Review
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Two years after its premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival, first-time director Chen Shizhong’s rural drama Good Autumn, Mommy finally makes it to Hong Kong screens, arriving at an… Read More
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Winner of the Golden Leopard at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, the latest film by All the Long Nights director Sho Miyake is a beautifully staged and delicately poised rumination… Read More
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Steve, a former Evangelist, and I – the son of a preacher man – found plenty to talk about in the third instalment of Rian Johnson’s delightful Knives Out series… Read More
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Rami Malek stars as the real-life psychiatrist assigned to monitor Nazi general Herman Goring during the Nuremberg show trials in this all-star retelling. Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant… Read More
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The last few days have seen Hong Kong reeling from the unspeakable tragedy of the fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, which has left at least 146 people… Read More
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Edgar Wright directs Glen Powell in this largely faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s early sci-fi effort. A huge departure from the beloved 1987 version, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the results may… Read More
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Taiwanese screen goddess Shu Qi draws from her experiences working with Hou Hsiao-hsien for her semi-autobiographical directorial debut, a tough yet rewarding story of a young girl growing up in… Read More
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As part of our Every Best Picture series, long-time friend of the show Pierce Conran finally joins us to discuss Billy Wilder’s absolutely delightful winner from 1960, starring Jack Lemmon… Read More
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Netflix’s latest Taiwanese drama series, Had I Not Seen the Sun, follows a convicted serial killer (played by Tseng Jing-hua) who agrees to a documentary interview after years of speculation… Read More
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Set in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong towards the end of World War II, Against All Odds sees the attempted rescue of an American pilot intersecting with an assassination plot to eliminate… Read More
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Anchored by an astonishing central performance from Ryo Yoshizawa and a fastidious devotion to the traditional art of kabuki theatre, Lee Sang-il’s sumptuous saga Kokuho emerges as the finest Japanese… Read More
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In Last Samurai Standing, 292 fighters from across the land assemble for a merciless showdown to the death in the late 19th century, at the dawn of Japan’s transformative Meiji… Read More
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Mary Shelley’s gothic classic may well be a lifelong passion project for visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, but in this episode Steve & James do a deep dive on why… Read More
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Elle Fanning plays a bisected android who teams up with a deadly yautja predator to survive a hostile planet in Dan Trachtenberg’s latest reimagining of the science fiction action franchise,… Read More
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Yorgos Lanthimos takes on the challenge of remaking the 2003 South Korean cult classic “Save the Green Planet” this time with Emma Stone playing the corporate CEO and Jesse Plemons… Read More
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Guilt proves to be a powerful trigger for a retired bomb disposal expert in the Taiwanese action thriller 96 Minutes, when his past mistakes prove every bit as deadly as… Read More
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Is A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow’s next masterpiece, or does it fall short? With Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba delivering gripping performances, the film promises tension and drama—but does… Read More
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A former Las Vegas magician and a young bride-to-be form an unlikely crime-fighting duo in Black Showman, a murder mystery adapted from Keigo Higashino’s bestselling novel by director Ryo Tanaka,… Read More
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