A 15-year-old girl lives in a base town in the Kanto region. She doesn't go to school and earns pocket money by prostituting herself with her delinquent girl group friends, living day to day. However, one day she gets fed up with the small size of her town and goes out alone to Shinjuku Kabukicho. At night, she is accosted by drunk men and nearly assaulted, but is rescued by a man. The man is an undercover detective on patrol. Thus begins their strange life together.
In Amazon’s new shark flick, The Devil’s Mouth, terrible tourists finally get their comeuppance while two estranged best friends must overcome their petty squabbles to survive as the rest of their party gets chomped one by one. While it’s by no means an Oscar winner, The Devil’s Mouth is good old fashioned shark week carnage with a tourist critical twist, perfect with popcorn, a friend, and a healthy does of schadenfreude.
Audition should be on everyone's list of Greatest Horror Film. So I urge you to give it a watch. Maybe watch the last twenty minutes with your hands in front of your eyes.
Many have interpreted Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon as a dream sequence, but what if the repetitive scenes we are given are not dreams but, a time loop.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
Through three intricately crafted seasons of television, "Hannibal" has managed to make itself into the best incarnation of the self-titled work.
One of the great achievements of this film is its ability to challenge the mind and to force you to try to process information in a different way than you’re used to.
