Film Review: Fukushima 50 (2021)
Fukushima 50 looks at the devastating nuclear reactor failure in Japan. The publicity for this movie screams: “AFTER CHERNOBYL, COMESContinue Reading
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4K UHD Review: Shout Factory’s Weathering With You (Collector’s Edition)
Weathering With You Writer/Director Makoto Shinkai’s follow up to his wildly successful Your Name gets the deluxe treatment by Shout Factory/GKIDS. This Limited Collector’s EditionContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Black Test Car/The Black Report (Collector’s Edition)
Arrow Video brings the bleakest of satires from Yasuzo Masumura to Blu-Ray. Black Test Car and The Black Report are beautifullyContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Graveyard of Honor (Collector’s Edition)
Two Yakuza Films by two Masters. Graveyard of Honor 1975 and 2002 are put together in this great boxset by ArrowContinue Reading
Wotakoi: Love is Hard For Otaku – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
You don’t have to be an Otaku to enjoy the blissful enthusiasm of this Musical Rom-Com. Please pardon the Pulp Fiction clichéContinue Reading
Project Dreams: How to Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Do not let the long title dissuade you… Project Dreams: How to Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar is an unexpected workplace comedy thatContinue Reading
Kakegurui – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Kakegurui one of two films from director Tsutomu Hanabusa. This live-action adaptation of the Manga/Anime series is a smashing success. InContinue Reading
Monster Seafood Wars – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Where Kaiju and Food culture collide is where Monster Seafood Wars makes its happy home. If you’re a fan of Kaiju andContinue Reading
Special Actors – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Special Actors, Director Shinichiro Ueda’s follow up to One Cut of the Dead is all-together different but just as brilliant as hisContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Hiroshima (Arrow Academy)
Largely out of circulation since its first showing in 1953, Hiroshima is a powerful indictment of the devastation inflicted by the atomicContinue Reading