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, ...
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Trailers
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: The Complex
Director Hideo Nakata is best known for 1998’s Ringu (The Ring), the film that kicked off a wave of international interest in J-horror at ...
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 ...
NYAFF Review: When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
When people use the word “cute” to describe a movie, it’s usually dismissive. “It was cute,” as if there was an unstated “Eh” ...
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 ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Thermae Romae
The plot of Thermae Romae sounds like it was born from a drunken night of playing Mad Libs: a bath house architect from ...
Reviews
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 ...
NYAFF Review: Tales from the Dark Part 1
Tales from the Dark Part 1 had its world premiere last Friday at the New York Asian Film Festival. It’s an anthology horror ...
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 ...