Film / Reviews Mar 3, 2022
‘The Last 10 Years’: Keep a hanky handy for this weepy romance
by James Hadfield
Michihito Fujii’s splashy terminal illness drama can’t help succumbing to the usual genre tropes.
Film / Reviews Apr 1, 2021
‘Signal The Movie Cold Case Investigation Unit’: Obvious but with plenty of panache
by Mark Schilling
This cop thriller based on a 2018 Fuji TV series may be gimmicky, but it delivers in the action department.
Film / Reviews Feb 1, 2017
'The 100th Love With You': Happily stuck in a time-travel groove
by Mark Schilling
Time travel is and will forever be a fantasy, physicists say. But fantasies can tell us more about human longings and dreams than dull facts, can they not? Despite doubting science types, time-travel-themed films have long constituted a thriving, sub-genre in Japan, as they ...