“This restaurant is small,” one of Blue Sun Palace’s two leads says in the opening scene, “but the food is quite delicious.”
Reframing fairytales from a forgotten character’s perspective isn’t exactly a novel concept anymore, but folklore wouldn’t be folklore if we didn’t keep returning to it.
After fueling speculation that he was retiring, Alex Garland has decided to reenlist.
When they’re in the mine together, the coal surrounding them glints like stars.
Visiting a new country can beguile you in much the same way that seeing a new movie can.
Who by Fire opens with an uncomfortably long shot of a car driving down a two-lane road through the forest, a single note on the soundtrack droning in place of any diegetic sound.
The question isn’t whether the first feature-length fully animated Looney Tunes movie was worth the wait. It’s what took them so long?
Despite having done it sixteen times, Mickey is still afraid to die.
Okiku and the World’s title character has just one request — nay, demand — of the man she meets in the opening scene: “Don’t say my name in a place like this.”
