“‘Mortal Kombat’: This Joyless Cosplay Delivers Plenty Of Fatalities But Not Much Else”

File under “how could they possibly fuck this up / oh that’s how.” Continue reading →

Review: Twilight Samurai, 2002, dir. Yoji Yamada

Hiroyuki Sanada may well be the best actor whose name you’ve never heard, but whose face you swear you’ve seen before. Like countless other Americans I suffer from a crippling addiction to television juggernaut Lost, a show that went from character driven, high-concept science fiction recalling Jules Verne to a nebulous and frustrating series of … Continue reading →