I said it yesterday, sort of, and I’ll say it again today: what a year we’re having for modern master directors! Check out the trailer for Andrey Zvyagintsev’s return to cinema, M…

In 1997, Capcom did something amazing. They hired the father of the modern zombie film, George A. Romero, to direct a 30-second Japanese TV commercial for the launch of the Resident Evil 2 video ga…

It’s finally here! Check out the first full length trailer for Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, and Hidetaka Yoshioka. There’s still teas…

Here’s the news I needed to hear today!! The first full trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) drop on Tuesday, September 8th at 9:55 a.m. on YouTube at both @OfficialTohoMovie and @GodzillaO…

Every once in a while a film really catches me off guard. I walked into Tony (2026), Matt Johnson’s Anthony Bourdain biopic, braced for something standard, but what I got was so much more. Se…

Exciting news for Godzilla fans! On November 21, 2026, the Music Institute of Chicago will feature a concert of Akira Ifukube’s Godzilla music performed by the pianists Reiko Yamada and Patri…

I’ve found myself drawn to David Lynch’s work and interviews the past couple of weeks. I don’t know exactly why, but I saw someone’s post online about the same Lynchian phen…

I’m a big fan of vintage book cover art and, from time to time, I can’t help but pick up a book due to that artwork. Many of these books I’ve yet to read and have often never hear…

Twenty years ago, Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga Tekkonkinkreet was brought to life as a feature-length anime on the big screen. It was a fiery CG-cel hybrid animation unlike anything seen before it. I re…

Here is another TIFF 2026 trailer that has my attention! Check out the creeping environmental folk horror happenings in this trailer for Iranian Kurdish auteur director Bahman Ghobadi’s Trees…

To say I’m excited about seeing this movie would be the understatement of the year. If you have yet to see the trailer for director Na Hong-jin’s (The Wailing) long-awaited new film &#8…

I’ve been collecting a lot of comics recently. I have stacks and stacks of books I’ve yet to read. Often, it takes me days to read an entire issue. There are exceptions though. One of t…

For two decades, author Erik Homenick has been deeply immersed in the life and work of composer Akira Ifukube. Erik grew up a Godzilla fan and loving Ifukube’s iconic music for those films, b…

There is a scene in the middle of Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) where Frank Castle suddenly bursts into the room and just starts unloading his gun at someone. It’s played with such ferocit…

I vividly remember watching Shin Godzilla for the first time. Everything about it gripped me. The camera work. The music. The editing. The FX. The story. The Godzilla design. It was absolutely unex…

A few weeks ago I watched Hiroshi Inagaki’s The Rickshaw Man (1958) for the first time. One of the many aspects of that film that I fell in love with was the score by composter Ikuma Dan. It&…

Director Abbas Kiarostami is quoted as saying “I prefer the poetry of life to the prose of cinema.” Like poetry, his films are often filled with silences and ambiguous moments that invite question …

Great news! Godzilla Minus One writer/director Takashi Yamazaki begins work on his next Godzilla movie August 30, 2025, in Tsukubamirai City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and they’re casting extras! T…

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A few quick thoughts about the new Marvel movie Thunderbolts, directed by Jake Schreier. This was a 10 out of 10 movie for me. It’s one of the best Marvel movies to come along since the origi…

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I’ve thought of Director Abbas Kiarostami’s film Taste of Cherry constantly since watching it last week. The film follows a suicidal Iranian man, Mr. Badii, played perfectly by Homayoun…

I rewatched Hirokazu Koreeda film Broker over the weekend. This is a heartfelt story about abandonment and breaking the cycle. It’s a story about trust and family. Rejection. Failure. Regret.…

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Over the past year, I’ve found myself drawn back into exploring the world of comics and manga. After watching Tekkonkinkreet, an incredible anime based on the manga by Taiyo Matsumoto and dir…

I watched Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk a few night ago on 4K Blu-ray. The picture and the sound were always incredible but it really knocked my socks off in 4K. (And I was wearing some super t…

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