A Boy and His Samurai (Chonmage Purin/ちょんまげぷりん) follows a tried-and-true comedic formula: take someone from the past, stick them in the future, and laugh al...

Director Jonathan English leads the charge in Ironclad, an earnest action flick that aims to blend historical gravitas with gruesome battle damage. But once...

Last December I deemed Catherine Breillat’s postmodern Bluebeard one of my favorite films of the year. So I was eager to see what the quirky French director w...

I had such high hopes. Between Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day being the leads, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Aniston the support...

A mother chimp cradles her baby in her arms. The child, named by caretakers as Nim, has been selected for an experiment to see if a chimp could learn sign l...

Monte Carlo is a good-natured throwback to romantic comedies that took place in exotic locations for no reason other than for escapism. Here is a film that’s pu...

I really like that poster. The sky blue with the alternating thick/thin sans serif font and the jarringly bright yellow, drawing your eye to it and down t...

Kicking off the New York Asian Film Festival 2011 is multimedia artist Yoshimasa Ishibashi's debut feature film Milocrorze: A Love Story, a psychedelic jour...