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Film Review: Killing (2018) by Shinya Tsukamoto
With “Killing”, Tsukamoto returns to the question of the meaning of death and the question of the true value of life. While in “Fires on the Plain”, Tsukamoto’s previous narrative, he approached these...
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Film Review: Taste of Rice Flower (2017) by Pengfei
The issue regarding millions of Chinese workers moving into urban areas to exploit the work opportunities and leaving their children behind, either with older relatives or even on their own has been a...
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Film Review: Shuttle Life (2017) by Tan Seng Kiat
Probably the most celebrated Malaysian film of 2017, “Shuttle Life” screened in festivals like the Golden Horse and Shanghai International, earning nominations and awards for its dramatic portrayal of...
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Film Review: Bodyguard Kiba (1993) by Takashi Miike
Based on a manga from Ikki Kajiwara, Miike teams up with Ikki’s brother, Hisao Maki to write the screenplay. After “The Human Murder Weapon” (1992), this was their second project, followed up by many...
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Film Review: A Letter to the President (2017) by Roya Sadat
The first film by a woman after the fall of the Taliban regime, and Afghanistan’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar, is an extremely pointy production that deals with the inconsistencies of...
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Film Review: Dog Days (2018) by Timmy Harn
Basketball is quite popular in the Philippines and basing a film upon it is definitely not a bad idea. Timmy Harn did so, but extended his narrative in order to include a number of important local...
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The 8th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival is coming soon!
The Festival runs February 14-23 in New York City with a jam-packed schedule of 89 fantastic films from 32 countries, seriously amazing discussion panels, cool networking events and super-fun parties...
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Documentary Analysis: Lamunan Oi! A Punk Daydream (2019) by Jimmy Hendrickx
“Lamunan Oi! A Punk Daydream” is a scattershot documentary that delves into the Indonesian Punk Scene. The high octane Indonesian punk scene is also inspired by indigenous Dayak tattooing and...
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Interview with Peng Fei: “I thought the people in the village led a miserable...
Peng Fei (1982, Peking) was born into a family of opera performers in Beijing. Under his family’s influence, he developed a strong passion for the arts. After graduating from high school he went to...
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Documentary Review: “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” (2019) by Kavich Neang
“At least this time they’re paying us to leave.” According to the website of White Building Project, the White Building in Phnom Penh is one of the most significant historical landmarks of the...
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Interview with Tang Seng Kiat: “We are like frogs being boiled alive, we lose...
Tan Seng Kiat was born in Malaysia. He studied filmmaking at the National Taiwan University of Arts. He is the director of the short 32°C Fall in Love. “Shuttle Life” is his debut feature film. On the...
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ICEMAN: THE TIME TRAVELER Debuts on Digital, Blu-ray Combo & DVD February 19
Iconic action star Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, IP Man franchise) gets defrosted for the sequel to the fantasy-adventure Iceman when ICEMAN: THE TIME TRAVELER debuts on digital, Blu-ray...
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Film review: Widow of Silence (2018) by Praveen Morchhale
You don’t need a tormenting rattling of machine guns to tell about terrors of war. You don’t need buckets of blood to depict violence. Praveen Morchhale understands that perfectly. In his third...
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Film Review: Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (2018) By Camila José Donoso
After exacting revenge on an ex-lover by burning down his house, 66 years old Nona moves to a small coastal town to find peace and start a new life. However, fires begin to engulf her friends and...
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Interview with Leena Alam: “After the slap, when I went up the stairs, I hid...
Leena Alam is an award winning Afghan film and Tv actress and a Human rights activist. She started her acting career in 1998 with films as “In a Foreign Land”, “Loori” and a few more made by the...
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Film Review: The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain (2018) by Ridham Janve
“The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain” is Ridham Janve’s directorial debut and it is one that has already impressed, winning the Silver Gateway of India at the Mumbai Film Festival, coming...
View ArticleTrailer for Japanese Film “Call For Dreams”
Director Ran Slavin (“The Insomniac City Cycles”) has completed production on his most recent feature, “Call For Dreams”. The film is inspired by recollections of dreams received from multiple people...
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Documentary Review: BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry (2018) by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
After a great feature debut with “Heart Attack”, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit has turned towards the documentary with equal success, with the “unusual” “Die Tomorrow” winning the Grand Prix at Five...
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Film Review: Cat Sticks (2019) by Ronny Sen
The screen debut “Cat Sticks” by the Indian filmmaker Ronny Sen challenges our prejudice about Indian cinema right from the start – it is a lean art house drama about junkies told as a mosaic composed...
View ArticleShort Film Review: Peppermint (2019) by Shubham Sanjay Shevade
“Peppermint” is Poorva Shivakumar’s’s thesis film, directed by Shubham Sanjay Shevade, which will be screened at Warner Bros Studios on February 1, 2019. The short begins with Subramaniyam, an Indian...
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