by James Marsh, September 16, 2009 6:50 PM
Opening this year's Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival on Wednesday night was Johnnie To's latest offering, VENGEANCE. A good old fashioned revenge thriller, the film is a collision of ideas and styles and an obvious attempt by the...
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by Todd Brown, September 16, 2009 11:18 AM
If it seems like the sort of story that could happen in real life, that's because it is. Pulled from actual headlines, Rain Dogs director Ho Yuhang returns with At The End Of Daybreak, a story of class division...
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by Todd Brown, September 16, 2009 11:12 AM
Nina is an aspiring rock star. Kiko is a deaf dancer. And the idea of the two of them hooking up in a Filipino teen-romance will probably provoke as many rolls of the eyes among those reading this as...
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by Todd Brown, September 15, 2009 6:18 PM
[Our thanks to Moko for the following review.] An uninformed moviegoer may read the initial premise of Air Doll and think, "Wow, a Japanese movie about a sex doll that comes to life? That MUST be zany! There's absolutely...
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by Todd Brown, September 15, 2009 10:36 AM
It's a tale of two John's in Hong Kong / French co-production Vengeance. On one side of the coin is iconic Hong Kong director Johnnie To, here tipping his hat to his beloved library of classic French gangster films while...
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by X, September 14, 2009 7:57 PM
The crimson mantle of light and shadows before sunrise, one last bittersweet goodbye to a day almost gone; their hands in the air, sparkles of youth from many moons past all together embracing that withering light before darkness once...
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by X, September 11, 2009 2:03 AM
A new start. A fresh new start is all it takes. Like voices brimming inside our souls, adamant to explode out in the open and be revealed for everyone to listen, such instincts can be very alluring, some of...
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by Todd Brown, September 10, 2009 8:45 AM
[While Tony Jaa's Ong Bak 2 finally made it through its tortuous production process and arrived in Thai theaters to a hugely positive response - a response that has already led to a third Ong Bak film being confirmed...
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by Todd Brown, September 5, 2009 11:26 AM
Brace yourself for disappointment. As painful as it is to say, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo The Bulletman is far indeed from being the triumphant return to the iconic world that created a rabid cult around Tsukamoto. Worse than that, not...
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by Todd Brown, September 4, 2009 6:37 PM
[Twitch is undergoing some behind the scenes tire kicking and bolt-tightening over the next few days, work that may slow down the regular flow of new information a little bit. So, while that's going on we'll be presenting a...
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