Month: September 2011

Scenes Of City Life (China, 1935)

Scenes of City Life is a social satire produced in Shanghai in 1935 and whose director and writer, Yuan Muzhi, gained fame as the director...

The Learning (Philippines/United States, 2011)

Ramona S. Diaz’s follow-up to her award-winning documentary Imelda (2003) yet again explores the parent-child dynamic that defines the relationship between the United States and the Philippines....

Mr. and Mrs. Incredible (Hong Kong, 2011)

Following in the footsteps of the super hero meta-commentary film barrage in 2010  that included titles such as The Incredibles (no relation), Super, and Kick Ass,...

Crazy Stone (China, 2006)

The recent mainland China box office success of comedies that are as low-brow as they are low-budget has proved that local audiences love cheap laughs...

I Wish (Japan, 2011)

The eighth feature film by Hirokazu Kore-eda, I Wish (Kiseki) could be seen as a lighter counterpart to his heartbreaking Nobody Knows (2004) as he...

Villain and Widow (South Korea, 2010)

Once again I’ve come head to head with a genre-bending Korean film and as usual I feel it necessary to comment on this fact. Villain...