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King of Peking (Australia/China, 2017)
Today, conversation about movies in Mainland China usually revolves around the thousands of multiplex cinemas that are being built each year, which local blockbuster has just set a new box office record, or how state […]
Interchange (Malaysia/Indonesia, 2016)
For his third feature, the Malaysia-Indonesia co-production Interchange, Malaysian filmmaker Dain Iskandar Said presents a story revolving around serial killings whose victims’ bloodless bodies are found suspended in an elaborate and decorative pose, underneath which […]
Blue Spring (Japan, 2001)
Blue Spring, directed by Toshiaki Toyoda, is a character driven drama that focuses on a group of teens in their last semester before graduation. The underperforming high school is filled with students who don’t care, […]
NIGHTSCAPE (South Korea, 2017)
Inchun Oh’s NIGHTSCAPE presents a simple but admittedly scary situation via an ingenious application of first-person POV style. Found footage has been the weapon of choice of low budget filmmakers for some time now. Right […]
Call for Papers: Action Cinema Now International Conference, 12-14 April 2019, Reading and London UK
At a moment when the relationship between popular culture, politics and society is again being sharply debated, action cinema as a dominant form of mass cultural production demands to be re-examined, as does the critical […]
Call for Papers: Capture Japan – Visual Culture and the Global Imagination
Contributions are now being accepted for a new edited book titled ‘Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present’. The book aims to analyse, deconstruct and challenge representations of Japan […]
ULAM: Main Dish (USA, 2017) [AAIFF 2018]
Arguably, nothing unites folk more than food: transcending a means to survive, food has become one of those cultural practices defining us as on a national level; our cuisines root themselves in memory and trigger […]