“I will depict animosity, but that is in order to show the fact that there is something far more precious.” 
-Hayao Miyazaki 
(April 19, 1995)

Man, what a marvel it is to be able to see this in IMAX. Despite having seen this dozens of times, the increased immersion of IMAX offered a stunningly fresh experience. I could feel Hisaishi’s score swelling through my entire body, sweeping me away in its beauty. The enchanting imagery looks better than ever before,…

I’ve been sitting here for the past ten minutes trying to figure out how on earth I can put my experience watching Midnight Cowboy into words. It’s so deeply poignant, representing emotions, memories, and urban struggles in an almost painterly way. The flashbacks are beautifully jarring, giving the hyper-masculine narrative a backbone of sexual guilt and shame. It’s a dirty and tragic film, however, the small, naive persistence the protagonists seem to have in pursuit of their survival makes the film…

The original Nosferatu is an iconic feat in film for a reason. It takes a simple premise, executes it very simply, and yet still oozes with such a distinctly chilling atmosphere. It’s difficult to distinguish where that comes from—it could be Orlock’s piercing gaze, the sense of impending doom, or even just the concept of the horror genre being imagined before us. It’s a fantastic film in its own right, but it scores very high on the remake-ability scale. Eggers takes…

This is a really great time—offbeat dry humor, loud satirical nonsense, and some wonderfully charming space worms. It has Joon-Ho’s signature “laugh-out-loud comedy without diminishing any emotions in a scene,” which is a style that seems to be pushed even further here—even by his standards—enriching the experience into something wildly compelling. Yeah, there could’ve been more world-building death scenes, but the tonal shift into a satirical drama worked all the same and didn’t impact my experience at all. You will…