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.
The Xeno File: Bakumatsu Taiyōden / Sun In The Last Days Of The Shogunate Serdar Yegulalp July 11, 2018 The Xeno File Yūzō Kawashima's Bakumatsu Taiyōden starts and ends as effortless entertainment, a breezy and bracing comedy exuding endless energy.
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?
The Xeno File: The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) Serdar Yegulalp June 27, 2018 The Xeno File Almost forty years later, this jet-black comedy about a one-man nuclear terrorist ring remains an absurdist masterwork
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.
The Xeno File: Mishima – A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Serdar Yegulalp June 6, 2018 The Xeno File Paul Schrader's 1985 film Mishima, co-funded by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, uses both the man's literary art and public theater to bring us to him from the inside out.
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.
Liquid Sky (1982) Serdar Yegulalp May 4, 2018 Classic Film/New Blu Many of the other strategies Liquid Sky used to be confrontational and novel have aged, some better than others.
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.
The Xeno File: Blade of the Immortal (2018) Serdar Yegulalp April 6, 2018 The Xeno File I never believed anyone other than Takashi Miike deserved to adapt Hiroaki Samura's raucous, blood-drenched manga Blade Of The Immortal into a live-action film,
The Xeno File: Ichi the Killer (2001) Serdar Yegulalp March 23, 2018 The Xeno File I approach Ichi The Killer in the way I would a friend who once did some pretty stupid things in high school.
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.
The Xeno File: THE LIFT (1983) Serdar Yegulalp February 21, 2018 The Xeno File "Take the stairs, take the stairs, for god's sake take the stairs!!" begged the tagline on the posters for the Dutch cult movie The Lift.
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.
The Xeno File: VIOLENT COP (1989) Serdar Yegulalp November 8, 2017 Movies, Reviews, The Xeno File The key to Violent Cop is not in the violent moments, but the moments where Detective Azuma (Takeshi Kitano, a/k/a Beat Takeshi) just stands there.
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.
