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Stephen Chow Sing-chi infuses his latest romantic comedy with a powerful ecological message, as a beautiful young mermaid is tasked with seducing the rich tycoon who is destroying her ocean… Read More
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Michelle Yeoh reprises her role as lovelorn warrior Shu Lien this belated sequel to Ang Lee’s worldwide smash hit wuxia drama, directed by Hong Kong action legend Yuen Wo-ping. Read… Read More
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Pixar’s latest takes their familiar mis-matched buddy format into a strange and uncertain prehistoric setting. Listen to my review Read More
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The fourth big screen outing for Jason Lee and his trio of CGI rodents. Listen to my review Read More
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Quentin Tarantino returns with another bloodsoaked western, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Listen to my review Read More
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Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton head up this journalism drama that’s proving a major awards contender. Listen to my review Read More
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Cheang Pou-soi’s sequel to his own 2014 monster hit ($168m in China alone) is a considerably more coherent and assured production, boasting slick visuals and spirited central performances from Aaron… Read More
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Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt bet against the American economy in Adam McKay’s comedy-drama. Listen to my review Read More
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Robert De Niro sinks to a new low when he drags grandson Zac Efron to Miami for one final fling. Listen to my review Read More
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It is no easy task to make Sandra Bullock unlikeable on screen, but director David Gordon Green manages just that in his toothless South American political satire that squanders its… Read More
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Opening with a busload of schoolgirls being violently sheared in half by a malevolent wind, Sion Sono’s Tag certainly gets off to a promising start. Read my review Read More
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Director Nobuhiro Yamashita, who scored a massive hit with Linda Linda Linda, delivers another musically fuelled comedy drama about a young hoodlum who finds his voice fronting a traditional pop… Read More
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Acclaimed director Feng Xiaogang stars as an ailing, retired gangster, who returns to the fray after a group of rich-kid punks kidnap his teenage son. Read my review Read More
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Chen Sicheng follows up romantic anthology Beijing Love Story (2014) with this high-energy crime caper in which a down-at-heel detective in Bangkok’s Chinatown goes on the run after being implicated… Read More
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After breaking box office records in China with his 2012 film, Painted Skin: The Resurrection, director Wuershan returns with the star-studded fantasy adventure Mojin – The Lost Legend, which follows… Read More
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Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet star in Danny Boyle’s inventive biopic of the controversial Apple founder. Listen to my review Read More
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No sooner has The Hunger Games been laid to rest than another dystopian sci-fi franchise is born with this big-screen adaptation of Rick Yancey’s warmly received young-adult page turner. Read… Read More
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Hong Kong cinema has long been sympathetic to the plight of the city’s sex workers, but Venus Keung Kwok-man’s slapdash sequel to last year’s The Gigolo, with its nonsensical depiction… Read More
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