From Up on Poppy HillMovies DVD Release Date: September 3, 2013Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 2013Rating: PG for mild thematic elements and some incidental smoking imagesGenre: DramaRun Time: 91...
Movies from Film Forum, 09/26/02Spirited Away is being presented across the U.S. by Walt Disney Studios, but it is not in any way a typical Disney film. Parents should be cautioned that while it looks...
Movies from Film Forum, 03/21/02The other animated feature worth catching this month is for grownups only, and it may prove harder to find. Metropolis is a futuristic sci-fi epic that recalls Blade...
Director and producer Brett Ratner (“X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Horrible Bosses,” “The Revenant”) recently accused movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes of ruining Hollywood.
“The...
What all this lavish praise doesn’t explain is why, precisely, the hand-drawn aesthetic matters for the particular story being told
Sunao Katabuchi’s “In This Corner of the World” centers on Suzo Urano, a teenage girl growing up in the small Japanese town of Kure in 1933.
When Suzo is married to a soldier...
PaddingtonThe Wicker Manhorrornicole kidmanthe wizard of ozwilly wonka & the chocolate factory To you, “Paddington” may seem like another fuzzy kiddie movie, but as someone who watched...
Paradise Lost The Little Mermaid opened nationally in theaters 25 years ago Monday (Nov. 17). It proved to be a pretty significant day in the annals of animated filmdom, marking not just the beginning...
DramaComedyRomanceWarAnimation We hope this review was both interesting and useful. Please share it with family and friends who would benefit from it as well.Movie ReviewHe simply wanted to fly. As a...
Drama We hope this review was both interesting and useful. Please share it with family and friends who would benefit from it as well.Movie ReviewIn 1951, a young, iconoclastic writer named Jack Kerouac...
DramaSci-Fi/FantasyKidsAnimation We hope this review was both interesting and useful. Please share it with family and friends who would benefit from it as well.Movie ReviewFrom Arrietty's point of view,...
Big RobBurnin' UpOh My G—!Movies Some time ago, we asked readers what they thought about watching "mindless entertainment," watching movies just for the sheer entertainment value.There were...
In Woody Allen’s semi-unbearable new item “Midnight in Paris,” the businessman who is about to become the father-in-law of the hero (Owen Wilson) is all but stamped “evil Republican.”...
With elements of “Ben-Hur,” “Star Wars” and the King Arthur legend, the Japanese anime epic “Tales from Earthsea” is derivative but potent. My review is up.]]>
Title of the film is taken from the poetic line; “Le vent se lève!… Il faut tenter de vivre! (“The wind rises!… We must try to live!”).” — Paul Valéry,...
Hiyao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is one among several of his films that has won a space in westerners’ hearts. Everyone outside of the Radical Traditionalist community whom...
I liked the big-screen version of “On the Road,” one of my favorite college reads, although the book is a much more mesmerizing experience. My review is up.]]>
PonyoMovies DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009 Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 2009Rating: GGenre: Animation, Fantasy, Kids/FamilyRun Time: 100 min. Director: ...
The new 70th anniversary edition of The Wizard of Oz is so sharp and detailed you can see Judy Garland has acne under her makeup. Who says technology doesn’t bring us exciting new wonders? Check...
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