BBC Review: Is Fantastic Four really a mess?
How decadently bloated is our summer-movie culture? It's so inflated that less, on occasion, really can feel like more. Josh Trank,...
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TODAY Review: Ms J Contemplates Her Choice
Kit Chan stars in a film that explores what happens when choice itself becomes destiny SINGAPORE "“ Ms J Contemplates Her...
InSing Review: Our Sister Mambo
Early this year, we featured Our Sister Mambo, in our "˜Definitive Guide to New Singapore Films 2015', where we already anticipated...
South China Morning Post Review: Lawrence Lau’s Queen of Temple Street (1990)
It is rare for an old film to seem like a recently made work set in a past era, but such...
InCinemas Review: Twenty
Coming-of-age comedy dramas are always palatable simply because the youth relate to growing up and the adults reminisce their youth. With...
South China Morning Post Review: Flowers of Taipei – on Taiwan cinema’s global reach
For those who don't know much about its titular subject, Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema gives a wonderful primer on...
South China Morning Post Review: The Taking of Tiger Mountain – director goes too far
Veteran director Tsui Hark has always been one for the visuals, and this reworking of Qu Bo's novel Tracks in the...
Film Business Asia Review: Prophecy
Based on a manga by TSUTSUI Tetsuya ç’井哲也, Prophecy starts with the promising idea of a geeky group of social terrorists...
Variety Review: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s ‘The Assassin’
In the seven years since Hou Hsiao-hsien began working on a ninth-century wuxia epic, his admirers have been madly curious about how...
Online Athens Review: When Marnie Was There
After the 2013 release of the Academy Award-nominated "The Wind Rises", renowned director and Studio Ghibli co-creator Hayao Miyazaki ("My Neighbor...
Film Business Asia Review: Pieta in the Toilet
The first feature of indie film-maker and occasional actor MATSUNAGA Daishi¸ - best known for his documentary Pyuupiru 2001-2008 (2010), about the...
SINdie Review: Fundamentally Happy by Tan Bee Thiam and Lei Yuan Bin
Fundamentally Happy, adapted from the namesake play staged in 2006, has rich material to cull from. The 2006 production is the...