The undisputed master of ninja trash fiction, director Godfrey Ho, made over 100 bad movies, and this one is widely known as one of his most ridiculous ones. As with other Ho films, Ninja Terminator is a collage between the material he personally recorded ("Movie A") and clips from some other movie that he "adapted" to his plot by dubbing the voices ("Movie B"). Movie B is in this case some super-obscure Korean potboiler known as Uninvited Guest (1986), while…

Maybe one of the best films of the 21st century, and certainly one of the most depressing films in general, A Place in the World is a film so brutal and bleak that it almost plays out like an endurance test. It's the second and last (as of now) film by the somewhat mysterious Artur Aristakisyan, about whom little is known, and whose two films are so oppressively depressing that he makes directors like Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa and Konstantin…

A few days ago, I watched my favorite movie, Yoshishige "Kijū" Yoshida's Eros + Massacre for the sixth time. When it was over, I felt the urge to watch it once more; there's just something really addictive about it. This review is an attempt to try to put into words what it is about E+M that I find so compelling, why it changed the way I look at cinema, why it still feels so original 48 years after its release…