One of the great cock-eyed procedurals has to be William Friedkin's 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A. . Co-written with Friedkin by a fo...

Recently, I was doing some laundry and listening to this decent audio adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I . It has Julian G...

A few nights ago, I succumbed to the urge to watch Evil Dead 2 again. I'd been in the mood since last Friday, which, as you remember, w...

Robert Duvall has died at the age of 95. He had a long and illustrious career as one of the greatest actors to come out of the New Hollywood...

That's Japan's prime minister, Takaichi Sanae (on the right), drumming with the South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung. The first s...

The staff of a tabloid find themselves with blood on their hands after exposing a murderess in 1931's Five Star Final . Unremarkably f...

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. I chose to watch The Age of Innocence again, Martin Scorsese's 1993 adaptation of Edith Wharton...

Who wants to talk some more about Wuthering Heights ? The new one, despite everyone complaining about it, is dominating the box office in th...

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone. I was in the middle of a re-watch of Angel a couple years ago when Disney+ in Japan decided to pull it...

I wonder how many times I've seen Fire Walk with Me . That's a question I might've asked myself when I was in high school thre...

I'm having two lines of thought this morning that are converging. I'm thinking about the Epstein files and Gothic fiction. The con...

A beautiful woman is found dead in the hotel room of a famous double act and, fifteen years later, another woman tries to get to the truth...

Yesterday I visited Himeji Castle with my friend and co-worker, Miss Kimura. Himeji Castle is the largest in Japan and most of its current...

I've been listening to an audiobook of Emily Bronte's great 1847 novel Wuthering Heights lately, I suppose because of the Emerald F...

I've been back in a Tarantino mood over the past couple weeks. Is there any other director who has so successfully combined unfiltered a...

Finally, some good news out of Minnesota. There's big news in the world of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 , from just this past week but ...

Last night's season finale of Fallout was really unsatisfying. It was written by Karey Dornetto, who wrote one of the better episodes o...