After the Credits: The Korean Rom-Coms of NYAFF 2013
I very seriously considered doing a dual review of How to Use Guys with Secret Tips and Very Ordinary Couple. I’ve only ever written ...
Tag: Festival Films
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Hentai Kamen: Forbidden Super Hero
Hentai Kamen is a superhero movie about a guy who becomes an unstoppable force for perverse goodness whenever he wears a woman’s panties ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Secretly Greatly
Before the NYAFF screening of Secretly Greatly, director Jang Cheol-Soo (the man behind the oft-mentioned-by-me Bedevilled), came out and said a few words. ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Lesson of the Evil
Takashi Miike, who makes at least a dozen films a year, has been off making Samurai films and videogame adaptations instead of the blood-drenched ...
Features
Flixist Discusses Review: Double Xposure
Whenever News Editor Hubert Vigilla and I see a film together, we follow it up with a discussion about what we just saw, ...
Trailer: Our Children
Based on a true Belegian news story, Our Children follows Murielle (Emilie Dequenne) and Mounir (Tahir Rahim), a young couple whose passionate relationship ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Hardcore Comedy
I’m willing to forgive occasional errors in subtitle translations. It’s a tedious job and mistakes happen, whatever. I see them, and it makes ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Comrade Kim Goes Flying
The strangest thing about Comrade Kim Goes Flying is the nationality of its directors. When I first heard that there was a collaboration between the ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: How to Use Guys with Secret Tips
At last year’s NYAFF, it seemed like every other film I saw blew me away. Looking back at the roundup, almost half of ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: A Story of Yonosuke
A Story of Yonosuke clocks in at 160 minutes, which is a good chunk of time to spend with the title character and ...
Review: It’s Me It’s Me
Doppelgangers are the stuff of horror and of comedy. It would be uncanny to see yourself as a stranger — the self’s own ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Catnip
I think it was George Saunders who said that the worst comment a writer can receive about his or her work is that ...