Review
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Anchored by an energetic central performance from 18-year-old Suzu Hirose, Let’s Go, Jets! repackages the well-worn sports drama into an engaging coming-of-age tale about competitive cheerleading at a remote Japanese… Read More
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Taiwanese director Cheng Wei-hao follows up his supernatural horror film The Tag-Along with the story of a disgraced journalist attempting to solve a forgotten hit-and-run case. Read my review Read More
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Few pastimes are less fruitful than watching someone else play a video game, although this full-length feature does its utmost to prove otherwise. Unlike the seemingly endless stream of Milla… Read More
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Following the success of last year’s What a Wonderful Family!, veteran Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada reunites the Hirata clan for a second round of family misfortunes. Read my review Read More
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Zhang Dalei’s autobiographical drama lovingly evokes that Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s as it depicts a summer of great change for a young boy and the Chinese nation. (at… Read More
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With The Mummy, Universal Pictures launches its Dark Universe, a series of horror-tinged blockbusters that will reintroduce the studio’s classic movie monsters in a modern-day setting. But not even the… Read More
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Vincent Zhao stars as the eponymous military tactician in Gordon Chan’s sweeping action epic, following the efforts of the Ming army to keep a fleet of fearsome Japanese pirates at… Read More
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During a formidable career that spanned seven decades, filmmaker Andrzej Wajda won an Academy Award and the Palme D’Or, and is widely acknowledged as the godfather of Polish cinema. Read… Read More
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Anton Yelchin, in one of his final roles, stars opposite French actress Lucie Lucas in a Rashomon-esque tale of a one-night stand and the emotional impact it has on both… Read More
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At a time when men in certain circles feel compelled and emboldened to weaponise their fragility in the face of advancing feminism, the world needs a hero like Wonder Woman… Read More
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Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow once again, this time going in search of Poseidon’s trident, whilst being pursued across the Seven Seas by Javier Bardem’s spectral Captain Salazar. (at… Read More
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In its 1990s heyday, Baywatch commanded a weekly audience of more than 1 billion viewers worldwide, earning itself the mantle of “the most-watched show on television”. Read my review Read More
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Nominated for Oscars this year for best foreign language film and best make-up and hairstyling, A Man Called Ove is Sweden’s answer to Frank Capra’s Yuletide classic It’s a Wonderful… Read More
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Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams star in Jordan Peele’s blockbuster directorial debut, which falls somewhere between Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? and The Stepford Wives. Read More
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Herman Yau and Anthony Wong reunite for a grisly supernatural horror that tells parallel narratives in the 90s and Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. Listen to my review Read More
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Japanese studio Nikkatsu’s successful run of “roman porno” reboots stumbles with its fourth offering, a leery and unimaginative tale of infatuation and jealousy. Read my review Read More
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Kristen Stewart reunites with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas for a very bizarre ghost story, in which the former Twilight star searches for a connection with the Other Side (at 30:00). Read More
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Pang Ho Cheung reunites Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue for a third dose of contemporary Hong Kong romantic woes in the third part of his surprisingly amusing trilogy. Read More
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