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Finding Mr. Right (China, 2013)

One of the biggest box office hits of 2013 to date at the mainland China box office, Finding Mr. Right has been seen as a game changer of sorts in terms of audience trend as ...

Posted by John Berra
on May, 22 · in Reviews

UFO in Her Eyes (China/Germany, 2011)

Since the late-1990s, Guo Xiaolu has been developing a fascinating, multi-disciplinary career that ranges from literary fiction to incisive documentaries to narrative features, with such novels as 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008) and ...

Posted by John Berra
on May, 15 · in Reviews

KL Noir: Red (2013)

Intended as the first of four volumes about the underbelly of Kuala Lumpur, the seedily evocative KL NOIR: RED is an enticing anthology consisting of fourteen works of fiction and one essay, all of which ...

Posted by John Berra
on Apr, 21

Reincarnation (Japan, 2005)

Takashi Shimizu’s spookily effective Reincarnation arrived relatively late in the J-Horror cycle, after international audiences had already been unsettled by Ring (1998), Pulse (2001), One Missed Call (2003), and Shimizu’s theatrical instalments of the Ju-on: ...

Posted by John Berra
on Apr, 11

Rurouni Kenshin (Japan, 2012)

Keishi Ohtomo’s Rurouni Kenshin opens like many historical pictures, in pitch darkness with the year and conflict telegraphed to us through white on black intertitles. It is 1868, the closing moments of the Boshin War, ...

Posted by Rex Baylon
on Apr, 09

My Dear Enemy (South Korea, 2008)

If money problems can force people apart, they can also bring them together again. At least that is the premise of Lee Yoon-ki‘s My Dear Enemy, a low-key romance that uses the collection of an ...

Posted by John Berra
on Apr, 05

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