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Film Review: The Doll (2016) by Rocky Soraya
One of the most terrifying concepts in horror cinema, the concept of the creepy, inanimate doll that may or may not be alive serves as the basis for countless films in the genre. Ranging from the...
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Film Review: Lady of the Lake (2016) by Haobam Paban Kumar
The first feature film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar focuses in the state of Manipur in northern India, and particularly the Loktak Lake. This lake is characterized by its...
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The London Korean Film Festival 2019 Teaser Screenings Presents the UK...
The London Korean Film Festival 2019 presents the UK Premiere of “Default” at Regent Street Cinema, Monday 20th May “The poor get poorer… unemployment becomes the norm… we must not choose that world.”...
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Short Film Review: “Journey by Life” (2018) by Fahim Ahmed
Since it is in the nature of conflicts to estrange us from others, they often blind us as we start to focus only on ourselves. Strangely enough and especially with feuds going on for decades, the...
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Film Review: Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017) by Imtiaz Ali
There are many theories of love and one of the most popular is psychologist Robert Sternberg’s Triangular theory of love. The theory defines love through three phases – Passion, Intimacy and...
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Film Review: A Death in the Gunj (2016) by Konkona Sen Sharma
Acclaimed actress Konkona Sen Sharma, daughter of Bengali filmmaker Aparna Sen and protagonist of films like “Omkara”, Page 3″ and “Lipstick under my Burkha”, directs this impressive film, which...
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Film Review: Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (2017) by Dileesh Pothan
After the most talked about film of Malayalam film industry in the last year “Maheshinte Prathikaram” (“Mahesh’s Revenge”), director Dileesh Pothan and actor Fahadh Faasil come together for...
View ArticleJAEFF 2019 will focus on the idea of nation in September 2019 in this year’s...
Spring is the time to look forward so please SAVE THE DATE for JAEFF 2019: NATION taking place from 20-22 September at the Barbican and Close-Up Cinema in London!JAEFF 2019: Nation will examine...
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Short Film Review: E H D (2019) By Sumit Saurav
A young boy visits a friend while in a panic. His cousin is on the way with a message that can have dire consequences on his future. The boy turns to his female friend, who is studying psychology, to...
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Film Review: Yakuza Law (1969) by Teruo Ishii
There are two genres that Teruo Ishii definitely knows well: Yakuza and exploitation. Evidently, combining the two into one film (even if it is an omnibus) was definitely a good idea, particularly...
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Film Review: Melancholic (2018) by Seiji Tanaka
What starts off as a coming-of-age film, morphs towards an ode to V-Cinema and Hong Kong action films, and finally, emerges as a touching human drama. In his debut feature, “Melancholic”, director...
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Film Review: Ten Years Thailand (2018) by Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng,...
Little did Ng Ka-leung knew back in 2015 when he was producing the omnibus “Ten Years”, of the impact his film would have, both as a separate entity and, as of now, as a project that has Thailand,...
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Interview with Devashish Makhija: The anger I have felt on behalf of the...
Devashish Makhija was born and raised in Kolkata, India. He studied at Don Bosco High School and pursued a degree in Economics at St. Xavier’s College. He began his career as an Assistant Director on...
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Japan Society to screen Yasuzo Masumara’s “Afraid to Die”
Japan Society will be celebrating the English translation of Yukio Mishima’s novella “Star”, based directly on his experience starring in Yasuzo Masumara’s film “Afraid to Die” with a 35mm screening...
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Film Review: Harishchandrachi Factory (2009) by Paresh Mokashi
by Sayaak Santra The highest honour in the field of Indian movies is the Dadasaheb Phalke award. Every Indian child grows up knowing that Dadasaheb Phalke was the first Indian to make a full length...
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Film Review: Pegasus (2019) by Han Han
Being a famous blogger, novelist, singer and film director seemed not to be enough for Han Han, who at one point, also decided to become a rally driver, and then blog and write about his experience....
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Film Review: Chanthaly (2013) by Mattie Do
Lao-American filmmaker Mattie Do will be part of the 2019 International Jury of the Far East Film Festival’s White Mulberry Award. Chanthaly is her mixed-genre first feature. Chanthaly is a...
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Film Review: The Great Battle (2018) by Kim Kwang-sik
One of the bloodiest confrontations in Korean history, the story of the siege of Ansi, where Goguryeo forces held their fortress against 200,000 invading Tang soldiers that raged for eighty-eight...
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Documentary Review: An Insignificant Man (2016) by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay...
The importance of this documentary becomes evident from the way it raised the funds for its production. As the makers of the film had a goal of $20.000, they decided to “plea” through their film site...
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Film Review: Ten Years Taiwan (2018) by Lekal Sumi, Rina B. Tsou, Po-shun,...
After Hong Kong and Thailand, now it’s Taiwan’s turn to present its own very personal vision of the near future in “Ten Years Taiwan”, the omnibus that is now a sort of franchising, following the...
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