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Finally got down a few thoughts about Zack Snyder’s collaboration with Chris Nolan to bring Superman to the big screen. Read More
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Going into Man of Steel I brought a lot of baggage. I’ve never been much of a Zack Snyder fan, and while I can appreciate his fanatically faithful adaptations of… Read More
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It has taken a long time for Derek Cianfrance’s crime drama to make it to Hong Kong (in fact it doesn’t even open officially here for another month) but it… Read More
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Murderball director Henry Alex Rubin turns his hand to fiction in this multi-stranded drama examining different forms of cyber-crime and our interconnectedness through technology. Similar in tone to something like… Read More
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I almost let this one pass me by, put off by the daunting 160 minute runtime, but my efforts were handsomely rewarded as Okita Shuichi’s adaptation of Yoshida Shuichi’s popular… Read More
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Chapman To, Shawn Yue, Matt Chow and Derek Tsang play five Special Duties Unit cops who head to Macau for a night of Category III-rated revelry. Written and produced by… Read More
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The first time I’ve seen Orson Welles’ mould-breaking classic on the big screen, and it looked as wonderful as ever. Not much to say that has not been said already,… Read More
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A rather baffling melange of horror, science-fiction and comedy that screams out to be embraced as a late night cult classic in the vein of Repo Man or director Don… Read More
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For what is purported to be his final theatrical release, director Steven Soderbergh goes for a pulpy trashy thriller rather than anything too highbrow. Rooney Mara plays a troubled young… Read More
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Made right off the back of Doctor Who and the Daleks‘ success, Peter Cushing reprises his role as the affable time traveller, who this time stays on Earth, albeit nearly… Read More
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Mainland actress Zhao Wei’s directorial debut has proved a huge hit on the mainland, and for 90 minutes of its over-long 130 minutes it is a charming story of young… Read More
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Plagued with problems every step of the way, running vastly overbudget, scraping and totally reshooting the entire third act, losing its core fanbase by largely disgarding Max Brooks’ source novel… Read More
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Nicolas Winding Refn was just 26 years old when his debut, Pusher, caused a stir both in his native Denmark and further afield. Refn’s grim portrayal of Copenhagen’s criminal underworld… Read More
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I am no kind of ice hockey fan, which should be evident from the fact I refer to it as “ice hockey”. But Legend No.17 was the opening film at… Read More
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Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky is responsible for some of the weirdest, most psychedelic movies of the 1970s. His breakthrough hit was the quasi-Western El Topo which become a monster hit on… Read More
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul are both excellent in this low budget comedy drama from director James Ponsoldt. They play a young couple, very much in love, who both… Read More
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A typically oddball tale of Japanese adolescence, but one that is hilarious, charming and delightfully off the wall. It centres on a typical 14-year-old boy, Maruyama, with an over-active imagination,… Read More
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I have been a huge champion of this film since first catching it at PiFan back in 2011. Michael R. Roskam’s directorial debut is a powerful crime epic, set in… Read More
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