Where To Start With Juzo Itami
If you have ever been interested in watching the films of Juzo Itami but have never been sure where to start, this list of three recommendations is sure to be immensely helpful!
Review: Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005)
Linda Linda Linda is a film about making friends, making music, and enjoying yourself; something I certainly did while watching. It’s a comfortable, joyous experience with all the catchy hooks and bubblegum fun of the best pop-punk there is. The story of Linda Linda Linda is pretty simple: some high school girls have started a […]
Review: The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Looking back at some of the posts I’ve written on this site, it’s probably fair to say that I’m a bit of a fan of Hirokazu Kore-eda. When I heard that he would be working with Netflix as show-runner to a TV miniseries based on a manga and with a major focus on food and […]
City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002), Globalisation and a Little Nostalgia
This is going to be a post of many firsts (beyond the obvious ones, like first post about a film from Brazil, first post about a Portuguese film, first post about City of God, and on and on and on…). More importantly, City of God is one of the first foreign films that I remember […]
Blu-Ray Review: Boat People (Ann Hui, 1982, Criterion Collection)
The Criterion Collection is a distribution company which has been operating for many years, remastering and bringing back to life many old, forgotten or just plain lesser-seen films from around the world. Initially a US-only company, it recently started releasing Blu-Rays in the UK as well. Sadly there are some Criterion films which don’t make […]
Blu-Ray Review: Midnight (Kwon Oh-seung, 2021, Eureka Entertainment)
Being a follower of Eureka Entertainment’s Twitter account, Midnight is a film I’ve been hearing quite a lot about for the past year or so, from its initial limited release (which I sadly couldn’t get to any screenings of) all the way up to its Blu Ray release this week. It’s safe to say I […]
Blu-Ray Review: Armour of God (Deluxe Collector’s Edition, 88 Films)
I have really enjoyed some of Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong action stuff in the past, and also really liked 88 Films recent release of The Young Master, so when I heard about this Armour of God release I was excited. It’s a Jackie Chan film I haven’t seen before, and it sounded like it’d be […]
Review: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
“Did you know this theatre is haunted?” The first line spoken by a character in the film, nearly 45 minutes into its running time, perfectly encapsulates the feeling of Goodbye, Dragon Inn. It’s the final night of business for an old-fashioned Taipei cinema, and 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn plays in a cavernous theatre to a […]
Empire’s Top 50 Animated Films List: Let’s Break It Down And Make It Better
The UK film magazine Empire recently released a list of their Top 50 Animated Films Of All Time, and I have to say…I’m not really a fan of it. It’s not that it was a list filled with bad films or anything like that, most of the films they chose are pretty good, but for […]
Five of the Best: Food Moments in Film
This film was first made as a video list, available here: Food is a huge part of every-day life. We (usually) interact with it every day, it gives us energy, pleasure, a link to our shared cultures and histories, and an excuse to interact with each other. We literally need it to survive! Considering how […]