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Minamata | Review

Man with a Movie Camera: Levitas Aims for Noble Rendering of Horrific Toxic Waste Contamination You’ve heard it before---corporate greed and government corruption colluding to...

Mortal Kombat | Review

Enter the Franchise: McQuoid Revives the Fisticuffs & Fantasies of Beloved Video Game In the continual fluctuations of franchise reboots and revivals, the resurgence of...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #96. Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider

The Outsider Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet scored his first international success with his third feature, 2015’s tense WWII film Land of Mine (read review), which competed in...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 82. Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider

The Outsider Director: Martin Zandvliet Writer: Andrew Baldwin Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet scored his first international success with his third feature, 2015’s tense WWII film Land of...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #23. Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin

The Assassin Director(s): Hou Hsiao-Hsien // Writer(s): Hou Hsiao-Hsien T’ien-wen Chu Chinese auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien has been steadily working since the early 1980’s, coming to great...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #56. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey to the Shore

Journey to the Shore Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa// Writer: Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is most revered for his genre work, including the fantastically...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #27. Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin

The Assassin Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien Writer: T'ien-wen Chu Producer: Wen-Ying Huang U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ethan Ruan and Nikki Hsieh, with Ni...

47 Ronin | Review

Rawhide Chew: Rinsch’s CGI Laden Retelling a Cardboard Snooze The story of the 47 Ronin, a Japanese tale based in historical fact that has become...

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