Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023: Art College 1994
Directed by Liu Jian. Starring the voices of Jia Zhangke, Zheng Dasheng, Xu Lei, Wang Hongwei, Peng Lei, Ren Ke, Xu Zhiyuan, Shen Lihui....
Read MoreEdinburgh International Film Festival 2023 Review: Tokyo Pop – “A tremendous sense of fun and pure charm”
Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui Starring Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai (aka Yutaka Tadokoro), Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sugita, Satoshi...
Read MoreReview: Fremont – “Bold and assured in its style”
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...
Read MoreUS 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...
Read MoreReview: The Monkey King – “Colourful and loud”
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...
Read MoreReview: Blue Beetle -“A solid fun story”
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...
Read MoreReview: Love Life – “The kind of special movie that reminds us what cinema can do”
Love Life is a Japanese relationship drama that incorporates humour, melodrama and a sense of the unpredictability and unknowability that...
Read MoreReview: Gran Turismo – “Some great and exhilarating racing sequences”
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...
Read MoreUS 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...
Read MoreReview: A Thousand and One – “A contender for one of the best films of the year”
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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