One of the reasons for skepticism had been whether Challengers as a film would do justice to the sport itself. Call me a stickler, but I do like movies where the thematic attributes of the story intermingle as seamlessly as possible with the sports aspect of it all. It gives it an air of greatness beyond just maintaining fidelity to the game. But that's also what contributes to the best aspects of the film itself.

The push-and-pull nature of tennis,…

𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐨
𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 - 𝐍𝐚𝐨𝐤𝐢 𝐔𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐰𝐚, 𝐎𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮 𝐓𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐚
𝐍𝐨. 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 - 𝟖
𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝟓𝟓 - 𝟔𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝟕𝟏 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡)
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 - 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐱

It is not a coincidence that every year, an anime just makes my entire year of media consumption all the more worthwhile. Perhaps because I am not an avid consumer of anime and thus only choose the ones that get the highest recommendations from my peers.

Pluto is…

Director Kenji Tanigaki brings forth the brutality and inventiveness of both Donnie Yen and Jackie Chan starters to create one of the finest choreographed action films of the year. It lacks perhaps the sheer speed of Gareth Evans' Raid, but it makes up for pure escalating insanity, culminating in a glorious five way acrobatic fight sequence of crunching bones and twisted limbs. It's sole weakness is in actually giving it's plot weightage, rather than using it simply as a mechanism…

Like Saronski's debut "Pig", how "The Death of Robin Hood" begins - unflinching, violent, brutal - isn't how it continues. From subversive visceral action to subversive melancholic interrogation, the transition is as smooth as the change in aspect ratio Saronski utilizes to depict visual change. But the interrogation over the nature of redemption of a violent outlaw in a place resembling heaven, with the ghosts of the past about to haunt him, only for Saronski to deny that genre catharsis,…

The story of a deaf knight and a siren of myth attracted to each other. She because he is unaffected by her scream, he because she is a mythological creature adorned with treasure. What occurs in Alberto Mielgo's 18 minute short with an almost manic camera work moving in and out of focus, is the deconstruction of myths and reconstructing it through a far violent and haunting lens. The snatching of the treasure is eerily reminiscent of the snatching of…