Review: National Security
People walked out of the premiere at National Security, which played last year at the Busan International Film Festival. I wonder what was ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: Horror Stories
I’m sure that Horror Stories is not actually a commentary on just how poor Korean teens are at telling scary stories. The massive ...
Features
What do you think of celebrity Kickstarters?
A day late, but all the better for it. Inspired by the news of Spike Lee’s weird Kickstarter pitch (and to a lesser ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: Missionary
For some reason, I thought that Missionary would try to paint Mormons (and Mormon missionaries in particular) in a pleasant light. I knew ...
“ContemporAsian: Focus on Korea” series playing at MoMA
During the second week of August, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, in association with The Korea Society, will be hosting a ...
After the Credits: Taking my one day off
On Friday, we finished our coverage of the New York Asian and Japan Cuts Film Festivals. It’s been a crazy month, made even ...
Features
Flixist Discusses: Trash, violence, and scathing reviews
On Sunday I posted a video about the response to my extremely negative review of A Woman and War, explaining why I reviewed ...
Does Batman have a place in Snyder’s Superman universe?
With the next Man of Steel film confirmed to be featuring Batman (and potentially being called Batman vs. Superman), it seemed only appropriate ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Ravine of Goodbye
Sex in films is an odd thing. Personally, it bothers me. I tend to look away from the screen while sex scenes are ...
Features
After the Credits: Why would you want to see trash?
Earlier this week, I finally posted my review of A Woman and War, a film that I saw several weeks ago and have ...
Japan Cuts Review: Fly With the Gold
I don’t watch a whole lot of heist movies. It’s not that I don’t like them (I do), just that they don’t usually ...
NYAFF and Japan Cuts 2013 Flixist Awards and Recap
So here we are, the culmination of the past month of our Asian obsession. We did thirty reviews, three interviews, and a whole ...