Joshua Chaplinsky
New York City, New York

Joshua Chaplinsky is the Managing Editor for LitReactor.com. He has also written for ChuckPalahniuk.net. He was a guitarist in the band SpeedSpeedSpeed, and is the poison pen behind thejamminjabber, although he's not so sure he should admit it.

NYAFF 2012: NY Premiere of Takashi Miike's ACE ATTORNEY
I remember being vaguely aware of Ace Attorney, the unlikely basis for Takashi Miike's latest mainstreamer, but never realized the game series had such a huge following. How huge, you ask? We're talking over 4 million units sold. That's a... More »
  

NYAFF 2012 Opening Night Screening: VULGARIA
The 2012 New York Asian Film Festival opened with a bang on Friday night with Pang Ho-Cheung's "astonishingly filthy" film industry send-up, VULGARIA. And when we say "bang," we're not talking explosions, here. There wasn't enough money for pyrotechnics in... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: Alex de la Iglesia's AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT
Iberian rapscallion Alex de la Iglesia returns with AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, yet another darkly comic exercise in capricious causality. His previous film, THE LAST CIRCUS, is pretty popular around these parts, although it does have its detractors (namely,... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: THE FOURTH DIMENSION
I came for the Korine. I stayed for the FAUNS. THE FOURTH DIMENSION is a triptych of vignettes all loosely centered around the titular theme of space and time. Produced in part by Eddy Moretti of VICE magazine, the film... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: JOURNEY TO PLANET X
Who doesn't love a good doc about the trials and tribulations of the aspiring filmmaker? I'm not talking your Heart of Darknesses or Burden of Dreamses, as classic as those films are. I'm talking VHS Kahloucha, Audience of One, and... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: FRANCOPHRENIA (OR DON'T KILL ME, I KNOW WHERE THE BABY IS)
The symbiotic relationship between celebrities and their adoring public is an interesting one. And it's films like James Franco's FRANCOPHRENIA (OR PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME TYPE OUT THE FULL TITLE EVERY TIME) that force me to consider my own role... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 [FULL SEQUENCE]
What is there to say about Tom Six's coprophagic endurance test that hasn't already been said? About as much as Martin had to say to his victims, I would think. Consequently, this review will be the reverse of my recent... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE SUNSET LIMITED
The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy's one-act novel in dramatic form, is all about the dialog. The Sunset Limited, Tommy Lee Jones' HBO adaptation of McCarthy's play, is all about the characters delivering that dialog.The plot of both is simple: White,... More »
  

Joshua Chaplinsky Adds To The Glut of 2011 Top 10 Lists
I don't want to hear any bitching- 2011 was a great year for film. Especially if you live in New York or got your ass to Fantastic Fest like I did. But even if you don't live in close proximity... More »
  

The Girls With The Dragon Tattoos
The higher-ups at Twitch have been kind enough to allow me to cross-promote a post I wrote over at LitReactor on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It is a comparison piece in which I break down all three versions-... More »
  

Gazing Into The Abyss: A Roundtable Discussion With Werner Herzog
Herzog's latest, the death row documentary Into The Abyss, opened in select theaters on Friday, November 11th. Werner Herzog is an imposing cinematic figure whose body of work casts a very long shadow. On warm summer days children frolic in... More »
  

Make It A Guys' Night In With SWINGERS and ROUNDERS ON Blu
Before they were Identifying Bourne and shilling for Marvel comics, respectively; John Favreau, Matt Damon, Doug Liman, and Edward Norton were squatting like frat boys in The House That Harvey Built. If this is a time you remember fondly, Lionsgate... More »
  

BOOK REVIEW: SHOCK VALUE by Jason Zinoman
Four out of five dentists may recommend sugarless gum, but four out of five horror fans recommend movies made in the 1970's. It's true. Ask any genre lover worth their weight in gore what their favorite decade is and more... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2011: INTO THE WHITE NIGHT Review
TCR 01:15:47:04Into The White Night is a good film. Too bad I had to watch a non-anamorphic screener with a time code running across the top and the wordSAMPLEstamped smack dab in the center of the frame. Call me a... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2011 - A NIGHT IN NUDE: SALVATION Review
So... apparently A Night In Nude: Salvation is a sequel. I had no idea. It isn't being billed as one, at least not on the Japan Society website, yet somehow the rest of the internet seems to know what I... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2011: BIRTHRIGHT (AKA UMBILICAL CORD) Review
Birthright, aka Umbilical Cord, is a deliberately paced psycho-drama about family, rejection and revenge. They say revenge is a dish best served cold, which, coincidentally, happens to be the best way to go into this film. Not because it's a... More »
  

Miramax catalog continues to trickle out on Blu- PULP FICTION and JACKIE BROWN in October?
As some of you may know, it was announced back in February that Lionsgate had acquired the Miramax back catalog for distribution on Blu-ray. The Scream Trilogy was one of their inaugural releases under that deal and a tentative date... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: HAUNTERS Review (A Very Different Take)
The screenwriter behind Kim Ji-woon's The Good, The Bad and The Weird makes his directorial debut with Korean box office hit, Haunters. Haunters is a quasi-superhero flick depicting the adversarial relationship between a powerful "psychic" and the only man impervious... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BEDEVILLED Review
This review contains spoilers.You know the saying, "A nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there?" Well, Moo-do Island isn't even a nice place to visit. With a population of roughly nine- including a pair of abusive... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD Review
I wonder if the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre saw God before they proceeded to shoot up their classmates- and if so- was God a middle-aged Japanese man in a bad suit? I mean, God does works in mysterious ways,... More »
  
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