International: Asia
Berlinale 2026 Review: SLEEP NO MORE, Horror in an Indonesian Sweatshop
Director Edwin's film stars Rachel Amanda, Lutesha, Iqbaal Ramadhan, Didik Nini Thowok, and Sal Priadi.
Berlinale 2026 Review: WE ARE ALL STRANGERS, Winning Generational Drama Set in Singapore
Writer/director Anthony Chen's film stars Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Andi Lim, and Regene Lim.
Hong Kong to Hollywood Express: A BETTER TOMORROW Galvanizes, Even Today
Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, and Chow Yun-Fat star in John Woo's kinetic, thrilling tale of heroic bloodshed.
THE UGLY Review: TRAIN TO BUSAN Director Gut-Wrenchingly Critiques Vanity and Violence
Filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho ('Train to Busan') directs a thought-provoking and gut-wrenching murder mystery.
Echoes: The Reason Behind Pakistan's Absence from the Oscars Race
It is heartbreaking to know that Pakistan's officially selected Oscar submission, Hun Dan - An Echo of a Dirge, failed to reach the Academy Awards due to administrative hurdles and documentation issues. It was Pakistan's first Burushaski language film, directed...
Berlinale 2026 Review: LIGHT PILLAR Casts a Melancholic Glow on Disconnection
In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer's precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation.
Echoes: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat's LALI, Eccentric Auteur Blooms in Berlin
The 2026 Berlin Film Festival has concluded, and the winners have been announced, notably Yellow Letters. Despite not being able to win any prize at the 76th Berlinale, an all-Pakistani production definitely made waves at its premiere. Packed with the...
Opening This Week: SCREAM 7, DREAMS, A BETTER TOMORROW
Plus: 'Ghost Elephants,' 'Microbudget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPic.'
BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS Interview: Director Yuen Woo-ping on Passing the Baton and Still Learning After Over 50 Years
There are few filmmaking visionaries whose work has touched more than Yuen Woo-ping. A triple-threat stuntman, choreographer and director, his illustrious career began hand-in-hand with Jackie Chan's, helming the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master in 1978 and supercharging the Hong...
Friday One Sheet: LIVING THE LAND
There are some posters which communicate to the observer that, if they like their films with exceptional composition and visual mise en scène, then they are in good filmmaking hands. The key art for Huo Meng's Venice Silver Bear winner,...
Now Playing: BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS and Some Other Movies
Spoiler: 'Psycho Killer' is quite awful, and 'How to Make a Killing' is not much better. Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful' and two 'One Mile' films.
Politics of Time: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong at Metrograph
Metrograph, New York's Lower Eastside repertory/arthouse film institution, is surveying the works of Thai filmmaker, Anocha Suwichakornpong, starting February 21st through two consecutive weekend screening of her feature-length and short films, as well as streaming of her work for home...
TU YAA MAIN Review: India's Remake Of THE POOL Blows The Original Out Of The Water
A pair of star-crossed lovers fight for their lives against a hungry crocodile in director Bejoy Nambiar’s surprising Tu Yaa Main, a masala adaptation of cult Thai survival horror film, The Pool. Ms. Vanity aka Avani (Shanaya Kapoor) is one...
Opening This Week: PSYCHO KILLER vs. HOW TO MAKE A KILLING
Plus: 'This Is Not a Test,' 'Redux Redux,' 'The Dreadful,' 'One Mile' (both chapters), 'Kokuho.'
GHOST TRAIN Review: South Korean Horror Trods Overly Familiar Supernatural Ground
The translated title of Tak Se-woong’s (Devil in the Lake, A Stranger Dream) latest, feature-length film, Ghost Train (괴기열차), is something of a misnomer. While Tak’s intriguingly premised supernatural horror film involves unquiet specters (a handful, maybe more) and...
TORMENT (TORMENTO): Mexican Horror Flick Sells at EFM
Proven to be a concept that has some staying power, more international rights have been secured for Torment (Tormento) the Mexican remake of the Urguayan horror flick, Morgue. Leaving her job at a shopping mall, an exhausted security guard...
Now Streaming: HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST, MILLION-FOLLOWER DETECTIVE, More Netflix Murders
Plus: 'Honey Bunch' arrives on Shudder.
A CHINESE COURTESAN Double Feature Celebrates Seduction and Savagery
Imprint Films brings a Shaw Brothers double feature filled with sex and swordplay.
Rotterdam 2026 Review: ROID, An Ode to the Bengali Landscape and Its Cinema
Director Mejbaur Rahman Sumon's evocative tale from the Bengali countryside about love and fate, echoing the freshness of Satyajit Ray's cinema.
THE FORBIDDEN CITY Trailer: Gabriele Mainetti's Martial Arts Epic Coming to Digital This March
Gabriele Mainetti's standout martial arts action epic, The Forbidden City, is coming to digital on March 17th. The release comes from the good folks at Well Go USA, and they put out the trailer today. You definitely want to check...
