One of the things that we’d come to expect from the Alamo Drafthouse in its early days were excellent promotional screenings for horror and other genre flicks. There was something about having to walk through a room full of flies on the way to watch Amityville, or something like it. Founder Tim League bought a box of fly eggs for the occassion and waited too long to open the box. They’d all hatched so he literally opened a sealed box of live flies in a close room and it was hilariously catastrophic. Or, there was the time a handful of fans were buried then watched Buried. As the franchise grew in size those kind of diminished or fell to the wayside but tomorrow in…
Min Bahadur Bham’s sophomore feature explores polyandry, tradition, and agency set against the unforgiving landscapes of the Himalayas.
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in director Greg Berlanti’s flighty comedy.
A “wacky” high-school romance series, now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Hiding your humanity is a tough job when you’re surrounded by demons in a new series, now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Summer 2024 began Thursday, June 20, which also marked the launch of Anime Summer 2024, and a subsequent onslaught of shows. In the U.S., where I reside, I have subscriptions to Crunchyroll, which simulcasts many shows that debut on Japanese television networks weekly (29 are due this summer), as well as Netflix, which produces a number of its own shows and tends to drop entire seasons at once. By no means am I an expert on anime, but I am an enthusiast. What I bring here are short reviews of the first season of shows that I am sampling; I’ll leave the second seasons alone for now. A few shows will be added to my watchlist, but after 20 years of sampling, and sometimes devotedly…
Derek takes a job at a tech firm, developing an AI sex doll named Susan. As he explores the boundaries of desire, pleasure, and pain with Susan, he confronts profound questions about humanity in an uncertain future.
An apocalyptic mystery action-thriller defies. What more do you need?
Trapped between a madman seeking revenge and a skin-stealing monster, a married couple must find the strength to fight and make it out of the woods alive.