Jul 27, 2024 Cultural Diet Lady Snowblood by Toshiya Fujita (1973) Arterial sprays abound in this classic Japanese exploitation film from 1973 that served as the insp…
Jul 25, 2024 Review Roundup: Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine Critics respond to the Merc with a Mouth’s multiverse-spanning adventure.
Jul 24, 2024 Alien and Anime Combine in the OtaKing’s Latest Short The one-man animation studio channels Ridley Scott’s classic film through an ’80s anime aesthetic.
Jul 24, 2024 Cultural Diet Despicable Me 4 by Chris Renaud (2024) No joke is too obvious, no reference too dated, no story beat too telegraphed, no cliché too… clich…
Jul 17, 2024 Cultural Diet Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (2019) Quentin Tarantino’s ninth and penultimate film is a rambling reimagining of one of Hollywood’s dark…
Jul 16, 2024 Cultural Diet Moonfall by Roland Emmerich (2022) Sometimes you just want to watch a movie that’s — to quote Nick Nunziata from his review of Transpo…
Jul 5, 2024 Cultural Diet The Equalizer 3 by Antoine Fuqua (2023) The third and (presumably) final Equalizer movie actually feels like two movies in one. The first f…
Jul 5, 2024 Exploring the ’80s Ninja Craze Rob Hill has done yeoman’s work making sense of the strange world of ’80s ninja cinema.
Jul 4, 2024 Cultural Diet O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2000) 24 years after its original release, the Coen Brothers’ take on Homer’s Odyssey — which they transp…
Jul 3, 2024 Cultural Diet Fist of Legend by Gordon Chan (1994) One of the greatest martial arts films of all time, and arguably Jet Li’s finest film to boot. When…
Jul 1, 2024 Cultural Diet Hawk the Slayer by Terry Marcel (1980) Thanks to Peter Jackson’s Tolkien adaptations, fantasy movies have become synonymous with really lo…
Jul 1, 2024 Cultural Diet Samurai Cop by Amir Shervan (1991) Movies like Samurai Cop highlight a fundamental flaw with star ratings. Objectively speaking, it’s …
Jun 30, 2024 Cultural Diet Baby Assassins by Yugo Sakamoto (2021) Based on its trailers, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Assassins was wall-to-wall action a…
Jun 30, 2024 Cultural Diet One Cut of the Dead by Shin’ichirô Ueda (2017) A film crew is doing their darndest to make a low-budget zombie movie somewhere in the Japanese cou…
Jun 25, 2024 Cultural Diet Inside Out 2 by Kelsey Mann (2024) The original Inside Out is one of my favorite Pixar movies, a pitch-perfect blend of entertaining v…
Jun 22, 2024 Cannon Films’ 1986 Promo Reel Is a Time Capsule of Pure Movie Awesomeness In another world, these were 1986’s hottest movies.
Jun 21, 2024 Cultural Diet The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan (2008) Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight has long been held up as not just the best Batman movie of all …
Jun 20, 2024 Cultural Diet Wham! by Chris Smith (2023) You can watch Chris Smith’s Wham! documentary as a film about the band’s meteoric rise up the chart…
Jun 19, 2024 Cultural Diet Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman by Bingjia Yang (2022) I stumbled across this on Amazon Prime Video, and given it’s relatively short runtime (78 minutes),…
Jun 16, 2024 Cultural Diet Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle by Jake Kasdan (2017) I remember when this film was first announced, and the first promo photos began circulating. It loo…