I must admit that just as I have amusicality for most country music. I also have an inability to appreciate most of what comes out of a few film/TV genres. Case in point, I have ...
There is a lot of critical weight attached to a Wong Kar-Wai picture. Like all auteurs, Wong has, over the last three decades, crafted a public persona that has put the man front and center ...
Around this time of year, I start experiencing two things. One is excitement in anticipation of the annual New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) and the JAPAN CUTS Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema. The other ...
When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep is the latest feature from Taiwan’s government-sponsored commercial production sector to take an aspect of Taipei’s urban culture and utilise it as the basis for a ...
A Twitter conversation started by Kurtiss Hare amongst some fellow cinephiles was nano-trending the other day. Kurtiss proposed we ponder what comes to mind when we hear the words ‘program notes’. Appropriately vague enough to ...
Biotherapy is a horror/sci-fi shocker that clocks in just short of an hour. That’s right, short of an hour. Because of the film’s truncated time, you know that a lot of things like characterization and ...