I have been living in Japan for about three years and I am very much in love with this country’s culture. In my time here, I have tried to pick up various Japanese traditional crafts – one of them includes playing the shamisen, which is a three-stringed guitar-like instrument. I have been practicing the shamisen…
It’s November. It’s Oscar/Christmas blockbuster season. Let’s just get right to it, shall we? Interstellar (2014) The Plot: Environmental apocalypses: the best kind (?). As a terrible blight continues to wipe out crops across the world, scientists (mainly Michael Caine) realize that the earth is done for. That doesn’t necessarily mean that humanity has to…
The problem with Oscar movies is that they are incredibly hyped up by virtue of critical acclaim, and then, if the movie isn’t quite as great as the nominations imply, that can be devastating to how the viewer takes the movie. This wasn’t so much an issue with, say, Gravity or 12 Years a Slave or American…
Rooster Illusion is nothing if not a paragon of good taste and professional integrity. As such, when we make promises, we keep them, damn it. This introduction, like all my introductions, is serving a few different purposes. First, it is literally defining my critical values. Second, it is cleverly raising some of the important themes…
The summer is over. Not in any astrological sense, of course, but the spirit of the summer has passed. Essentially, playtime’s over. It’s high time to sober up, fly straight, focus on the gritty things, and watch heavy movies. To provide something of a preview for a review, as if that’s necessary, here’s a brief…
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