Review
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It is with decidedly mixed feelings that audiences approach season two of Netflix’s The Sandman. They may be eager on the one hand to witness more of the show adapted… Read More
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By turns absorbing and unsatisfying, Malaysian drama Pavane for an Infant throws a spotlight on a thankless vocation in dire need of compassionate support, but does so at the expense… Read More
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Long-delayed superhero fantasy Hi-Five finally sees the light of day, almost four years after wrapping principal photography. The film was put on hold indefinitely when one of its stars, Yoo… Read More
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A mysterious serial killer taunts a pair of mismatched detectives with a cryptic string of murders dating back years in Nine Puzzles, a new series starring Kim Da-mi (Itaewon Class)… Read More
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Writer-director Ryan Coogler reunites with regular leading man Michael B. Jordan for a gangster-cum-vampire mash-up that takes dead aim at Jim Crow-era America while celebrating the cultural potency of music.… Read More
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After meeting in prison, two young women attempt to get their lives back on track in We Girls, a toe-curlingly moralistic fable from director Feng Xiaogang. The films bends over… Read More
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With three of Japan’s most accomplished actresses under 30 – Suzu Hirose, Hana Sugisaki and Kaya Kiyohara – performing under the assured stewardship of director Nobuhiro Doi, and with a… Read More
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Netflix advances its robust slate of female-fronted Taiwanese drama series with Forget You Not, written and directed by Rene Liu Ruo-ying and starring Hsieh Ying-xuan as a middle-aged woman who… Read More
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Anime compilation films are far from a new phenomenon. Since the 1970s, feature-length re-edits of animated television series have been a mainstay in Japanese cinemas. Offering diehard fans the opportunity… Read More
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Supernatural thriller Holy Night: Demon Hunters might better have been titled “Ma Dong-seok: Demon Puncher”. This lowbrow exercise in low-rent exorcism offers little more than the hulking Korean superstar, also… Read More
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Kurosawa delivers a shamelessly commercial adventure story that proved a direct influence on George Lucas’ Star Wars. Always a good time introducing Steve to Asian classics. Read More
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After breathing new life into some of Japanese cinema’s most beloved monsters in Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman, animator-turned-director Shinji Higuchi now turns his attention to the classic 1970s disaster… Read More
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First dates can be murder. This is especially true for Violet (Meghann Fahy), the heroine of Christopher Landon’s latest high-concept thriller, Drop, who receives anonymous and increasingly threatening messages on her… Read More
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We are joined by Steve’s son Gabriel to discuss David Lean’s towering World War II adventure epic, featuring an Oscar-winning performance from the great Alec Guinness. Read More
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An ordinary working-class family is turned upside-down when their 13-year-old son is arrested for murder. Stephen Graham co-one of the year’s most controversial and acclaimed television series. Steve and I… Read More
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Takuya Kimura chases 3 Michelin stars while butchering the French language in this Paris-set big-screen spin-off to the hit Japanese TV show. Read More
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Steve and I have mixed feelings about the latest science fiction oddity from Bong Joon-ho, the Academy Award winning South Korean filmmaker behind Parasite, Memories of Murder, The Host, and… Read More
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Seasoned television director Ayuko Tsukahara (La Grande Maison Tokyo) plunders many of the same themes she explored in her 2018 feature debut Cafe Funiculi Funicula in her latest big-screen venture,… Read More
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