There will be those who deride Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century as pretentious and overly-artsy. Luckily, I am also pretentious and overly-artsy, and therefore I adored it. Apichatpong’s parents were both doctors, and this film is his tribute to them. It is accordingly divided into a feminine and a masculine half: the first part, […]

Even by the generous standards of the martial arts genre, the new Tony Jaa vehicle The Protector has an extremely silly plot: Kham, as a young man, is trained in the traditional style of fighting that his villagers have used for centuries to protect their royal elephants. When his aged father attempts to meet the […]

Author’s note, February 2017: My God, I used to be a dumb little child. Keeping this one up for posterity, but I’m pleased to say that I’ve had much more sophisticated experiences with this movie since. From time to time, I see a movie that I don’t know what to make out of it. Not […]