The Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)

Supposedly all the best movies of any given year come out from September to December; the better to campaign for the end-of-year awards that are voted on around that time. In practice, that is simply not true. Tons of great movies come out every year from January to June, even if those films do tend to get overlooked […]

I Did Not Want to Make a War Film

A full-scale invasion found the Kyiv director in a small Bedouin village in the Middle East. It was warm, safe, and unbearably far from home. Once the director had a prophetic dream. She decided to return to Kyiv, still the hostilities were unfolding. Despite the condemnation of relatives and the long journey, she finally managed […]

Tamlyn Tomita, Christopher Sean, Gedde Watanabe, Shannon Tindle, & John Aoshima discuss the joys of Kaiju parenting for Ultraman: Rising

Tamlyn Tomita, Gedde Watanabe, Christopher Sean, and filmmakers Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima join us to discuss Ultraman: Rising. Parenting is one of the toughest challenges any human being could face; now imagine the infant is bigger than a house and can shoot lasers out of their eyes. This chaos is only a portion of […]