Review
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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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Pier Paolo Pasolini is a fascinating, if challenging filmmaker, who I have only fairly recently begun to fully appreciate. As is probably the case with numerous other critics of my… Read More
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Writer-director Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness) does a pretty excellent job of adapting Isaac Marion’s novel, Warm Bodies, for the big screen. Nicholas Hoult (best remembered as the young lad… Read More
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Robert Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director of Forrest Gump and Back To The Future, returns to live action for the first time in more than a decade, directing his first R… Read More
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I had put off watching this much-lauded documentary for most of 2012 for one reason or another, but after finally catching it today I don’t know why I waited so… Read More
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A full year after it emerged as the buzz title from Sundance 2012, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild finally reaches Hong Kong, buoyed up by 4 Academy Award… Read More
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I arrived at Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock prepared for an underwhelming big screen depiction of the Master of Suspense during the making of his most famous film, Psycho. Muted praise and… Read More
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David O. Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel has received a huge awards push this season, becoming the first film since Reds in 1982 to receive nominations in all four… Read More
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