PEOPLE / 4 WORKS

Brian Tyree Henry

Movies 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseKemp Powers

Really good but why is this a 2-parter?

Movies · 2023

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Movies 2022Bullet TrainDavid Leitch

A surprisingly good time.

Movies · 2022

Bullet Train

Movies 2021Godzilla vs. KongAdam Wingard

Movies · 2021

Godzilla vs. Kong

Movies 2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VersePhil Lord

Movies · 2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Lee Won-jae

Also credited as 이원재

TV 2025Friendly RivalrySong Chae-yun

Was note expecting this to be so much of a thriller, I think it ended up having few too many turns of plan/counter-plan. The end was surprising to me and felt like a movie end, not a TV show end, let alone a Korean TV show. I may look up more from the writer and directory which I think is pretty high praise even if this show didn't entirely hang together.

TV · 2025

Friendly Rivalry

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Rumi Hiiragi

Also credited as 柊瑠美

Movies 2001Spirited AwayHayao Miyazaki

anime · 2001

Spirited Away

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Yukihiro Kotani

Also credited as 小谷幸弘

Movies 2000Battle RoyaleKinji Fukasaku

I'd not seen this movie in 20 years and I remembered is as a campy, gory film with unexpected influence. And that really sells it short, this is a great movie, full stop. There is a reason this movie launched a sub genre of both fiction and video games, it nails so many things. I think what struck me most viewing it again was how the movie has a dozen vignettes we get to see play out. Friendships, rivalries, and cliques all play the same game to much the same result, but the film does a great job of establishing all of this at lighting speed. There is the main through-line with the leads but their classmates get a ton of screen time which lends the entire affair a huge degree of verisimilitude. Oh, also if you can catch the 25th anniversary screening it starts an interview with the writer, Kenta Fukasaku which is really interesting as his dad directed this.

Movies · 2000

Battle Royale

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Zihara Llana

Movies 2019The PlatformGalder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Movies · 2019

The Platform