“Zetsubou-sensei” Osamu Dazai was truly chosen to revive the dying isekai genre! And of course, Hiroshi Kamiya voices the main character—no one else could have done it so brilliantly. The result is one of the most entertaining series of the season, and we finally get the canonization of Truck-kun and its place in…

The western formula cannot be overlooked. A mysterious stranger in a town where the law is interpreted by its protectors, an inevitable confrontation, a helpful friend, the expulsion of the intruder beyond the town's borders, a buildup of injustice, and a final reckoning. The only difference is that the stranger…

In a routine way, the screenplay and directing only summarise the true story of a fragile girl’s fall into the spider web of a manipulative swine who took her to a psychological low point. The performance of the young actress Mireia Oriol makes I’m Nevenka a powerful film. Mireia deserves an award for her poignant…

François Ozon and his enchanting film narrative with exceptionally tender tragicomedy. Superbly cast atypical characters in a peculiar story. The gradual uncovering of their past, which explains their relationships and, at the same time, shakes up their personal stories with absurd twists in the manner of Hitchcock. A…

Everything is pretty much the same, Alexandre Aja continues to waste his talent on contrived scripts. The absurd premise predictably evolves towards a single meaningful non-absurd denouement. This then arrives, relatively timely, so that for a while the film seems to build to a rather chilling ending on top of it. But…

"Witches are persons who make a formal pact with the devil and accept him as their lord. In return, he grants them the power to perform various supernatural things." Yes, but what to do with them in times when it's illegal to verify if: "The darker the whore, the brighter the flame."? We've over-obliged ourselves. A…

"We'll catch him in the act. We'll get him, Watson! We'll get him! I swore long ago that he would flutter in our net like his poor, innocent butterflies. Then the pin, the box, and the tag to adorn our collection at Baker Street." A Dartmoor canine legend in a slightly outdated TV adaptation with subtle deviations…

Fights, feasts, and maybe something more intimate. The first is passable. Of course, for a lot of money. The second, however, isn’t served to viewers expecting an entertaining monster movie that hasn’t rolled off the assembly line and comes with at least a pinch of script invention. The third, however, is there.…

The Hunt for Red Boy. Both investigation threads are so suspenseful that Harmon Rabb wouldn’t even have time to shave, Admiral Stannis Dillane is so strict that in a game of Battleship, you’d willingly reveal all your positions at the start, and the occasional detours into romantic and family relationships don’t get…

With the weakness of the crime storyline, one wonders if it wouldn’t have been better to make it a gender-unusual buddy movie carried by David Novotný (it’s like he didn’t even change outfits from The Case of the Deceased Dead).