NYAFF Review: Taiwan Black Movies
Sometimes it’s difficult for documentaries to convey all they hope to convey, especially when the documentary is about a film genre or a ...
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Review: Behind the Camera: Why Mr. E Went to Hollywood
As a reviewer, there’s only so many, there is a constant cloud hanging over my head questioning whether or not I am just ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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NYAFF Review: The Bullet Vanishes
There’s an observation in This Is Spinal Tap that sums up the dilemma of many detective stories: there’s a fine line between clever ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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NYAFF Review: The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
Ip Man starring Donnie Yen and directed by Wilson Yip is one of the best martial arts films of the last 10 years. It ...
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Review: Ip Man: The Final Fight
In the review for The Legend Is Born: Ip Man, I mentioned how the character of Yip Man seems to be turning into ...
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Review: After Tiller
Before After Tiller even began, I thought I knew how I was going to start this review: I was going to comment on the ...
HRWFF Review: Anita
Certain historical events unfold when you’re young, but you don’t even realize how important they are until you’re much older. I remember seeing ...
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HRWFF Review: Fatal Assistance
The numbers of the 2010 Haitian earthquake are heartbreaking: between 220,000 to 316,000 dead, and roughly 280,000 residences and commercial buildings destroyed or ...