NYAFF 2023 Review: The Empty Nest
There’s a growing concern in China about its elderly population living isolated lives due to mass urbanization. This cultural shift is due to ...
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NYAFF 2023 Review: Mad Fate
In my journey to discover Hong Kong cinema outside of the bubble that is 70s-90s action films, I figured it was best to ...
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Mission: Impossible takes top honors at this weekend’s box office, though it slightly under performed
As we all expected, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was the number one film at the box office this past weekend. ...
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Studio Ghibli announces North American release window for Miyazaki’s final film
After announcing a little over a month ago that acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film wouldn’t receive any pre-release trailers, Studio Ghibli has ...
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Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Much has been said about Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in the four or so years since it was first announced. ...
Insidious: The Red Door tops a pretty dire weekend at the box office
2023 will be looked back on as a year where studios (hopefully) learned how to better manage budgets. While Insidious: The Red Door ...
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny belly flops into first at the box office
If I had a nickel for each time a big-budget Hollywood film flopped this year but landed at number one at the box ...
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Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Legasequels have been all the rage in Hollywood for the last decade or so. With big-budget filmmaking being firmly in the “franchise” era, ...
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse crawls back to Number One at the Box Office
In a rather surprising turn of events, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has managed to crawl its way back up the box office charts ...
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Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: Golden Swallow
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
The Flash fails to spark much interest at the box office this weekend
Last weekend was not a good time to release big tentpole films. Both Warner Bros. and Disney learned that lesson the hard way ...
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rises up past the competition this weekend
It was a fierce battle at the box office this weekend, but the newly released Transformers: Rise of the Beasts managed to rise ...