Kurosawa again makes me want to go live in a big tatami castle and spend my days sitting on the ground.

A good movie for like 105 minutes and then a pretty mediocre one for 15.

I watched The Empire of the Sun on the plane from Manchester to Orlando. It's a good old plane movie.

Wow, what a year. To address the elephant in the room up front: on the macro scale, things are bleak. Electing a fascist for economic reasons still means you elected a fascist. That said fascist proceeded to nominate a clown car full of people I wouldn't t...

It's not "political" when a game or movie isn't a bunch of straight white guys.

Oppenheimer's a tour de force from a character perspective, but I wish that Nolan had just adapted Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb instead.

Through sheer storytelling laziness, it tells us that nothing that came before mattered.