I'd planned to watch the season finale of Doctor Who last night but for some reason it didn't go up on Disney+ as early as it has...

I was showing Tom Waits' "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You" to students a few days ago because it contained relev...

Last Saturday I went to one of the malls in town, a place called Ario. It has no movie theatre and, unlike American malls, Japanese malls ne...

A few weeks ago, I installed a Skyrim mod that seemed to break the game. I don't even know which mod it was as I tend to install bunche...

An enterprising lad goes from shining shoes to ruling Harlem in 1973's Black Caesar . Fred Williamson gives a charismatic performance ...

In a post-apocalyptic, post-gender world. a young woman follows her destiny as the "seventh son" of a genealogy of ramblers in 2...

Somehow, movies from the 1930s and '40s seem to do a better job portraying the experience of living in a foreign country. One terrific...

The new Doctor Who was decent, if you happen to share Russel T Davies' politics. And I do, but I can't help lament his decision t...

I was in the mood for a Marvel movie last night and I was scrolling through the ones on Disney+ I hadn't seen. I hadn't seen the fir...

Mostly I've been pretty pleased with the neighbourhood around my new apartment. There are lots of restaurants and a movie theatre. I...

What is the central gag of 1987's Spaceballs ? It's Star Wars but everyone's regular schlubs from Canada and New York, mostly...

I finally watched the first episode of House of the Dragon season two last night. It's certainly not as splashy an opening as season ...

I was going to watch Psycho last night because I saw it was on Japanese Amazon Prime but it was some really lousy, unrestored print. Someti...

I forgot all about Doctor Who on Saturday, which says something. But when I finally did watch it on Sunday I was very happily surprised t...

I finally finished watching The Magicians last night, the SyFy series that started in 2015 and ended in 2020. I'd watched every episo...

The new Superman trailer premiered a few days ago. It's supposed to be the first full trailer though it seems like we've already ...

Joe Don Baker has died. He was 89. Like most people of my generation, I know him best, perhaps unfortunately, as the star of Mitchell and t...

For the final three episodes of Andor , which were quite good, the curious decision to bring a new writer to the series, Tom Bissell, was ...

"日本の米" was trending on my X feed this morning, "Japanese uncooked rice". Bad rice crops that began a couple years ago ar...

I found myself watching 1957's Funny Face again on the weekend. What an odd man Fred Astaire was. Such a great dancer, such an odd look...