akira kurosawa

Scene of the Week: Ran – Epic Battle Scene

To put it very simply, Ran is one of the most gorgeous movies I’ve ever seen. Released in 1985, Ran was one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa’s last films and the final samurai film that he...

Bullet Points: Runaway Train

It’s not often that I get to talk about Cannon movies being legitimately great movies and it’s even more rare for those movies to star Eric Roberts. So what we have here is a unique experience...

Bullet Points: Mifune: The Last Samurai

Legendary actor Toshiro Mifune had a quality about him that is difficult to find these days. His gruffness and grit, his unspeakable masculinity, his ability to tell a story with just his facial expressions; he was...