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Film Review: The Stoneman Murders (2009) by Manish Gupta
Set against the serial killings that terrorised the pavement dwellers of Mumbai in 1983, the film is a neat little thriller which actually keeps you glued to your seats. Buy This Title There’s not much...
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Top 5 East Asian Horror Films
1. One Cut of the Dead (Shinichiro Ueda, Japan, 2017). Uedo’s directorial debut, which cost approximately $27,000 to make, hit the 2 million admissions mark on 20th October 2018 and is still playing to...
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Documentary Review: Inventing Tomorrow (2018) by Laura Nix
Most of the times, films about environmental issues tend to be dark and pessimistic. Although, we can’t complain about the films being pessimistic when the reality is such a mess where humans have...
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Film Review: Nervous Translation (2018) by Shireen Seno
With her first film “Big Boy”, Shireen Seno proved how much she understands children, and particularly their need to get away from the norms grown-ups impose on them. This quality is highlighted even...
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Film Review: The Witness (2018) by Jo Kyu-jang
Not a year goes by without South Korea releasing a serial killer movie, even if in the recent years the better entries in the genre have been few and far inbetween. “The Witness”, by director Jo...
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Film Review: Call Her Ganda (2018) by PJ Raval
Following the case against the US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton for killing Jennifer Laude, and the consequences of his deed with an engaged yet not biased eye, “Call her Ganda”...
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Film Review: Orgies of Edo (1969) by Teruo Ishii
Despite the fact that his filmography is quite diverse, Teruo Ishii is commonly known as the “King of Cult,” since he directed a number of movies in his quite prolific career, that definitely justify...
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Film Review: Hotel by the River (2018) by Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang-soo can be a very frustrating artist at times for some. He has developed a formula that he has stuck to so well for so long that audiences can pretty much guess several settings and...
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Film Review: Go Go Sisters (2018) by Nguyen Quang-dung
An adaptation of 2011 S. Korean film, “Sunny” which came to be the second highest grossing Korean film that year, “Go Go Sisters” was equally successful in Vietnam, by adapting the original’s story to...
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Film Review: Mr and Mrs Cruz (2018) by Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo
I have to admit that rom coms is not exactly my cup of tea, as I usually find them superficial to the point of silliness. “Mr and Mrs Cruz”, however, is anything but, particularly due to Sigrid Andrea...
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Film Review: Xiao Mei (2018) by Maren Hwang
Cinema, as much as literature has long been a source of fervent mythologising, be it of serial killers, politicians, musicians, sports heroes – anyone who has ever been cast under any given spotlight –...
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Film Review: Dear Ex (2018) by Chih-Yen Hsu and Mag Hsu
“Adults are the stupidest creatures on earth” Unsurprisingly, a large part of the most inspired art comes from a source of pain and suffering. Or at least this is what the stereotype of the tortured...
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Film Review: The Hungry Lion (2017) By Takaomi Ogata
One day during class, Hitomi’s homeroom teacher ends up being taken away by the police and it is soon revealed that he was involved in a sexual relationship with one of the students. This causes a lot...
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Interview with Hiroyuki Onogawa: I don’t compose film music in order to pull...
Hiroyuki Onogawa – music composer, author of the legendary film scores to ‘August in the Water’, ‘Electric Dragon 80.000 V’, ‘Labyrinth of Dreams’, collaborator for Sogo (Gakuryu) Ishii and Koji Fukada...
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Film Review: The Land of Seonghye (2018) by Hyung-suk Jung
How does one live when one has nothing? How should one live when one has everything? These are the questions South Korean director Hyung-Suk Jung poses to us in his second narrative feature. “The Land...
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Film Review: Sea (2018) by Kensei Takahashi
Premiering at Tokyo International Film Festival and actually a University graduation film, “Sea” is a proof that Japanese independent cinema is experiencing a rather interesting phase, and that new and...
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Documentary Review: Between Tides (2018) by Masa Fox
When we talk about politicians and heads of state meddling with the lives of people in distant lands, we often talk about war, insurrection repressions, the overthrowing of democratically-elected...
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Film Review: Ten Years Japan (2018) by Chie Hayakawa, Yusuke Kinoshita,...
With the Hong Kong omnibus narrative “Ten Years” becoming a surprise hit in 2015, it might not come as a surprise that the concept – envisioning the near future of one’s country – inspired various...
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Three Dee Movie Collection On DVD November 13 Exclusively at Walmart
For the first time, all three of Tsui Hark’s (“The Taking of Tiger Mountain”) Detective Dee films are available in one awesome collection exclusively at Walmart on November 13. The bold and exciting...
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Documentary Review: Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese, Past and Future...
Junichi Kajioka, an actor turned producer, turned director sheds light on a rather unknown aspect of Japanese and Jewish history, during WW2, concerning Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese acting consul in...
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