"The power of cinema isn't in the explainable, but in the strange and inexplicable."
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
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Last Breath 2025
Last Breath is a dramatic action movie based on a documentary which is based on a real life diving disaster. Deep Sea diving can be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, with countless harrowing stories emerging from the disasters that befall those carrying out the work. So, what better story to use for a thrilling rescue mission movie!
For a movie about a dramatic underwater disaster, however, I found much of the early film coasted by with…
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Cute Devil 1982
Obayashi tries his hand at a made-for-TV movie, and in typical Obayashi fashion, he goes all guns blazing. This is a TV-Movie in name only, with the production, style and filmmaking techniques on display all being emblematic of Obayashi as a director. Cute Devil feels like a spiritual successor to House, and it’s great stuff.
Had someone asked me ahead of time which early Obayashi flick I would’ve put money being on a TV film, it would have been the…
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No Other Land 2024
Sometimes film transcends the purpose of being entertainment or telling a fantastical story that whisks you off to another reality. Sometimes film has a greater purpose, becoming a vessel to tell a far more important narrative. No Other Land is one of these films, a documentary which helps to expose the many inhumane crimes that are endured by the Palestinian people, simply for being Palestinian. Documentarian Basel Adra is a young man who trained in law. A young man with…
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Mickey 17 2025
I remember coming out of seeing Everything, Everywhere All At Once in the cinema and being wowed in a way no movie had managed in some time. Occasionally a film is so unique, off the wall and mind-bendingly absurd that it feels like a breath of fresh air in a landscape dominated by reboots, remakes, sequels and an industry obsessed with franchises. With Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 I felt that same sensation about being somewhat reassured about the movie industry…
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