There's a certain delight in seeing a movie completely cold, knowing nothing about it, except that it takes place on a train. I hadn't heard anything about Compartment No. 6, so it was pleasing to hav…
When Anthony Bourdain died a couple years ago by suicide, I was one of the few people I knew that didn't have a visceral reaction to the news. I knew who he was, of course, in sort of a pop culture wa…
When a lovely young Romanian cello player chastises a shaggy-puppy American that he is only involving himself in her world because he "has a fantasy about helping a woman in a faraway land...", she hi…
I'll admit it, I'm a bit of a Japan-o-phile. I (heart) Japan! When I heard about this film, about a couple of Americans wandering around Tokyo, I immediately thought, "Oooo... now there's the movie th…
