NYAFF Recommendation: Han Gong-Ju
Han Gong-Ju is incredible. It’s easily the best film I’ve seen at the New York Asian Film Festival thus far and among the ...
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NYAFF Review: Golden Chickensss
In a world wracked by reboot culture, the decision to sequelize the Golden Chicken franchise is an interesting one. The first film and ...
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Review: Rigor Mortis
In Hong Kong, vampires hop. The Jianshi (literally translated as “stiff corpse,” but who cares about literal translations?) are undead creatures that, arms ...
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Tribeca Review: Super Duper Alice Cooper
As a child, my parents lived and breathed Alice Cooper. My father had a particularly terrifying poster of his made-up, screaming face thumbtacked ...
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Tribeca Review: Maravilla
One of the most significant differences between a documentary and a film based on a true story is that documentaries can be about ...
Tribeca Review: Mala Mala
Mala Mala is the type of documentary that you feel privileged having watched. The Puerto Rican drag scene and transgender communities are endlessly fascinating, ...
The best of SXSW
SXSW wrapped up last week and now that we’ve had a chance to reflect and take it all in we’re here with the ...
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SXSW Review: Doc of the Dead
Zombies are some of the most divisive creatures in the horror genre. They’ve become such a big entity, the zombie film has grown ...
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SXSW Review: Que Caramba es la Vida
Growing up as a young Latino boy in San Antonio, Texas, I’ve had quite a few experiences with Mariachi groups. There was a ...
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Review: Cesar Chavez
There is a lot riding on Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez to succeed. Latinos aren’t exactly given a lot of representation in fiction, and ...
SXSW Review: The Desert
The Desert is a strange beast. A low-budget Argentinian zombie film where the main way money was saved was by having almost no ...
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Review: Neighbors
I had completely written off Neighbors. Coming off of Seth Rogen’s last starring role in This is the End, the first trailer for ...