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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023: Art College 1994

Posted by on Aug 25, 2023 in All, animated, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Directed by Liu Jian. Starring the voices of Jia Zhangke, Zheng Dasheng, Xu Lei, Wang Hongwei, Peng Lei, Ren Ke, Xu Zhiyuan, Shen Lihui....

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 Review: Tokyo Pop – “A tremendous sense of fun and pure charm”

Posted by on Aug 24, 2023 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui Starring Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai (aka Yutaka Tadokoro), Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sugita, Satoshi...

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Review: Fremont – “Bold and assured in its style”

Posted by on Aug 24, 2023 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Once, upon opening a fortune cookie, I took out the small strip of paper and it read, “You like Chinese food.”  I mean, this was a fairly...

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US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Ender’s Game, You Hurt My Feelings, Babylon 5: The Road Home, Confidential Informant, Junk Head, NCIS and more

Posted by on Aug 22, 2023 in All, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews | Comments Off on US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Ender’s Game, You Hurt My Feelings, Babylon 5: The Road Home, Confidential Informant, Junk Head, NCIS and more

It’s a small week this week, but we do get the return of a beloved science fiction franchise as well as a surprising amount of animated...

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Review: The Monkey King – “Colourful and loud”

Posted by on Aug 19, 2023 in action, All, animated, comedy, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

The Monkey King is a story from Chinese legends, which over the years has had a huge impact on pop culture. There are numerous adaptations...

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Review: Blue Beetle -“A solid fun story”

Posted by on Aug 17, 2023 in action, All, comedy, Comics, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

While superhero fatigue has started to set in, Blue Beetle has come in to stand apart from the others and hold its own. Balancing between...

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Review: Love Life – “The kind of special movie that reminds us what cinema can do”

Posted by on Aug 11, 2023 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Love Life is a Japanese relationship drama that incorporates humour, melodrama and a sense of the unpredictability and unknowability that...

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Review: Gran Turismo – “Some great and exhilarating racing sequences”

Posted by on Aug 8, 2023 in action, All, drama, Film, Games, Headline, Reviews, sport, Video Game | 0 comments

This is a difficult review to write, mostly because of how underwhelmed I felt at what is a truly remarkable story and my love for...

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US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Nightbreed, Swamp Thing, My Best Friend is a Vampire, Kandahar, River Wild, Rio Bravo, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 and more

Posted by on Aug 8, 2023 in All, Film, Reviews, TV | Comments Off on US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Nightbreed, Swamp Thing, My Best Friend is a Vampire, Kandahar, River Wild, Rio Bravo, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 and more

Well, I was on vacation last week, so this week’s column includes some titles that hit streets while I was away. But we’re all caught up...

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Review: A Thousand and One – “A contender for one of the best films of the year”

Posted by on Aug 8, 2023 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Could A Thousand and One be a contender for one of the best films of the year? I certainly think so. We follow Inez de la Paz (Teyana...

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