“Terrace House”: The Kinder, Gentler Japanese Alternative to Reality TV
"Terrace House" improves on the standard reality TV format by affording its cast privacy, freedom, and respect.

Late at night, a flight attendant takes a taxi to the airport, feeling uneasy about the unfamiliar route the driver is taking. Neither the usual path nor the GPS and driver's phone seem to be functioning. Amidst the tension between the suspicious attendant and the driver, something unidentified collides with the taxi. In the dark highway, at night, inside the taxi, with an unknown presence...
"Terrace House" improves on the standard reality TV format by affording its cast privacy, freedom, and respect.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
A lot of us are emotionally impacted by the current pandemic. So, while we’re all stuck here in our homes, it’s great to put on a movie to ease the stress. With that, I made up a small list of some of my favorite feel-good movies.
A family drama is woven with quiet yet powerful forces of words and nature.
Leveraging the cockiness of many of his interview subjects, Theroux created an exposing documentary that shows just how scary these sections of the internet can be.