Daily Archives: May 20, 2025

Movie Review: A 19th Century Japanese “Suicide Squad” fights off the Emperor’s Army — “11 Rebels”

Kazuya Shiraishi’s “11 Rebels” is an often entertaining Samurai thriller that wallows in the conventions and tropes of the genre. The conventions of Samurai thrillers and American Westerns cross-polinated so long ago that it’s hard to remember which culture’s action … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Rage, rage against your married plight, “Sister Midnight”

She’s “mad,” quite mad — articulate, but unfiltered, with few acquired life skills and few options and “Taming of the Shrew” furious over that. He’s the village or neighborhood “idiot,” who “got turned down” by every possible bride he asked, … Continue reading

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