Here are our latest reviews of films for home viewing.
Pre-2024 Film Reviews
Blow the Night (1983)
- Excerpt: “Blow the Night” is not an easy or cleanly satisfying movie. It is messy, noisy, unpleasant, occasionally crude and often frustrating. Nevertheless, it is also a fascinating work, both as a delinquent drama and as a snapshot of early 1980s Japanese youth culture. Chusei Sone does not romanticize Namie’s world, but he does not simply condemn it either
The Garden of Eden (1928)
Kidnaping Blues (1982)
- Excerpt: “Kidnaping Blues” is a weird movie, and it is not exactly a good one, or even interesting for that matter, while the fact that it has not aged well is painfully obvious. As a tour throughout Japan and its everyday leisures, however, there is definitely a trait here, while by the end, many viewers will probably start thinking if the movie actually inspired Takeshi Kitano to shoot “Kikujiro”.
Night Journey (1977)
- Excerpt: “Night Journey” is an interesting movie, particularly through the way the female protagonist is implemented as the medium of various, multileveled comments. The narrative, however, demands much patience, in an aspect that eventually faults the overall result significantly.
Postal (2007)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Watched with an open heart and a steeled stomach, though, Postal is stranger and more interesting than its reputation suggests: a baseline-competent piece of 2007 button-pushing comic violence and irreverence with a punk spirit.
Smile (2022)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: For all that, Smile works because Finn is a genuinely gifted horror craftsman even when he isn’t an original one. Smile’s dread is sustained across its entire, logy runtime.
Y Tu Mamá También (2002)
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