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Nearly 40 years after Chor Yuen launched his acting career in the Shaw Brothers classic Death Duel, director Derek Yee returns to Gu Long’s source novel for a ravishing new… Read More
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Ten years after Apocalypto, Mel Gibson returns to directing following a decade of personal crises that threatened to sink his career. Read my review Read More
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The latest offering from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess tells the true story of a record-breaking armoured car robbery: US$17 million in cash was stolen by the company’s own employees… Read More
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Why would anyone want to watch a film about Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson’s first date? Read my review Read More
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Last year saw Ringo Lam, the acclaimed Hong Kong director behind such action spectaculars as City on Fire and Full Contact, stage a comeback with his first feature film in… Read More
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Eddie Redmayne takes top billing in this big budget prequel to the Harry Potter series, but it’s the supporting players who steal the show. Listen to my review Read More
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Michael Moore sets out to invade countries with desirable systems of government and social services, to claim them for the US in his latest documentary. Listen to my review Read More
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Body swapping, time displacement and comets of mass destruction all feature prominently in Makoto Shinkai’s heart-wrenching adolescent romance. Read my review Read More
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Emily Blunt is the titular heroine in this pulpy adaptation of the hit novel that arguably strikes a better tone than Fincher’s Gone Girl, but is nevertheless deeply flawed. Listen… Read More
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Seth Rogen and Kristen Wiig head up the voice cast in this gleefully outrageous animated comedy about supermarket food discovering their fate. Listen to my review Read More
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Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk follows a group of Iraq war veterans who return to the US in 2004 for a brief victory tour,… Read More
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Na Hong-jin returns with a brilliant and deeply unsettling thriller about small town paranoia and grisly murder. Listen to my review (at 34:00) Read More
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Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake sing and dance and hug as brightly-coloured bequiffed trolls out to rescue their village from certain death. Listen to my review (at 25:45) Read More
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Tom Hanks runs around Florence in his third Robert Langdon adaptation, but a tour of Dante’s Nine Circles might have been more enjoyable. Listen to my review Read More
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As its title proclaims, Feng Xiaogang’s bureaucratic satire I Am Not Madame Bovary has no direct connection to Flaubert’s adulterous heroine. Read my review Read More
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Boo Junfeng’s second feature is an absorbing and impactful drama about a young man, who takes a job at the maximum security prison where his own father was executed. Listen… Read More
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton star in Marvel’s latest superhero entry, introducing audiences to the magical multiverse. Listen to my review Read More
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Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (2013’s Twenty Feet from Stardom) teams up with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma to tell the fascinating and emotionally stirring tale of the Silk Road Ensemble. Read… Read More
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