REVIEWS

Although they seem ubiquitous nowadays, film remakes and reboots are really nothing new. In fact, they go as far back as 1896, when Georges Méliès remade Louis Lumière's 43 second short ‘Partie de Cartes’ as the comparatively expansive 67 second ‘Une Partie de Cartes.’ In the decades since, Hollywood has churned out countless remakes- a few inspired, many mediocre and plenty that never should’ve slithered onto screens in the first place.  While something of a commercial succe

Ever since bursting onto the scene with 1998’s raucous ‘The Quiet Family’, Kim Jee-woon has been one of the most exciting filmmakers...

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons database over 600,000 people go missing in the United States of America every...

The partnership of Ringo Lam and Chow Yun-fat has resulted in some brilliant films. Their first collaboration, ‘City on Fire,’ helped...

In a weird Western wasteland, a bandit by the name of Wong A-Ping- known ominously as The Killer- is something of a legend. Unstoppable...

Takagi is just an average salaryman toiling away in a dead-end job. One fateful Monday, he awakens in a strange hotel room. He has no...

Harry Kilmer is a retired detective whiling away his days at the beach in Malibu. An old friend named George Tanner contacts him with a...

Cousins Thomas and David are the premier skateboarding, food-van operating team in Barcelona. One day, the two visit David's father at...

One can never be sure what they'll find when going into a Takashi Miike picture. The man has shot so many films in a variety of genres,...

Lao Luo is an aging stuntman whose best years are behind him. Estranged from his daughter, in debt and out of work, he and his horse Red...

Kaze is a drifter, walking stoically through life with no real purpose or direction in mind. He sleeps amid the homeless with no company...

Do films about figures from reality need to be entirely factual? The fractious reaction to Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ seems to suggest...

Takeshi Kitano has never played by the rules- unless it's just so he can break them. Ever since his directorial debut ‘Violent Cop’, he’s...

In a 1975 interview with Wayne Warga, Charles Bronson stated that he felt miscast as vigilante Paul Kersey in Michael Winner’s ‘Death...

Nicolas Cage seems drawn to the surreal. From David Lynch’s ‘Wild at Heart’ to Sion Sono’s ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland,’ he has appeared...

In 2019, Takeshi Kitano released ‘Kubi,’ a Samurai novel, retelling the events of the 1582 Honnō-ji incident, in which the powerful...

It is the 1930’s, and naïve country boy Kuo Cheng-Wah has just arrived in Hong Kong. A violent gang war has broken out over the city,...

Some films are so bad they’re good. Tommy Wiseau’s ‘The Room’, or Claudio Fragasso’s ‘Troll 2,’ are hilarious because of their ineptness,...

It is 1991, and Somalia is under the iron grip of President Barre’s military junta. The good-humoured Han Shin-sung is the South Korean...

Ellie is a single mother living with her three children- Danny, Brigit and Kassie- in a rundown apartment block. Her sister Beth- a...