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 is both irresistible and goofy . Siying (Vivian Sung) is a university freshman who one day follows a cute, nameless guy (Marcus Chang) to a […] Read more
If the Fantastic Four were a real family I’d feel terrible for them. Three films in and now they’ve struck out. Josh Trank’s reboot of the popular Marvel family is one gigantic set-up that offers nothing to the audience until the very end. Fantastic Four focuses on four young individuals who teleport to another universe, […] 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 journey into a septic tank filled with disease-riddled water and ‘becoming’ a man, covered in feces, turning into some sort of putrid underground sewer creature, I have to say I […] 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 while developing a slightly saturated story that becomes a bit difficult to follow. Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank clerk who becomes […] 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 behind the scenes actions of the Japanese porn industry. The Makeup Room sees the makeup artist (Morita Aki) arrive […] Read more
Chris Farley was a comedic legend that died too soon. He was a burley comedian that, strangely enough, followed a similar trajectory to the great John Beluschi. They were both massive stars that came out of the notorious improv club Second City and then burst onto the TV scene with Saturday Night Live only to […] Read more
As a man, it’s hard not to love boxing movies. As an American man, I find it to be even harder. There’s something about the idea of persevering, training hard, and wailing on an opponent that’s very attractive to viewers. The reason we love boxing movies so much is that we’re usually guaranteed to see […] Read more
Much of the buzz surrounding Ant-Man these past few months has not been warm due to the departure of the film’s original director, Edgar Wright. His replacement, Peyton Reed, did not inspire much hope amongst fans either. (Reed is best known for Bring It On and Yes Man). Wright had been attached to Ant-Man since […] 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 simultaneously. Haruko’s Paranormal Laboratory centres around Haruko (Moeka Nozaki), a outsider who has always wanted something fantastically surreal and paranormal to happen to her, but it never […] 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 enjoyably brutal, bloody opening fight scene that makes you laugh and sets a tone for the film, an event shortly follows […] Read more
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