Circuito chiuso [Closed Circuit] (1978)

Honorable Mention This is an odd one. I struggle with finding some way to classify this one, but it just refuses to cooperate. I suppose you might label it a Giallo mystery — many have — but it doesn’t have any of the usual trappings of that Italian subgenre: we have no secret killer with […]

Sutoreiyâzu kuronikuru [Strayer’s Chronicle] (2015)

Before we do anything else, we need to get one thing straight: Strayer’s Chronicle is not a Japanese rip-off of the X-Men. Not even of The New Mutants or Alpha Flight. I know, it looks like one. We’ve got a group of angsty young teens with strange mutant powers. However, instead of wrestling mightily with […]

rivets on the poster

“The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.” — Orson Scott Card

political maneuvering

Circuito chiuso [Closed Circuit] (1978)

Sutoreiyâzu kuronikuru [Strayer’s Chronicle] (2015)