Set sporadically between multiple timelines, Dealer/Healer is a biopic about a former junkie drug dealer turned drug counsellor that struggles to capture the imagination. Set in Hong Kong, d... Read more
When a festival describes a film as “a gloriously irreverent mash-up of White Men Can’t Jump, Rain Man, and Kingpin.” It makes it difficult for any film fan to turn away and skip that film. ... Read more
The beginning of the 2017 New York Film Festival has finally arrived and this year the curators have managed to surprise and delight audiences with the international premiere of a movie call... Read more
Looking at Keeper of Darkness on paper, you’d be thrown off by how much fun this film really is. You read the premise, you see the style and you watch the opening few minutes and you’re sett... Read more
The closing night film for this year’s NYAFF is Adam Tsuei’s dark comedy The Tenants Downstairs. This new Taiwanese feature follows a Landlord (Simon Yam) who runs an apartment building full... Read more
Crime and comedy are at the forefront here in this South Korean caper which brings inspired elements from Hollywood flicks such as Shawshank Redemption and Ocean’s Eleven. Byun Jae-Wook (Hwa... Read more
With a vague opening, an array of super long one-shots, and a plot that somehow both impresses and frustrates, Alone delivers a miss-matched thriller that will divide audiences. After the om... Read more
One of the films I was most excited to see at this year’s NYAFF was Woo Min-ho’s crime thriller, Inside Men. Starring Lee Byung-hun (GI Joe), Jo Seung-woo, Beak Yoon-sik, and Lee Kyoung-you... Read more
Time is of great importance in this Chinese crime drama, as actor Ruofu Wu gets an up close look at an experience that could have proven fatal over a decade ago. Eyes usually roll when you s... Read more
Stephen Chow is one of a handful of directors from Hong Kong whose films I will watch without fail. The guy has a great handle on genuine slapstick humor and is one of the few who is able t... Read more
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