SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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Veteran director Yoji Yamada returns with his first comedy in more than two decades, as a suburban middle-class family is thrown into disarray when the grandparents announce they are getting… Read More
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George Clooney plays a slippery TV financial adviser taken hostage by a desperate investor live on air in the polished but predictable Money Monster, Jodie Foster’s first directing effort since… Read More
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Yoshihiro Nakamura’s first foray into horror in more than a decade proves a cracking return to form, both for the director and the J-horror genre. Read my review Read More
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A new documentary paints an intriguing yet also frustrating picture of North Korea, its director having been granted unprecedented access to Asia’s most secretive nation. Read my review Read More
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While The Walking Dead sees audiences worldwide continue to invite zombies into their homes, undead offerings on the big screen have been comparatively lifeless of late. Shinsuke Sato’s blindly enthusiastic… Read More
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Committed fans of felines and flatulence may find a modicum of entertainment in this threadbare sequel to the hit 2014 movie Neko Samurai (Samurai Cat in English), but for the… Read More
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Hot on the heels of the excellent Veteran , Inside Men is a similarly slick South Korean thriller exposing high-level corruption in equally brutal and compelling fashion. Read my review Read More
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An ageing couple’s marriage is put through the wringer when an unexpected letter arrives in 45 Years, a meticulously crafted drama that has won worldwide praise and plaudits for leads… Read More
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Angst in all its ugly forms fuels Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s first English language film, as a family continues to reel from the death of its matriarch five years on.… Read More
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Martial arts fans anticipating Sammo Hung Kam-bo’s first directorial effort in close to 20 years will be left sorely disappointed by The Bodyguard. Read my review Read More
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A disparate group of loners, dreamers and extraterrestrials congregate at a restaurant to contemplate their fate in Japanese filmmaker Koki Mitani’s feeble, sluggish comedy. Read my review Read More
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In the wake of critically and commercially successful Taiwanese films such as Wei Te-sheng’s period war epic Seediq Bale (2011) and Umin Boya’s feel-good baseball drama Kano (2014), there are… Read More
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A wayward tween and her ex-con uncle form an unlikely duo in Mark Noonan’s low-key drama, set in a remote part of Ireland’s Midlands Region. Read my review Read More
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Grief, memory and the importance of letting go are all central to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest drama, which won the best director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of last… Read More
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Seth Grahame-Smith ushered in a stream of high-concept literary mash-ups with his 2009 novel Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, which has since spawned such diverse publications as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire… Read More
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The latest offering from wayward director David Gordon Green (Our Brand Is Crisis, Pineapple Express) stars Al Pacino as a reclusive, heartbroken locksmith who is given a final shot at… Read More
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The perfect lives of two beautiful people living in an idyllic small-town setting are thrown into chaos when they fall in love in The Choice, the eleventh screen adaptation of… 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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