Film Review Living (2023) The great Bill Nighy is masterful in a strangely simplified adaptation of "Ikiru."
On Movies & Media Ran, an Akira Kurosawa Masterpiece: On Hulu for Free Ran was the first Japanese movie I ever saw, and it kindled an appetite not just for more Kurosawa, but films of greater visual splendour than I'd was accustomed to seeing. Wouldn't you know, just when I wanted to pick up the Criterion edition, it went
On Movies & Media Opus on "Ikiru" I was going to just surrender blogging for the rest of the day, due to the loss of Altman, but then I discovered that Opus, one of my daily blog stops, has just published a review of Kurosawa's Ikiru, another one of my favorites, and a film that
On Movies & Media Pleased by Pride and Prejudice I had almost given up on the big screen this holiday season. Nothing's living up to the hype. Nothing's making me feel nine bucks was well invested. Well, here's one that does. Rosamund Pike, with very few lines, almost steals Pride and Prejudice from
