Segurista (Philippines, 1996)
The films that Tikoy Aguiluz has directed over his 37 year feature filmmaking career have not just courted controversy but also straddled the oftentimes contradictory...
The Uninvited (South Korea, 2003)
The Fusion Pizza-Dog. It’s perhaps the most perplexing, and yet seductive example of the fusion food that permeates the South Korean landscape. Like this bizarre...
Shadow Days (China, 2014)
Zhao Dayong leapt to the forefront of China’s independent documentary movement with Street Life (2006), an unflinching portrait of the lives of migrant workers in...
Police Story: Lockdown (China/Hong Kong, 2013)
When is a Police Story movie not a Police Story movie? When it’s Police Story: Lockdown, an in-name-only series entry that uses brand recognition to...
Snowpiercer (South Korea, 2013)
After many years of widely-publicized development and audience anticipation, Bong Joon-ho’s fifth feature Snowpiercer arrives amidst a media storm that has devoted as many column...
Flash Point (Hong Kong, 2007)
In 2005, director Wilson Yip and star Donnie Yen blew the doors off the action genre with SPL, a gritty, nihilistic cop drama that featured...
Shady (Japan, 2012)
Japanese films that chronicle the trails and tribulations of youth are such an industry fixture that most directors can deliver a pleasing coming-of-age tale that...
Beijing Love Story (China, 2014)
Beijing Love Story is the kind of crowd-pleaser which is too obviously calculated in conception, execution, and marketing strategy to be completely winning: derived from...
Interview – Director Roseanne Liang and the Flat3 Three
I was delighted to hear that Roseanne Liang’s New Zealand web series Flat3 would be coming to San Francisco’s CAAMFest 2014 (and, yes, the official title of Flat3 has no...