Way back during this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, I had a chance to sit down face to face with one of the coolest Chinese action stars and one of the top martial arts stars in the wo... Read more
I’m always amazed when directors go from one extreme to the other when it comes to the types of films they make. Takeshi Miike is a notable example, but there is a Spanish director by the n... Read more
Directed by Peter Chan, Dragon, also known as Wu Xia, is a martial arts detective story that feels like a mash up of Sherlock Holmes, Star Wars and any movie where a criminal lives a reforme... Read more
Well, here it is: after several weeks of coverage, Flight is the closing film of the New York Film Festival. On one hand, it’s curious that the closing film is the festival’s mo... Read more
The biggest complaint most viewers have of David Chase‘s masterpiece HBO series The Sopranos is the finale’s unresolved ending. Fans of The Sopranos who might want to check out... Read more
Based on a true story and the bestselling novel by Pete Dexter, The Paperboy follows Miami Times journalist Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) and his writing partner Yardley Acheman (David O... Read more
Before the screening of Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, it was announced that the just-completed documentary (that is more than a decade in the making) has yet to... Read more
If you go to movies primarily for the visual experience, you’ll likely love much of Life of Pi. That’s because the film is beautiful, with director Ang Lee fully utilizing his p... Read more
Caesar Must Die is Italy’s official entry for next year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, and it is in some key ways its one of the most unique films I have seen in years. Italian dire... Read more
Yikes. I don’t know what Brian De Palma was thinking when he decided to take on this project, because Passion is a film that would be awful if any director made it. The fact that a t... Read more
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