Hoshi no Koe ~The Voices of Distant Stars~, is an OVA that uses full 2D and 3D digital animation. It is a story of long distance love bridged by mail messages. Set in 2046, resulting from the discovery of the ruins of an alien civilization on Mars, man has made great leaps in technology and is planning to send an expedition into space in the following year. Nagamine Mikako and Terao Noboru are both junior high school students. While Noboru will be entering senior high next winter, Mikako is selected to join the space expedition.
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When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the “all-powerful” wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.Read More »

Surprising drama about two nobodies who find an unlikely romance despite the imminent collapse of their respective worlds. Francis Ng is Jordan, a low level triad who finds himself strangely attracted to divorced restaurant hostess Juliet (Sandra Ng), who’s had a mastectomy and has since retreated into a shell. Through coincidence, the two form a makeshift family with the child of a triad boss (Simon Yam) who’s after Jordan for some dough.Read More »

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Chicago Reader wrote:
The Breadwinner is a moving, visually impressive lesson in modern Afghan history
Posted By Ben Sachs on 01.26.18 at 12:26 PM

When I went to see The Breadwinner at the AMC River East a couple months ago, I was the only one in the theater; when I planned to write about it a few days later, the film had already left town. I’m glad to see that the Gene Siskel Film Center has brought it back for a weeklong engagement, so that more Chicagoans can catch up with this inventive and informative film. (That it was recently nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature should help drum up attendance.) Read More »

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.Read More »

A songwriter in love with his demanding boss’s secretary enters an alternate, wacky world where a much-needed hit tune may be created from his heart.Read More »

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.Read More »

Kentucky Pride is a 1925 American silent drama film from Fox Film about the life of a horse breeder and racer, directed by John Ford and starring Henry B. Walthall (who had previously played the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation). It is among Ford’s lesser-known works, but has been praised for sweetness and charm and its beautiful depiction of the life of horses and the relationship between the protagonist and his daughter. Several well-known thoroughbred racehorses appear in the film, including the legendary Man o’ War.Read More »

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.Read More »