Review
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Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez teams up with actor-writer-producer Eli Roth for a horror-disaster movie hybrid that sees a dispirate group of tourists and revellers battle to survive after a massive… Read More
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Shane Carruth follows up his impressive, confounding 2004 time-travel mindbender, Primer, with this equally ambitious science fiction thriller. Less easy to pigeonhole, Upstream Color is the story of a young… Read More
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Abel Ferrara’s King of New York was a milestone film for me in many ways. In my early years as a voracious film fan, I graduated from typical adventure fare… Read More
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In the spring of 1968, Gilles and his high school friends become increasingly caught up in the demonstrations that are turning ugly on the streets of Paris. After defacing their… Read More
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The latest from Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) sees the Iranian auteur continue his globe-trotting which began with 2010’s Certified Copy. In Like Someone in Love, he heads for Japan,… Read More
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I have been a big fan of director Ben Wheatley since his debut, Down Terrace, and for my money he is getting better and better with each film he makes.… Read More
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The great thing about attending a large international film festival like HKIFF is the element of discovery. There is always plenty of variety on offer, much of which even someone… Read More
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Until now the only time I had seen this film was at university, where our Film Studies lecturer insisted that we included it during the opening semester programme of the… Read More
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Sam Raimi’s spiritual prequel to MGM’s 1939 evergreen classic, The Wizard of Oz, is an incredibly mixed bag, that shows a degree of visual flourish and fun for younger viewers,… Read More
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I am in serious danger of over-hyping Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer, for the simple reason that I thought it was going to be rubbish, and it really isn’t.… Read More
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South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s English language debut is a sultry and languid noir set in the American Deep South. At the funeral of her father, who died on her… Read More
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Re-watching this film for the first time since it played at the HK Asian Film Festival in 2005, I was finally able to check out the “Fade to Black &… Read More
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I was a big fan of Sinister when it screened at FrightFest in London last August, where I found it to be the scariest film of the weekend. At a… Read More
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Steven Spielberg assembles an incredible cast of noted character performers for this dense and stately, yet thoroughly compelling history lesson. As a Brit, my knowledge of American history, and the… Read More
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Rapper-turned-filmmaker RZA writes, directs and stars as the titular hero of this passionate love letter to old school Chinese martial arts movies. It is widely known that the founder of… Read More
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I had heard nothing but great things about this movie, and was still kicking myself for missing a press screening back in December. Fernando had it on his Best of… Read More
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