What happens when someone with no political acumen and poor education but with a reputation for honesty enters the arena of American polit...

Lots of couples have troubled relationships, few are so lucky to have their woes set to music by Tom Waits. It leads to the dreamy atmosph...

Happy Thanksgiving from Japan, everyone, where most people haven't heard of it. Of course, it's actually now Friday here, and most p...

Jim Abrahams passed away at the age of 80 on Tuesday. Best known for directing absurdist comedies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun , Abraha...

I watched the finale of Ally McBeal season one a few days ago and who should I see but Bob Gunton. I've also been watching Daredevil s...

As much as I like the Coen Brothers, I hadn't seen 1987's Raising Arizona in a very long time, not since the early '90s, I th...

I watched Captain America: Civil War , the first time I'd seen it since I saw it in the theatre when it came out in 2016. Now that the...

A woman is murdered and police are frustrated to find that no two people can offer the same account of her personality. 1950's The Wom...

Star Trek fans wanting to see William Shatner return to the role of James T. Kirk finally got their wish a few days ago with the release of...

Rock Paper Scissors, or Jan-ken , is really important among children in Japan. It's frequently played to make decisions. This morning I ...

It has stars, fabulous international locations, and all the bare bones of a movie. But 1957's Interpol , aka Pickup Alley , hardly fee...

Yesterday came the news that Japan has fallen even further from its already low ranking in English proficiency . It ranks 92 out of a list o...

A team of researchers face off against cgi sharks in 1999's Deep Blue Sea . If you're looking for an effective shark horror movie,...

I couldn't sleep a few nights ago and found myself watching Naruse Miko's final film, 1967's Scattered Clouds . I hadn't s...

A wild grizzly starts eating people but has cute cubs in 1999's Wild Grizzly , an unmistakably made-for-TV movie set in a beautiful mo...

I read the newest Sirenia Digest to-day, which contains a new series of vignettes by Caitlin R. Kiernan called "THE ULTRAVIOLET ALPHA...

Peter Lorre immigrates to America only to find remarkably evil luck in 1941's The Face Behind the Mask . His luck is so bad as to defy c...

Above is the only picture on my Instagram so far, real_setsuled . It's a weasel I saw on my way to work recently. "Real" bec...

Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley team up to fight a town of white haired kids in 1995's Villageof the Damned , John Carpenter's...

Gloria Grahame is trapped in an extraordinarily tangled web of abuse and misogyny in 1954's Human Desire . Fritz Lang directed this fi...