Biopics about musical icons can make for very compelling films. Tina Turner's life was explored in explicit and ultimately triumphant detail in What's Love Got To Do With It? while the heart of Selena Quintanilla Perez was captured to its fullest in Selena. Some feature great performances, but the
Lost in the Reel's video review for Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Writer/Director Ana Lily Amirpour is one of those filmmakers that's voice, vision, and vibe is so distinctly her own… that it's impossible not to get excited about a new project from her. Yet she returns with her third feature,
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.