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Exclusive SAVING MR. WU Trailer: Being Alive or Dead Makes All the Difference
Based on actual events, Saving Mr. Wu asks the deadly serious question: If a celebrity is kidnapped, what will it take to get him back alive? In a bit of type casting, Andy Lau plays a movie star who is...
Review: RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0, Twisted Soulmates Dance With Darkness
In a nation with over a billion residents and an annual output of nearly two thousand feature films every year, there is one name that stands out from the rest and has become the face of the Indian film industry,...
Review: RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN, Gawky Characters and Awkward Conversations Equal Pure Delight
Following Hong Sangsoo's career guarantees for viewers, at the very least, one thing - developing a keen eye for detail. The auteur's films are remarkably similar to one another, from their lecherous male director/professor characters and conversations over bottles of...
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New York Asian 2016 Review: A BRIDE FOR RIP VAN WINKLE Excels At Portraying Womanhood In Today's World
The director of this film, the famed artist and writer Shunji Iwai, started his career doing television films before shaking the entire landscape of Japan with films like Love Letter and Swallowtail Butterfly, and he somewhat goes back to the...
Kashyap, Anvari And Ezban Headline Neuchatel Guest List!
The upcoming Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival have announced the guest list for their upcoming addition and there are some intriguing names in the mix, including Indian indie crime auteur Anurag Kashyap (Psycho Raman), this year's sundance darling Babak Anvari...
Review: RIVER, Like Fire Running to a Powder Keg
As children, we are often taught that, when someone is in trouble, we should try to help, or if someone is being bullied, we should intervene. But sometimes, there can be unforeseen consequences that would endanger ourselves. Jamie M. Dagg's...
Exclusive Clip: RIVER - "Are You Here to Turn Yourself In?"
It's a prickly feeling at the bottom of your stomach. While volunteering as a doctor In Laos, John (Rossif Sutherland) has witnessed something terrible. As soon as he can, he comes to the U.S. Embassy for help. But, as our...
Review: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE, Funny and Heartfelt
Taika Waititi can do no wrong. From his wonderful short films to his features, and through his work on the hilarious TV show Flight of the Conchords, all of his efforts have been pitch perfect. Yet because of his last...
THE RAID Is Bringing The Bats, Hammers And Mad Dogs To Titan Comics
While we may not have a remake of the first film or a third installment of director Gareth Huw Evans's cult hit action saga, The Raid, happening anytime soon or just yet, there are still other means being looked at...
Portishead Freely Releases Their Abba SOS Cover From HIGH RISE
Say what you want about Ben Wheatley's divisive film High Rise, but having Portishead's cover of the Abba song S.O.S. on its soundtrack was a stroke of brilliance. The first song Portishead has recorded in over seven years, its inclusion...
Review: T-REX, Young Boxer on the Right, if Rocky, Road
"It was just something I liked to do," explains Claressa Shields, aka T-Rex. What she likes to do is box, which sets her apart from her high school classmates in Flint, Michigan (better known to documentary film devotees as the...
Review: LES COWBOYS Wrestles With Complex Issues and Ideas
Thomas Bidegain's film, Les Cowboys, begins in a strange key, with a nuclear French family spending the day at an American Western-themed rodeo (not that there's any other real kind). It's clearly no casual affair for them, but a practiced...
Review: EAT THAT QUESTION - FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS, A Service to a Musician's Legacy
It was somewhat startling to me when I lived in Europe several decades ago that the catchy, upbeat tune "Bobby Brown" would be played regularly on radio. Sure, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it, but,...
Review: MISCONCEPTION, Entertaining, Well-Made And Powerful
Jessica Yu has created some of the finest and most formally innovative documentaries of the past decade, such as In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) and Protagonist (2007). Her latest film Misconception, which had its world premiere at last...
Review: SWISS ARMY MAN, A Film Unlike Any Other
What do you want from the world of independent cinema? Well, ideally you'd like a story told without the overt constraints of market, where filmmakers can tell a tale to a wide enough audience that appreciates without sacrificing to the...
Review: THE STYLIST Cuts Deep Into the Heart of a Villain
Last month, we posted the teaser and poster art for the short film The Stylist by Jill "Sixx" Gevargizian. I recently saw the film at its world premiere during Etheria Film Night at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. As one of only...
Review: THE NEON DEMON, Beauty Is Fleeting
If beauty is fleeting, is there anything more precious than protecting it while it lasts? If all you have going for yourself is the outer shell, to what lengths would you go to in order to keep your specialness? Does...
Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn't
Recipient of the Matt Brown "Monumental Drop" Award for most deserving second-weekend plunge, Duncan Jones' Warcraft already looks like an afterthought. Rightly so: Warcraft's terrible. Absolutely terrible. It makes Krull look like Dragonslayer. Makes Dragonslayer look like Willow. Makes Willow...
BiFan Goes All Out with Mouthwatering 20th Edition
Humidity is in the air in Seoul which means BiFan is just around the corner! This evening, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival unveiled its big 20th edition lineup, which is sure to get local genre film fans salivating. BiFan...
Get Swept Away by The Beauty And Emotion of The Trailer For Tran Anh Hung's ETERNITY
Pause for a moment and take in the overwhelmingly beautiful and emotionally charged trailer for Tran Anh Hung's French language period drama Eternity. Mercy. At the end of the 19th century, Valentine, aged 20, married Jules. Towards the...
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