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Watching A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, I found myself desperately wanting to like it. The leads, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, are photogenic and share just the right kind of chemistry. The romantic elements tread a fine line between solemnity ...

Watching A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, I found myself desperately wanting to like it. The leads, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, are photogenic and share just the right kind of chemistry. The romantic elements tread a fine line between solemnity ...

On the one hand, it’s possible to express deep admiration for the world-building and storytelling of Alita: Battle Angel and to offer praise and credit to director Robert Rodriguez and co-writer/co-producer James Cameron for providing a rive...

Japanese director Takashi Miike has spent a career bucking conventions and thumbing his nose at censors. From his first foray into directing in 1991, he has become a lightning rod for controversy – a role he enjoys. His films are bloody and ...

In 2013, at the time of the release of his eleventh feature film, The Wind Rises, legendary Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement. It wasn’t the first time he had done so and, as on previous occasions, it didn’t s...

Castle in the Sky is the third feature film by the Japanese grandmaster of animation, Hayao Miyazaki, and the first movie released by Studio Ghibli. Despite being successful in Japan and cementing Miyazaki’s reputation in the worldwide anim...

There’s real-world AI and there’s movie-world AI. The nexus between the two is small but that hasn’t stopped motion pictures from dabbling with science fiction stories that are still more “fiction” than “science.” With these movies e...

The original Godzilla (or Gojira, as its die-hard adherents refer to it), released in Japan during 1954, officially ushered in the Japanese movie monster craze that would, in due time, become a subgenre all to itself. When the film reached U.S. shor...

Now that Disney has joined Fox and Dreamworks in abandoning traditional animation for that of the 3-D computer generated variety, hand-drawn animation has become an endangered species (although, given the cyclical nature of this sort of thing, it wil...