Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now opens in Saigon in 1968. Army captain and special intelligence representative Benjamin Willard is holed up in a hotel space, greatly inebriateded and desperate to obtain back into action. He has finished one trip of responsibility in Vietnam, just to go...
American History X

American History X

American History X, written by David McKenna and directed by Tony Kaye (also the cinematographer), is an extremely refined discussion of an ugly subject: the rhetoric of hate. The great acting of Edward Norton and Edward Furlong extricates the movie from a cliché...
A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (played by Russell Crowe in the film) is a kid prodigy. While other boys his age are playing childhood video games, John is reading E.T. Bell’s Men of Mathematics. Finding out more in the house than he does at school, the young lad has the...
Wolf Girl & Black Prince

Wolf Girl & Black Prince

Girls choose bad, abusive people, while relegating good, decent ones to the feared “good friend zone”: A misogynistic lie or the cold, difficult fact? Ryuichi Hiroki’s “Wolf Girl and Black Prince” appears to say the latter, beginning with...
We Were There

We Were There

Nanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her very first year. Right away on her very first day however, she ends up being the victim of a practical joke by the school’s most popular man, Motoharu Yano, who coincidentally likewise winds up in her class....