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Korea Has Become DERANGED

by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 6:20 PM


Dear Korea, your filmmakers are trying to tell you something. You need to clean up your rivers. First they spawned a monster in The Host. And now they're just skipping right over the middle man and making the general...

Toshiaki Toyoda Gets Back To The Angst In I'M FLASH Trailer

by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 3:00 PM


Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda carved out a very distinct niche for himself with his first trio of narrative features. Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls planted the director quite firmly as his nation's pre-eminent auteur of teen angst, his...

IMAGINE 2012: A LETTER TO MOMO review

by Ard Vijn, May 24, 2012 10:04 AM


(It is not "Totoro-light", although I guess it can be called "Totoro-heavy"...) Trying to see anime in the cinema can be quite hard in The Netherlands. The last decade we've seen the latest Miyazaki films released thanks to the international... More >>

Review: PISTOL OPERA (Personal Favorites #32)

by Niels Matthijs, May 24, 2012 5:43 AM


If you're into weird and you haven't seen Pistol Opera yet, just skip this review and make sure you go into the film as blank as possible. Pistol Opera is without a doubt one of the strangest cinematic experiences of...

Korean Sexy Card Caper Film TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS Coming To The US From 5 Points Pictures!

by J Hurtado, May 23, 2012 11:05 PM


There is a new home video distributor out there who seems to have the kind of massive cojones it takes to jump into the ever expanding niche home video market. That distributor is 5 Points Pictures (the live-action distribution arm...

DVD Review: Stephane Gauger's SAIGON ELECTRIC, B-Boys In Vietnam

by J Hurtado, May 23, 2012 8:50 PM


If someone had approached me a year ago and said, "Hey Josh, we're going to throw a film at you that involves Vietnamese B-boys dancing to save a community center and you're going to love it!", I would probably have...

Review: THE FLOWERS OF WAR (Yimou Zhang)

by Niels Matthijs, May 23, 2012 7:37 AM


Yimou Zhang is back with a new film and once again he means business. The Flowers Of War is China's most expensive film yet and it's one of the first major Chinese films to prominently feature an American Hollywood star...

More Car Action in Hong Kong Trailer For Soi Cheang's MOTORWAY

by Al Young, May 22, 2012 6:26 PM


Only a week after the last trailer for Soi Cheang's car chase flick Motorway surfaced, Media Asia has uploaded another one on its official Youtube channel with even more footage of stunt driving goodness.  As mentioned before, the film is produced by...

JEONJU 2012 Review: Raya Martin's THE GREAT CINEMA PARTY

by Oggs Cruz, May 22, 2012 3:39 AM


Raya Martin's The Great Cinema Party, the final third of the 2012 edition of the Jeonju Digital Project which includes new works by China's Ying Liang and Sri Lanka's Vimukthi Jayasundara, is uncharacteristically joyous. Despite starting with several minutes...

Official Trailer For Wong Kar Wai's New Short Film DÉJÀ VU

by Hugo Ozman, May 21, 2012 10:59 AM


As many of you would know, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters now has a scheduled released date of December 2012. While the world is waiting with anticipation and WKW is presumably busy with post-production(and possibly shooting / reshooting scenes) of...
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