Magnificently rendered and beautifully shot, Samurai and the Prisoner is endlessly entertaining even as it sprawls about the walls of the castle and keeps its measured, somber approach. It blends a classic murder mystery with historical epic, which is a strange combination that someone only as
Cinema history is riddled with both coming-of-age tales and biopics aplenty. Tony, the new feature by Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), lies at the intersection of these well-worn traditions. Based on Anthony Bourdain’s chronicles of his early journey into the
In I Want Your Sex, director Gregg Araki asks audiences to embrace the primal, animal parts of ourselves. Sex, he says, is a natural thing to want. And for an under-sexualized generation, it has become something that hardly anybody pays attention to. That, however, is not to say that they don't
We all have that one film we saw when we were far too young to see. That one movie that we snuck a peek at when our parents went to bed, or movie hopping at the theater to the R-rated movie you couldn't buy a ticket for, or at your friend's house with parents who didn't care what you watched. What
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia proves the old adage that no plan survives contact with the enemy in Ep. 5 "A Snake Shows Its Colors, Man Hides His Colors". Admittedly, the plan isn't even Sitara's plan. It's the plan of her mistress Sorghaghtani. However, it still becomes clear that the whole plan
Throughout all of our lives, there are people we grow close to who act as beacons, a light in human form that allows us to find our way through the darkness. Sometimes this light merely diminishes or changes, but other times these beacon friends can become anchors, as their influence exerts itself
Daemons of the Shadow Realm gives Yuru and his Daemons and allies a very much not-so-peaceful night in Ep. 16 "Kagemori and Shingo". Indeed, it's a rather bloody and violent night, full of twists and turns that will leave viewers gaping in shock. All in all, it's a very entertaining episode for us.
Getting right into it, Spider-Man: Brand New Day also gets right into it. The film drops you a bit after we left Peter Parker off in Spider-Man: No Way Home. No one remembers him, he's the neighborhood hero again. But something is bothering him, something is changing him. Tom Holland continues to
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
