James Marsh
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Douglas Fairbanks, “the first King of Hollywood”, is today remembered as the star of numerous silent swashbuckling epics, including The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood. Read… Read More
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Close to twenty years since folkloric action hero Wong Fei Hung last graced the big screen, director Roy Chow Hin Yeung and star Eddie Peng Yuyan bring him back to… Read More
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Interstellar is quite possibly Christopher Nolan’s most personal film to-date, a grand spectacle of deep space exploration involving wormholes and theories of relativity, but which ultimately rests on the relationship… Read More
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I’m a sucker for watching older films restored on the big screen, so the fact that the Hong Kong Film Archive is currently screening a series of classic World War… Read More
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Interstellar is quite possibly Christopher Nolan’s most personal film to-date, a grand spectacle of deep space exploration involving wormholes and theories of relativity, but which ultimately rests on the relationship… Read More
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The long, punishing arm of China’s censorship board still hangs heavy over the career of mainland filmmaker Ning Hao. The once-exciting auteur turns in another safe, audience-friendly offering with Breakup… Read More
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Donnie Yen plays a convicted murderer sprung from jail to help track down a serial killer targeting martial arts masters in Teddy Chen’s appreciably nostalgic action thriller. Read my review Read More
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Four years after Gareth Edwards exploded onto the sci-fi scene with his inventive and industrious indie alien invasion flick Monsters, first-time director Tom Green delivers a sequel that bears little… Read More
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Few actors can make a mid-life crisis seem appealing, but as Dan, the dishevelled alcoholic music producer in John Carney’s Begin Again, Mark Ruffalo does precisely that. Nursing a failed… Read More
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Yee Chih-yen, Taiwanese director of the much-celebrated Blue Gate Crossing, delivers a heartfelt, humorous and poignant coming of age story in Meeting Dr. Sun. Part high school drama, part adventurous… Read More
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It is understandable that Warner Brothers and New Line would want to continue the success of last year’s The Conjuring. The period haunted house flick proved a surprise summer smash… Read More
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Gone Girl looks very much like a David Fincher film, with its washed out colour palette, earthy hues and now-obligatory Reznor/Ross soundtrack, but it sure doesn’t play like one. Read More
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Gone Girl looks very much like a David Fincher film, with its washed out colour-palette, earthy hues and now-obligatory Reznor/Ross soundtrack, but it sure doesn’t play like one. Fincher has… Read More
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South Korean indie provocateur Lee Sang-woo returns with the third and final instalment in his thematic “bad family” trilogy, which follows three grown up brothers, reunited when their pedophile father… Read More
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The latest in a string of stylish crime thrillers to emerge from Scandinavia, Tommy is the new film from Swedish director Tarik Saleh, and offers a blistering change of pace… Read More
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Keanu Reeves successfully reinvents himself once again, this time as a former assassin forced out of retirement by the shenanigans of nasty Russian mobsters, in this lovingly nostalgic shoot-em-up from… Read More
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One of the more notorious production debacles in recent memory, the maelstrom behind the scenes of New Line’s The island of Dr. Moreau (1996) is the subject of this candid… Read More
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One of the more notorious production debacles in recent memory, the maelstrom behind the scenes of New Line’s The island of Dr. Moreau (1996) is the subject of this candid… Read More
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