Review: Applause
A down-and-out parent wants to see their children, taken from them by divorce. It’s one of the oldest plots in the book, and ...
Tag: Foreign
Reviews
Review: The Illusionist
The greatest joy to be found for me in writing reviews comes in those rare moments when some unheralded film emerges as a ...
Reviews
Review: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
I’ve always been a bit of a grinch when it comes to Christmas. I never really could get into the holiday spirit of ...
Trailers
Bangkok Knockout is ready to punch your face in with awesome
Watch this video on YouTube Did you see Ong Bak? It had some pretty cool fight scenes, all done without CGI. But the ...
Reviews
London Film Festival Review: Thirteen Assassins
For the man notorious in the West for subversively shocking work like Ichi The Killer, Audition and Happiness of the Katakuris, the first ...
Review: Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In is a monster movie, but no more than it is a slow character drama. I feel it supports ...
Features
Hubert’s Top 5 Movies of 2019
As I look back on the last year in film, I feel like I still have a lot of catching up to do. ...
Movies
NYFF Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Midway through Céline Sciamma’s masterful Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we get the film’s thematic archstone. So much of this painterly, poetic ...
Movies
Review: An Elephant Sitting Still
Writer/director Hu Bo took his own life shortly after completing An Elephant Sitting, adapted from one of his own stories. He was only ...
Movies
Review: The Grandmaster
While Donnie Yen kicked off the Ip Man craze back in 2008, you could argue that Wong Kar Wai was partially responsible. Wong ...
First clip of The Host 2 from director Park Myeong-chan
The Host 2 MOVIE (Blockbuster Fantasy - Creature Film)Watch this video on YouTube I really dug Bong Joon-ho’s The Host, the 2006 Korean ...
Features
The Ecstasy of Endurance: Bela Tarr’s Satantango
Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó is a notorious endurance test for even the most seasoned cinephile. Scott Tobias at The AV Club called it “the ...