Cool monsters are expensive. Zeiram skimps on the story to feast on a live-action critter (or three).
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Of Unknown Origin (1983) is about a man trying to kill a rat. But this clever horror film is really about the lead character’s Ahabian obsession with both his rodent opponent and with his career success.
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Ted Post's The Baby (1973) tells the story of a woman stricken with grief, looking to help an underdeveloped adult man trapped within the warped remains of a nuclear family.
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A definitive ranking of every outfit Honey Kitsuragi wears in Hideakki Anno’s 2004 Cutie Honey adaptation.
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Venus in Furs is jazz on film. It’s about the scenes you don’t show, baby.
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Films about transness and particularly trans women have been around, oh, since the invention of film, but films with trans actors are rarer. Hard Women doesn’t provide a clear history of transness in Germany. It doesn’t give us easy answers, or “representation.” Instead, what Hard Women does is offer a layered reflection of transploitation and trans performance in 1970s Germany.
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A truly once in a lifetime opportunity to see a film straight from Quentin Tarantino’s personal archive. The only E.T. ripoff to spend more time building up to a BMX race than focus on the alien. A frankly painful amount of shots of children absolutely beefing it on their bikes. This is Magic BMX.
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Norman MacLeod’s Alice in Wonderland adaptation brings viewers into an exquisitely rendered world with uncanny visuals.
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Joe Dante’s homoerotic sci-fi comedy Innerspace, captured through its most crazy-ass brain-searing images.
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Flux Gourmet is a full-course meal, a cacophony of artistic triumph and disdain for the wealthy, all wrapped up in a bloody, sensual performance. You don’t have to enjoy the meal, but you can’t argue with the ambience.
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A film that dares to ask the question: Do you game to live or live to game?
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Do we play the game of our lives or does the game play us?
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DOA: Dead or Alive delivers on three fronts: backstory montages, punching, and ass-shots. And to be fair, that's kind of all you need.
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Phillip Ko tackles the video game adaptation genre by… adapting a non-existent game. And that’s not even the craziest part of Techno Warriors.
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Hot, Hotter, Hottest! Let David Snee sing the praises of Carl Weathers’ best action movie performance.
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Weird Wednesday really lived up to its promise with this one. All 71 minutes of this gothic puppet show are without dialogue, scored by hollow wooden flutes, punctuated only by screeches and squawks. This film is a true obscurity, largely the product of Cegavske alone, who filmed it over the course of thirteen years in her apartment.
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Yes, the fifth Resident Evil film is the best one, actually.
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Freeway is an endlessly surprising twist on a familiar story featuring an against-type Reese Witherspoon and a litany of absolutely bonkers choices.
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The Heroic Trio truly does feature a heroic trio of Hong Kong superstars coming together under Johnnie To’s utterly unique vision.
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No irony here: Miami Connection remains a sincere pleasure.
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