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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Xeno File: IRREVERSIBLE (2002) Seamus Smith December 5, 2016 The Xeno File Like all of the scenes of violence in IRREVERSIBLE, it is disturbingly realistic and extremely difficult to watch.
The Xeno File: AUDITION (1999) Seamus Smith September 26, 2016 The Xeno File Viewed by many as Miike’s masterpiece, Audition is the first of his films to earn significant notoriety among Western horror fans, and it is, in many ways, a perfect showcase for the seasoned director’s numerous talents.
