Usually when I review a boxset of films, I’ll refer to it as a Home Version of a Film Festival. When it comes to V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal, watching these nine films at home on your TV is the proper way to have a festival. Back in the late ’80s, Japanese cinema culture was … Read more
As more people turn to streaming from the comfort of their couch-pits, the small screen landscape has ballooned and splintered in a thousand directions. The era of monocultural appointment TV—the kind that made Game of Thrones (at its peak) or Lost before it into national talking points—has faded into the
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