Just a World Away

Favorite Movie of the Week Wolf Children (2012) Wolf Children is Mamoru Hosoda’s third original movie, after The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars. It follows Hana, a…

Favorite Movies of the Week The Hunt (2012) I didn’t know anything about this movie before I watched it except that it was a critically acclaimed Danish movie starring Mads…

Death Note is about a Seattle high-school student, Light Turner, who finds a notebook (the titular Death Note) that gives its owner the ability to kill people simply by writing…

Favorite Movie of the Week Dhobi Ghat (2010) Dhobi Ghat follows the life of four interconnected people living in Mumbai. Shai (Monica Dogra) is a banker on sabbatical working on…

I usually order the movies I review in descending order of how good I think they were. Unlike most weeks, this week’s movies were all really good, so take this…

Favorite Movie of the Week Summer Wars (2009) Summer Wars is the second movie by Mamoru Hosoda of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time fame. I wasn’t expecting it to…

Favorite Movie of the Week Your Name (2016) We’ve been working up to watching Your Name by watching all of Makoto Shinkai’s other movies first, and we’ve finally watched all…

Favorite Movie of the Week Léon: The Professional (1994) Unlike the rest of this week’s movies, I’ve watched Léon before so I feel slightly bad about giving it the favorite…

Favorite Movie of the Week No Way Out (1987) Navy officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) gets a new job as one of the aides of Secretary of Defense David Brice…

Favorite Movie of the Week Set It Off (1996) Frankie Sutton is fired from her job as a bank teller after her bank is robbed by someone who she happened…