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FEAR THE NIGHT Review: Menaced By Men

Maggie Q stars in a tense thriller, written and directed by Neil LaBute.

Review: THE PROTEGE, Short on Action and Drama, Long on Thespian Character Work

Maggie Q, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson star in the action-thriller, directed by Martin Campbell.

Review: DEATH TO ME, Overly Familiar, Cliched Horror Entry

Maggie Q, Luke Hemsworth and Alex Essoe star in Darren Lynn Bousman's horror mystery.

Review: THE ARGUMENT, Trifling Theatrical Experimentation

Robert Schwartzman (Dreamland, The Unicorn), part of film family royalty (brother is Jason Schwartzman, cousin is Sofia Coppola etc.) is relatively new to Hollywood's Indies. His third feature The Argument continues the trend of approachable genre experiments inherent in his...

DEATH OF ME Trailer: Maggie Q And Luke Hemsworth Solve Her Murder in Darren Lynn Bousman's New Horror

The trailer for Darren Lynn Bousman's new horror flick Death of Me debuted yesterday. We can share it with you now, below.    Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth play a couple who are trying to solve a murder. Hers. I...

Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 5

2010’s In my previous article there was a comment regarding a film that I had left out. I apologise in advance if there are any films that I miss out. This may be due to me simply forgetting or just...

Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 6

It would turn out that Enthiran wouldn’t be the only Indian film that Yuen Woo Ping would work on. He would go on to create the fight scenes for the romantic thriller I (2014). Although it does have some well...

The Warrior and the Wolf Review

When Tian makes a new film, I take notice. Without a doubt my favorite Chinese arthouse director, though his somewhat modest productivity makes it difficult to built a solid view of his style and strengths. The Warrior and The Wolf...

HKAFF: THE WARRIOR AND THE WOLF Review

It's a struggle to summarise exactly what happens in the first half hour of Tian Zhuangzhuang's THE WARRIOR AND THE WOLF as it largely resembles a cobbled together mass of random sequences and unrelated footage from a frenzied shoot in...

10 Minute Promo for Tian Zhuangzhuang's Epic 狼灾记 (The Warrior and The Wolf)

What is the best antidote against creative stagnation? Delving into familiar territory from a completely different perspective, for instance. If you take into account the current oversaturation of Chinese historical epics, what really stands out is not so much the...

TIFF 09: Trailer Arrives For Epic WARRIOR AND THE WOLF

Epic?  Oh, yes.  The first trailer for Chinese / Japanese period epic The Warrior and the Wolf with Jo Odagiri and Maggie Q has just arrived online and it is absolutely gorgeous.  Yes, please.  The film is about to premiere...

TIFF 09: First Look At Maggie Q And Joe Odagiri in THE WARRIOR AND THE WOLF

As any regular rerader of this site will know, we are big fans of Japan's Joe Odagiri around these parts and loyal followers of his career. And Odagiri has been on a bit of a world wide tour of late,...