NYAFF Review: Top Star
When one of NYAFF’s programmers introduced Top Star, he said that it was surprising that this was Park Joong-hoon’s directorial debut. Park has worked ...
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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 ...
The 2014 New York Asian Film Festival is about to rock you
It’s that time again. Summer is here, which means that New York City residents have retreated to their air conditioned apartments, offices, and ...
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Review: Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer has been among my most anticipated films for the past several years. Every time we did a preview of what’s upcoming, Snowpiercer has been ...
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Review: Nothing Bad Can Happen
The German title of Nothing Bad Can Happen is “Tore Dances,” something I knew from the beginning thanks to the multiple attempts I have made ...
Flix for Short: O Futebol Classico, a Mickey Mouse short
To celebrate the FIFA World Cup kicking off in Brazil, Disney has crafted a new Mickey Mouse short entirely in Portuguese, O Futebol ...
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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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Review: Blood Glacier
When I heard there was a movie titled Blood Glacier, I knew I wanted to see it. After learning about its premise, my ...
Woman replaces the dead with dolls in “The Valley of Dolls” documentary
Filmmaker Fritz Schumann visits the mostly abandoned village of Nagoro in his creepily sweet short documentary The Valley of Dolls. Schumann profiles 64-year-old Nagoro ...
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Review: Himizu
I can see why Sion Sono was drawn to Himizu. The manga, which ran from 2001 to 2002, seems like exactly the sort ...
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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SXSW Review: Wetlands
Wetlands came out of Sundance with plenty of buzz for being shocking for its disturbing sexual content and brazen display of sexual acts. It ...