Tag: River

  • River Review: A Laugh-Out-Loud Time Loop Workplace Comedy [Fantasia Fest 2023]

    River Review: A Laugh-Out-Loud Time Loop Workplace Comedy [Fantasia Fest 2023]

    Japanese filmmaker Junta Yamaguchi follows his buzzy debut “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes” with another winning time-loop comedy, the more succinctly titled “River.” Yamaguchi chooses Kyoto’s picturesque Fujiya Inn as his backdrop, thriving off the meditative aesthetics of a rushing river that soothingly gurgles through a serene hotel. It’s so calming and comforting, much like…

  • Best Willem Dafoe Movies to Watch Before ‘Inside’

    Best Willem Dafoe Movies to Watch Before ‘Inside’

    Willem Dafoe is one of the most consistently engaging, versatile, and respectable actors in the film industry since the 1980s, and its amazing to look at his incredible output over the entirety of his career. In 2021 alone, Dafoe appeared in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the arthouse thriller Siberia, Wes Anderson’s latest ensemble dramedy The…

  • Maui Film Festival Plans Safe Return With Screenings and Honorees

    Maui Film Festival Plans Safe Return With Screenings and Honorees

    Alan Brain’s 2021 award-winning “The Rumba Kings” and Jace Panebianco’s “Broken Molds” will be among the films showcased at the Maui Film Festival, which will accommodate guests in an open-air, pod-style seating, from Nov. 17-21 at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului. There are 13 premieres among the features in the lineup.Even though…