Asian Film Festival of Dallas 2012 Wrap Up

Thursday's closing night screening of the Yim Pil-seung/Kim Ji-woon omnibus film, Doomsday Book, capped another year of great films and great friends at the 2012 Asian Film Festival of Dallas. I've been attending the festival for seven years now and... More »

By J Hurtado

AFFD 2012 Review: I AM A GHOST

H.P. Mendoza's I Am A Ghost is a strange beast, part experimental film and part supernatural horror, the film goes places you wouldn't expect and I was hooked early on. I've mentioned my ambivalence toward experimental cinema more than once... More »

By J Hurtado

AFFD 2012 Review: TOO MANY VILLAINS

At this point we, as a community, have come to place certain expectations on films coming from different regions and genres. Harry Kim's neo-noir, Too Many Villains, does a nifty job of straddling the line between upholding the positive assumptions... More »

By J Hurtado

AFFD 2012 Review: LOVE FICTION, a Romantic Comedy That Veers Sharply Into Melodrama

The new film by Jeon Gye-soon (The Fox Family, Lost and Found) sets up as a traditional romantic comedy before exchanging its light-hearted sense of humor for a heavy-handed critique of male relationship fantasies. While a critical examination of a... More »

By Peter Martin

AFFD 2012 Review: GYO Is A Scatalogical Smorgasbord

While I cannot honestly say that I am familiar with the manga of the same title, I can say with some authority that Gyo, the anime feature, is likely to be one of the most bizarre films of 2012. As... More »

By J Hurtado

We Have 2 Pairs Of Passes To SAYA SAMURAI, Asian Film Festival of Dallas Centerpiece Film!

I tried this on Twitter, but there is a time crunch and I want you guys to get a chance to win!The Asian Film Festival of Dallas has graciously offered up two pairs of passes to their Centerpiece film, Hitoshi... More »

By J Hurtado

Full Schedule For The Asian Film Festival Of Dallas Is Live!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!That's right, the festival that got me hooked on festivals is about begin its eleventh annual event on July 12th and we have the full schedule ready for release! The Asian Film Festival... More »

By J Hurtado

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China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 2: I'M IN LOVE WITH EVERYBODY'S GIRL

CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »

CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 1: THOSE GOD DAMN FILM BLOGGERS

MIKE'S JOURNAL. MAY 13. MORNINGI wake up sometime around five AM. My flight to France doesn't leave until five PM. I should be there for security check in sometime around 3PM. There is no reason for me to be up this early but I'm feeling anxious. I have an itch... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 1: A MAN'S HANDSHAKE SAYS EVERYTHING

CHAPTER ONE: THE BIGGER THE SIDEBURNS, THE BIGGER THE ASSHOLE. I've hit the big time now. I've finally made it. I'm in like Flint from here on out. I'm boarding a plane to France where I'll be attending the Cannes Film Festival for the first time.No more unpaid blogging from... More »

Destroy All Monsters: Leo DiCaprio and the Myth of the Chick Flick

I have a running argument about whether or not movie box office is a zero-sum game. I tend to attack film earning potential from the "mother of two" perspective - which is that while yes, it's nice to believe that if a film is good it has a theoretically unlimited... More »