Not all remakes are created equal, and when a French director sets out to remake one of the undeniable classics of cinema, John Ford‘s The Searchers, you’d expect an uproar from... Read more
Cafe. Waiting. Love finishes off a trio of excellent films that I watched over the past 24 hours. This quirky, offbeat Taiwanese comedy by director Chiang Chin-lin and written by Giddens Ho... Read more
Back in 2013, I attended Denver, Colorado’s Mile High Horror Film Festival, and sat down to watch the film Septic Man. With a storyline that surrounded one sewage system worker’s... Read more
Based off a popular short manga series, A Farewell To Jinu (money, that is) is billed as a ‘slice of life’ comedy that starts off strongly but slowly begins to lose interest whil... Read more
Billed as a comedy but plays out more like a comedic drama, with a lot less laughs than I imagine director Kei Morikaw was hoping for, Makeup Room fails to shine as a film that portrays the... Read more
Japanese director Lisa Takeba brings to us perhaps one of the quirkiest films you’re likely to see in recent years that’ll leave you laughing and scratching your head simultaneou... Read more
Hibi Rock: Puke Afro and the Pop Star comes from the award wining manga series of the same name. How true it is as an adaptation with no prior knowledge is hard to know, but after an enjoya... Read more
Let’s cut right to the chase. This is a very particular style of film and unless it hits your ‘spot’ you won’t like it. I unfortunately fall into the latter half of t... Read more
Making its North American premiere tonight at the Japan Cuts festival is Masaharu Take’s comedic sports drama, 100 Yen Love. 32 year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) spends her days living in her mo... Read more
It took less than five minutes of watching Lee Byeong-Hun‘s South Korean coming-of-age comedy to know I was hooked. It didn’t take too long after that to realise that (subject to... Read more
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