Every ghost they’ve ever caught is about to be unleashed.
Every ghost they’ve ever caught is about to be unleashed.
A not despicable reprise of the same material, juvenile yet jaded, profoundly lazy and lackadaisical, sufficiently disdainful, even, to aim an occasional joke over the heads of the rubes (something about "my Laura Antonelli tapes"). It is least despicable when least jaded and lazy: Rick Moranis's ineptness as a courtroom …
Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant “ghost cat” and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu’s odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the …
Writer-director Jim Jarmusch caters to the craving for originality at all costs. The hero is a black hit man (Forest Whitaker) who religiously reads Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (sometimes he reads passages of it to us right out loud: "Every day without fail one should consider himself as …
Patima Tungpuchayakul has, to her great credit, made it her mission to find and rescue the thousands of men essentially kidnapped and enslaved by the Thai fishing industry. “Essentially” is a necessary qualifier here, because how exactly the men wind up on the boats — where they are trapped and …
Take-it-on-faith premise: a power surge transports a dying homicidal maniac into an afterlife as a computer virus. A horror film, all right, especially for anyone not wild about computer animation. With Karen Allen and Chris Mulkey; directed by Rachel Talalay.
A hot mess of a philosophical cyber-thriller. The hot is provided by Scarlett Johansson as a government agent (but corporate creation) built from a human brain and a synthetic body, the latter often on quasi-display in a shimmering sort of shell casing that she only occasionally uses as digital camouflage. …
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model has drawn the attention of Public Security Section 9, a unit specializing in counter cyber-terrorism. With none of the victims' families pressing charges, suspicions …
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model has drawn the attention of Public Security Section 9, a unit specializing in counter cyber-terrorism. With none of the victims' families pressing charges, suspicions …
Mamoru Oshii's cult cyberpunk anime classic.