by Chris East on January 21, 2012
Maybe I went into Battle Royale (2001) with my expectations too high. This notorious Japanese violence-fest has its share of bloody, creative virtues, but ultimately it rang hollow for me. In a totalitarian alternate reality, the reigning regime enacts draconian laws to keep the younger generations in line. As part of this initiative, a busload [...]
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Aki Maeda,
Battle Royale,
Lord of the Flies,
Sam Peckinpah,
Survivor,
Tatsuya Fujiwara
by Chris East on June 27, 2011
I discovered Lost at a darkish time in my life, which happened to coincide with the explosion of TV-to-DVD releases in the mid-2000s. It turned out to be perfect timing: I was lonely, bored, and had plenty of free time, so collecting and marathoning addictive TV shows became kind of a passion for me (and [...]
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaja,
Allison Janney,
Daniel Dae Kim,
David Fury,
Elizabeth Mitchell,
Evangeline Lilly,
Henry Ian Cusick,
Jeremy Davies,
Jorge Garcia,
Josh Holloway,
Ken Leung,
Lost,
Matthew Fox,
Michael Emerson,
Survivor,
Terry O'Quinn,
The Twilight Zone,
Yunjin Kim