State of Play–Movie Review
State of Play is a solid, professional thriller, sharply written with some fine performances. The Washington Globe is a major metropolitan newspaper with a newsroom full of the usual assortment… Read more »
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind–Anime Review
Technically this wasn’t made by Studio Ghibli but most people think of it as a Studio Ghibli film, since this was the movie that got the studio started. Hayao Miyazaki… Read more »
Shibawanko no Wa no Kokoro
This is interesting. Shibawanko no Wa no Kokoro (Shibawanko’s Japanese Spirit) is a children’s anime in very short segments, only a couple of minutes each. Shibawanko, a serious-minded hard-working talking… Read more »
Tears to Tiara–Episode 1
You know you’re showing your origins as a video game when… …the hero jumps on the back of a giant wild boar, stabs it through the heart with his sword,… Read more »
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Adventureland–Movie Review
Adventureland is being marketed as a a typical teen coming-of-age comedy, and it sort of is that, but it may not be quite what the fans expect. It’s a bit… Read more »
The Problem with 3-D Movies
The movie industry is thrilled with the first-weekend box office success of Monsters vs Aliens and is convinced that 3-D movies of this sort are the wave of the future…. Read more »
Monsters vs. Aliens–Movie Review
I went to see Monsters vs Aliens partly because I had a chance to see it in 3-D, and I wanted to see how good the latest version of the… Read more »
Spirited Away–Anime Review
This is probably the most acclaimed anime ever made. It won the 2002 Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the only foreign-language film ever to do so. It is one of… Read more »
Knowing–Movie Review
Few things are sadder than a good idea badly executed. Knowing seems to have a good idea at its core. If it had a talented writer and a skilled director… Read more »