There are few constants in life: death and taxes; the swelling and sighing of the tides; and the continual expansion of the Criterion Collection, perhaps the world’s greatest purveyor of boutique cinema releases. On a […]
The schlock-meisters at Cannon Group actually put out a good film when they released Runaway Train in 1985. Not that I don’t absolutely love their weirdo camp films like Masters of the Universe (shirtless Dolph […]
If you’ve never seen an Akira Kurosawa film before, the first thing that strikes you about Dreams (1990) is its limpid, near incandescent beauty. A reconstruction of eight of Kurosawa’s real-life dreams, the film takes […]
A lone samurai, heavy but forbidding, pushes a wobbly cart down a dusty road. He approaches a vendor, rolling his wares past, who tips his hat. He spies, inside the Samurai’s cart, an infant boy. […]
Hiroyuki Sanada may not be a household name in the States, but he’s definitely recognizable. A bad guy in Rush Hour 3, another bad guy in Wolverine, an ambiguously sinister character in 47 Ronin, and […]
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