The Assassin has been a long time coming. It was in gestation for 25 years, and in various stages of production for a further five, but has now finally arrived. A movie that is similar […]
In many respects, My Wife is a Gangster 3 delivers all the mediocrity that one would expect from a second sequel that has been produced with the intention of milking whatever commercial value is left […]
‘Why are you going off at a tangent?’ asks fresh-faced police detective Bong (Takeshi Kaneshiro) of his veteran partner Hei (Tony Leung) over a glass of whisky at an up-market Hong Kong bar. ‘Just to […]
The films of the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien have dealt alternately with the tumultuous periods of Taiwan’s past and the pressing problems of its present, but the multi-stranded narrative structure of Three Times (2005) provided […]
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