Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Kyosogiga Serdar Yegulalp July 25, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth I suspect most people's first encounter with Kyōsōgiga is going to be much like mine: first you're confused and frustrated, then you're fascinated, and then finally you're even a little bit moved and awed.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: A Silent Voice Serdar Yegulalp July 4, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth A gorgeous adaptation of the acclaimed manga, and a story with a hard moral question: Who gets to be redeemed?
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Like The Clouds, Like The Wind Serdar Yegulalp June 20, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth But there's more to Like The Clouds, Like The Wind than nostalgia or cross-references; it's a fine project in its own right.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Mary and the Witch’s Flower Serdar Yegulalp May 30, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth The freshman effort from ex-Ghibli creators Studio Ponoc at first seems like a riff on 'Kiki's Delivery Service' or 'Harry Potter' territory, but has morality rather than magic on its mind.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: After the Rain Serdar Yegulalp April 25, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth But After the Rain, from Jun Mayuzuki's manga of the same name, isn't about romance, but something subtler and harder to come by.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Life of Budori Gusuko Serdar Yegulalp April 13, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth What I can't complain about, and what makes the movie absolutely worth seeing anyway, is just about everything else in it.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Napping Princess Serdar Yegulalp March 14, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Napping Princess feels like too much and too little at the same time.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Perfect Blue Serdar Yegulalp February 28, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth A movie this good, there's always another layer to unwrap.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Land of the Lustrous Serdar Yegulalp February 7, 2018 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Lustrous's microcosm is a crescent-shaped island somewhere out in the middle of an apparently endless ocean.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Haibane Renmei Serdar Yegulalp November 15, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Like Wings of Desire, 2001, Night On The Galactic Railroad, or any of the other great works about man's place in the universe, Haibane Renmei inspires more reflection than certainty.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Kaiba Serdar Yegulalp November 1, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Kaiba is set in a universe that has what I could describe as an alternate ecology.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Neo Yokio Serdar Yegulalp October 18, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth It's not good, to be sure -- but maybe being its own special kind of bad is more valuable than we think.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Blade Runner Black Out 2022 Serdar Yegulalp October 4, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth The simple algebra for Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is that it's to Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 as an episode of The Animatrix was to The Matrix generally.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Seijun Suzuki’s ‘Taishō Trilogy’ Serdar Yegulalp September 20, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Japan's Roaring Twenties are both backdrop and stage for these three excursions into the delirious, the decadent, and the surreal.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: In This Corner of the World Serdar Yegulalp September 13, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth A masterwork, not just of period reconstruction and attention to the details of daily life, but also for the ways it navigates through the tricky issues of a story about WWII Japan without stumbling.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Death Note (2017) Serdar Yegulalp August 30, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth There are so many individual things wrong with Netflix's live-action Death Note film that you might as well roll dice to figure out where to start.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu Serdar Yegulalp August 16, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth The work collected in Astonishing is as wide-ranging as the man who created it.
Welcome To The Desert Of The Real: The Live-Action ‘Gintama’ And ‘Bleach’ Serdar Yegulalp August 2, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth There's always the chance the live-action 'Gintama' and 'Bleach' movies will be good, but right now they appear to embody the deadliest, most literal sins of such projects.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Outlaw Star Serdar Yegulalp July 12, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Outlaw Star mashes together ingredients drawn as much from Westerns and wuxia adventure stories as it does space opera or pulp SF.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Ocean Waves Serdar Yegulalp June 14, 2017 Big Eyes Smart Mouth A trifle of a film, but it doesn't overstate its importance or overstay its welcome, and it shows how Studio Ghibli gave as much care to stories like this as they did for any of Miyazaki's fantasias