The English debut of South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook is hell bent on cashing every cinematic chip he banked from a cache of cult built on hits like Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. At...
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Silver Linings Playbook is one of those films with a number of scene-stealing supporting characters. Chief among them is the one played with scene-chewing relish by Robert De Niro; but those...
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On the face of it, Lost in Thailand is a modest comic road movie by first-time director Xu Zheng, who also stars in, wrote and produced the film. (To make it even more of a family affair, Xu's...
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Hollywood generally might be obsessed with teen audiences, but as the Baby Boomer generation ages, an increasing number of films are also made about golden ponds and bucket lists. The latest...
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With six different plot threads twined together, Cloud Atlas is as lofty-minded as the title suggests. Based on another so-called unfilmable novel - this one by British author David Mitchell even...
In 2012, K-pop garnered global attention with Psy and his Gangnam Style. But while South Korean movies did well at home last year, they weren't as successful in overseas territories such as Hong...
The 18th film written and directed by South Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk begins with a scene showing a man in a wheelchair attempting to commit suicide. Shortly afterwards, a woman's scream fills the...
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is an equivocal affair. It graphically depicts the horrors of slavery, while at the same time revelling in them in an exploitative B-movie fashion. Its...
Back in 1996, the filmmaking trio of Andrew Lau Wai-keung, Manfred Wong Man-jun and Wong Jing struck cinematic gold with movie adaptations of Cow Man (Ngau Lo)'s Rascals comic books. So popular...
There are not many new lessons to be gleamed from The Impossible, a harrowing, detailed re-creation of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Basically, you learn tidal waves are bad and you don't want your...
Before he appeared in A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer (1989) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Chow Yun-fat achieved fame and popularity with The Bund, a 1980 TVB series about two...
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