those towels aren’t going to fold themselves. InThe Boy and the Heron, the grief-stricken boy Mahito spends part of his sojourn in the other world catching and cleaning fish alongside a butch sailor (who, like many of the people he encounters, corresponds to someone from his regular...
Clark is lured into the rear carriage of the train by one of Morel’s thugs posing as a railroad detective, with the intention of killing him, but the pair are followed by a stranger on the train, a good-natured fighter who takes it upon himself to protect Clark. During the fight that...
Aerial train. Sandal The universe of eighty-eight keys The Rain of Time, the Last War Sunflower Nadir Rest in Peace/Rip White Landscape Still-GATE The empty rabbit. MOON-VINE Shut up. Flowers and memories Summer Anchor Mid-Summer and the boy's war on the Tiano River Unfinished Timer The...
The forest animals, played by people in mascot costumes, each have their idiosyncrasies and wiles, and a big part of the film consists of Kayak learning to play them off each other, getting traps to work and setting up Rube Goldberg-like chain reactions. (Hundreds of Beaversis quietly one ...
Chapter Titles That Sound Like Radiohead Tracks:“Heavier Than Water” (Chapter Six); “Strange Collision” (Chapter Seven); “High-Line Smash-Up” (Chapter Twelve) Best Cliffhanger:The cliffhangers in this are mostly pretty familiar–a number of collapsing and exploding buildings and various veh...
“immovable mind”), is transformed into a creature of rage, unable to control himself as he seeks out the muggers whom he assumes are the killers. (There is a minor plot point that turns up frequently in martial arts movies, and which has some basis in reality: Casey tracks down the ...