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John Cho becomes the first Asian American actor ever to headline a mainstream Hollywood thriller in Aneesh Chaganty’s inventive webcam drama about a father searching for his missing daughter. Read More
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Arriving hot on the heels of Eric Matti’s similarly plotted but decidedly more entertaining BuyBust, Brillante Mendoza’s Alpha, the Right to Kill is a down and dirty frontline take on… Read More
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Gareth Evans, director of The Raid, returns home to Wales and whips up this dark, gothic, pseudo-religious thriller in the vein of The Wicker Man and Hammer Horror. (at 24:20) Read More
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The first solo feature from director Jevons Au focuses on the numerous problems and challenges facing special needs children, their families and the education system that struggles to accommodate them. Read More
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Ho Wi Ding’s noir-tinged triptych details three nights in the life of troubled Taiwan police detective Zhang Dong Ling, as his turbulent personal life repeatedly triggers eruptions of murderous violence.… Read More
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An undercover cop must fight for his life when he becomes an unwitting participant in a deadly game of cat and mouse in writer-director Jimmy Henderson’s ambitious follow-up to prison… Read More
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Damien Chazelle follows up his best director Oscar win for La La Land with a thrilling re-enactment of mankind’s giant leap. Ryan Gosling is perfectly cast as Neil Armstrong, the… Read More
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A young masterless samurai faces a crisis of confidence when he is called upon to defend a family of farmers from a marauding gang in Shinya Tsukamoto’s small scale samurai… Read More
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14 years after his Palme D’Or winning Fahrenheit 9/11, documentarian Michael Moore seizes the opportunity to conveniently flip his title and train his satirical eye on American politics once again.… Read More
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Tom Hardy gets his beak wet in the superhero genre once more, as journalist Eddie Brock who becomes infected by a nasty alien symbiote that morphs him into a Jeckyll… Read More
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A mysterious beast is running amok in the royal court in Monstrum, the first in a wave of upcoming Korean fantasies to blend period drama with full-blown horror. Zombie thriller… Read More
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Julianne Moore’s involvement in a project is normally as reliable a validation of quality filmmaking as one could hope for. But in the case of Bel Canto, Paul Weitz’s adaptation… Read More
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A Mumbai street magician embarks on a European odyssey and gets a taste of the immigrant experience in Ken Scott’s ambitious adaptation of Romain Puertolas’ bestselling novel. The Extraordinary Journey… Read More
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In the Italian city of Milan, Expo 2015 was a six-month celebration of technology and culture built around the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, which showcased evolving innovations… Read More
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Almost eight years after production began on Forever Young, the ambitious historical epic finally arrives on Hong Kong screens with precious little fanfare. Despite an all-star Chinese cast, writer-director Li… Read More
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It has been 31 years since the predator first landed on Earth to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Four wildly inferior sequels later, it falls to writer-director Shane Black… Read More
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Inspired by a real-life online query that went viral in Japan and spawned a song and bestselling manga, When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead is… Read More
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An actress of Emma Thompson’s calibre is rarely given a lead role worthy of her talents. In The Children Act, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, the Oscar-winning actress… Read More
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