Japanese gender issue
The celebration of the female director has become paramount to film festivals globally. This years, The Japan Foundation dedicated their annual touring film program to the […]
DVD Review: ‘Resurrecting the Street Walker’
★★☆☆☆ Much like his debut film’s aspiring intern protagonist James Parker (James Powell), British director Ozgur Uyanik struggles to reign in his ambitious, yet ultimately […]
DVD Releases: ‘The Princess and the Frog’
Starring the voice talents of Anika Noni Rose, best known for her role as Lorrell Robinson in 2006’s Dreamgirls and Bruno Campos, a regular on […]
DVD Releases: ‘The Wolfman’
After the death of his brother, Shakespearean actor Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) returns to the family stately home in Blackmoor. His father John (Anthony […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘The Brothers Bloom’
In his first feature movie Brick (2005), writer-director Rian Johnson created a self-contained world of noir double-crosses, femme-fatales and hardboiled dialogue, and set it all […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘Sex and the City 2’
There is no doubt that the Sex and the City franchise is one of the most successful in television history. The series is popular with […]
Special Feature: Studio Ghibli – the Japanese Disney?
In 2002, the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature with the seminal Spirited Away (2001). To this day, it has been […]
DVD Review: ‘Ponyo’
★★★★☆ There is no doubt that we are in the middle of an animation boom, a ‘silver age’ of animation if you will. The contemporary […]