Can one be unhappy on Happiness Road? The answer is both complicated and simple, depending on who you ask in this movie. The protagonist’s mother (Liao Hui-Jen) would… more
About 5 years ago, I was introduced to the comic Y: The Last Man (Y:TLM) by Bryan K. Vaughn. And though I was about 6 years late to… more
Alex Murphy can’t die. Or, at least, Hollywood won’t let him. The cyborg law enforcer with sci-fi’s most prominent lips will be rebirthed once again, this time by… more
It was somewhere in the middle of Ant-Man and the Wasp that I finally understood why the first film featuring our size-altering superhero had its own avid following…. more
Wes Anderson, the senpai of symmetry and enabler of all who disproportionately fuss over proportions, has done it again with his latest movie, Isle of Dogs. The shots… more
The thing with a broken heart is that whether we like to admit it or not, we have all experienced it one way or another. Personally, my most… more
It was roughly 30 minutes into playing the new God of War when I thought to myself: “Wow, this feels like I’m playing my father.” It is the… more
One of the standout moments in Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World is during a bombing raid. As protagonist Suzu Urano (Rena Nonen) stares at the… more
I was a 17 years old, a misshapen mass of acne and awkwardness, when I first watched The Incredibles. There were explosions, but the biggest ones didn’t happen… more
Some movies evolve the more times you watch it. When I first saw The Incredibles, it was a fun, thrilling, touching, exciting action adventure starring a family of… more