A Quiet Stillness at the heart of Tokyou: a review of Midnight Diner

Midnight Diner Directed by Joji Matsuoka, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Shotarou Kobayashi Starring Kaoru Kobayashi No. of seasons 5; No. of episodes 50 Producers Hitoshi Endo, Natsuko Mori, Takeshi Moriya, Shogo Ishizuka, Jun Takahashi Running time 25 minutes MBS (2009-2014) & Netflix (2016-2019) Netflix has an absolute jewel in the form of a quiet little drama about …

“How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All?”*: a review of Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Peter Tam Lee Starring Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu Ke Huy Quan Jenny Slate Harry Shum Jr. James Hong Jamie Lee Curtis Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Paul …

A fungus among us: a review of The Last of Us

The Last of Us Created by Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann Based on The Last of Us by Naughty Dog[a] Written by Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann Starring Pedro Pascal Bella Ramsey Nico Parker John Hannah Merle Dandridge Josh Brener Christopher Heyerdahl Bredan Fletcher Anna Tory Gabriel Luna Christine Hakim Nick Offerman Murray Bartlett Lemar …

“The future ain’t what it used to be”: a review of Things to Come

Directed by William Cameron Menzies Written by H. G. Wells Based on The Shape of Things to Come 1933 novel by H. G. Wells Produced by Alexander Korda Starring Raymond Massey Edward Chapman Ralph Richardson Margaretta Scott Cedric Hardwicke Maurice Braddell Derrick De Marney Ann Todd Cinematography Georges Périnal Edited by Charles Crichton Francis D. …

Ibsen would have hated this: a review of M3GAN

Directed by Gerard Johnstone Screenplay by Akela Cooper Story by Akela Cooper & James Wan Produced by Jason Blum & James Wan Starring Allison Williams Jenna Davis Violet McGraw Cinematography Peter McCaffrey Edited by Jeff McEvoy Music by Anthony Willis Production companies Blumhouse Productions, Atomic Monster, Poductions, Divide/Conquer Distributed by Universal Pictures Haunted doll type …

Never have a beef with a bear: a review of The Bear

The Bear Created by Christopher Storer Starring Jeremy Allen White as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, an award-winning New York City chef de cuisine, who returns to his hometown of Chicago to run his late brother Michael’s failing restaurant Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard “Richie” Jerimovich, the de facto manager of the restaurant and Michael’s old best friend …

A devil of a wild time: a review of Wendell and Wild

Directed by Henry Selick Screenplay by Henry Selick & Jordan Peele Based on Wendell & Wild (unpublished) by Henry Selick & Clay McLeod Chapman Produced by Henry Selick, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld Voice cast Keegan-Michael Key as Wendell Jordan Peele as Wild Lyric Ross as Katherine “Kat” Koniqua Elliot Serelle Strickland as Young …