Some iconic movie characters should stay in retirement or, in Gordon Gekko’s case, prison. In this sequel to Wall Street, Gekko (Michael Douglas) has done his time for the crime, and has come back to the Street to preach to us about the 2008 crash. He’s a watered-down version of the 1987 Gekko we loved ...
This second in a series of city-centric cinematic pastiches that began in 2006 with Paris, Je t’aime (Rio de Janeiro is reportedly next) features ten sequences by ten directors (plus one more for “transitions”), each focusing on an aspect he or she considers definitive of the Big Apple. Each segment had to be shot in ...
Dear Metropolis (specifically Don Morton), I am an 11-year-old boy and I am absolutely disgusted by the fact that your film reviewer can give a film (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) a bad review WITHOUT EVEN WATCHING THE FILM!!! Think about the film’s target audience Don, not your own intellectual prejudice. I AM going to ...
"I haven't eaten at Bake Crown, so no comment for that, but I've eaten a few burgers at Fatz, and if you can..."
From: The Best of Koenji
"Interesting. I don't remember this movie even opening in the U.S. Must be really bad."
From: Gambit
"trailers for this make it look incredible but too scary for me"
From: Sinister
"I was discussing this with someone the other day. No one in the West is particularly interested in Japan any..."
From: By Way of the Inland Sea
"You aren't even responding to what I commented about. The author makes a false claim about how Richie's was..."
From: By Way of the Inland Sea
Yabusame Festival at the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, by Charles Levie 
Yamamoto Yae in Itabashi, by David M. Weber
Main hall of Meigetsuin. Kamakura. By Jordi Olaria
Buses parked at Tokyo Tower, by Matthew Venz
Going head over heels at the used book fair, west side of Ikebukuro. By Allan Murphy
Shibuya Center guy, by Ricardo Piras
Typical Afternoon in Shimokitazawa, by Lisa Wallin
Reflection of the Sky Tree, by Mance Thompson
Chairlift Silhouette, by Aleisha Riboldi
Sumo Wrestler lifts another wrestler at an outdoor sumo event at Yasukuni Shrine, by David M Weber
People boarding the Shinkansen at Tokyo Station, by Edgar Landeros
A glimpse of Hanami while the sakura gently blow away at Verny Park, Yokosuka, overlooking the Japanese and US Navy ships, Jessica Paje
I chuckle at those who gush that this vapid, morally idiotic, unabashedly mindless mess is the “best Transformers movie yet!” There was a good one? It does have a marginally more cohesive plot than T2 (hardly difficult), starting with the intriguing idea that one of the Apollo missions was actually to check out an alien ...