While heading home from class, three classmates, none of whom are friends, discover the body of a girl in an alleyway shortly after she jumped off a balcony. After giving a statement and being forced to visit the school’s emotionally inept counsellor, the students become convinced there is more to the girl’s suicide than people […] Read more
With the NYAFF officially commencing from my perspective, the first film I decided to watch was a Taiwanese crowd-pleaser called Second Chance, directed by Wen-Yen Kung. Second Chance is what happens when you ask Disney to make Rocky but instead of boxing, the sport of choice is billiards, specifically nine-ball. Once that sinks in, you […] Read more
As we enter into July, now starts my favourite time of the year on the film calendar here at Movie Buzzers, for it’s the start of the 14th New York Asian Film Festival (June 26th – July 11th). Being a native to the UK I don’t get to enjoy the festival in all its glory, instead mostly […] Read more
The tail end of June and the first half of July becomes very Asian-centric here at Movie Buzzers. Most of this is due to our coverage of the NYAFF and Japan Cuts Festival but this bit of news is a bit more mainstream and is for a film that I’ve been reporting on since news […] Read more
I’m a massive fan of Jalmari Helander’s feature film debut, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. It’s a fantastical horror adventure that puts a great and unique twist on the Christmas movie genre. The Finnish film is a blast to watch and instantly put the writer/director on the map for bigger studios. When I had read […] Read more
It’s been nearly three years to the day since I reviewed the original Ted, a film that I certainly enjoyed but one I felt had very little comedic re-watchability, if you will. It had some hilarious moments and, for the most part, I laughed the entire time. Ted 2 is no different than the first […] Read more
2014 saw the debut of the Chilean action flick Redeemer at the Fantastic Film Festival and since then, I have been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to feast my action hungry eyes upon this film. Why? Because it stars the martial arts beast Marko Zaror whose only job in film life is to kick ass and […] Read more
July is one of my favorite months of the year. Why, you ask? Because not only do I get to celebrate the birthday of America, but I get to attend one of the most entertaining and interesting film festivals NYC has to offer, JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film! Every year Japan Cuts, held at […] Read more
James Marsden, Karl Urban and Wentworth Miller star in this fast-paced, somewhat clumsy thriller about five husbands who share a loft to conduct their affairs in. Despite sporting a rather stella cast, The Loft is a sort of Hitchcockian whodunit rip-off without the style or execution of the master of suspense and results in a plot […] Read more
No movie robbery ever goes as planned, so when the trio of robbers in 7 Minutes say that their heist will only take the titular seven minutes to successfully pull off it obviously won’t be that easy. While the core of 7 Minutes is a heist drama showing a robbery gone wrong, the film goes […] Read more
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