NYAFF Review: Eungyo (A Muse)
I have a tendency to forget, and I doubt that I’m the only one, that pedophilia does not refer to teenagers. In fact, ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Confession of Murder
It’s interesting to see the way other cultures portray their media. I’m not talking about the television pundits that get across important plot ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Helter Skelter
It would seem to me that being a supermodel might actually be one of the most difficult jobs out there. It’s not the ...
Features
NYAFF Interview: Jung Ji-Woo (Director of Eungyo/A Muse)
One of the more interesting films I saw at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival was Eungyo, also known as A Muse, ...
Features
Should kids be allowed into R-rated movies?
Sorry we’re a day late, folks, but festival season has officially kicked off and that makes scheduling everything else much more difficult. Next ...
Japan Cuts Review: A Woman and War
It’s hard to offend me. Really hard. For a while, I thought it might be almost impossible. Not even A Serbian Film offended me ...
Features
After the Credits: Weekly Film Club Edition
This summer, I’ve been trying to keep up a weekly film club. This consists of me telling people that they have to watch ...
New York Asian Film Festival makes a triumphant return
Two years ago, the New York Asian Film Festival changed my life just a little bit. It was my first serious introduction into ...
Reviews
Review: A Werewolf Boy
Werewolves are kind of dumb. They’re an amalgamation of two great flavors (wolves and people) that don’t go great together. The most telling ...
Japan Cuts 2013 finishes what NYAFF started
So, we’ve been in and out of the Walter Reade theater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, seeing movies, talking to people, ...
Bioshock director Ken Levine writing Logan’s Run remake
Well this is interesting. Ken Levine, creative director of Irrational Studios, responsible most famously for the Bioshock franchise and and less famously for ...
Has Superman lost his soul?
Critically, the reception to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has been all over the place. Although the Rotten Tomatoes consensus says that it ...