Tales from the Backlog: Vomas on 1970
I have far too many unwatched movies on my shelves. Follow me as I attempt…
Tales from the Dark Age: The Rising Sun
If you really want to disprove the theory of the Dark Age Animation, just look…
Year of the Month – EARLY SPRING
Dozens of white shirts depart the homes of husbands, dissatisfied wives, to return to work,…
The Solute Record Record Club: Haley Ioppini on Utada Hikaru’s DEEP RIVER
How do you follow up the fastest-selling album of all time? This is where Utada…
Year of the Month: Quinn Bailey on JU-ON
There’s a certain degree of ambiguity that writing a book or short story allows you,…
Tax & Order: Special Investigators’ Unit: Caitlin Casiello on A TAXING WOMAN
My favorite scene in Itami Jūzō’s action-comedy crowdpleaser A Taxing Woman (マルサの女, or Marusa no…
Caitlin Casiello on Nagisa Oshima’s SING A SONG OF SEX and the Question of Rape, Fantasy, and Politics
Content warning: This post contains discussions of rape; the film contains explicit scenes of rape…
Year of the Month – Early Summer
The plot of Early Summer can be boiled down to about a paragraph. The Mamiya family…
Year of the Month: Haley Ioppini on KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE
Kiki’s Delivery Service is a movie I will always associate with change. I first saw…
Year of the Month: Leo Noboru Lima on THE LIFE OF OHARU
All throughout The Life of Oharu, I couldn’t stop thinking about the way Kenji Mizoguchi…