With Japan Cuts officially underway, it’s time to visit the first film I screener for this year’s festival, Nobuhiro Doi’s dramedy, Flying Colors. Based on a true story, Flying Colors stars... Read more
South Korea loves its genre crime flicks and I love them for their devotion to it. Many of their mediocre wide release flicks top ours simply because they aren’t afraid to get their hands bl... Read more
2012 South African comedy, Material, has been making some noise over the past couple of years, and upon review it’s not hard to see why, but there’s a feeling that more could hav... Read more
Where do you start with a film like Maladies? There aren’t too many films around like it and for good reason. It’s a difficult film to watch. Sometimes you find yourself laughing... Read more
I was a big fan of Takeshi Kitano’s blood soaked yakuza film Outrage and I was happy to hear that he wanted to make a sequel, possibly even turn Outrage into a trilogy. While Japan got to s... Read more
With the recent release of Captain Phillips, I imagine Danish 2012 film The Hijacking has received a lot more attention in recent weeks, whether the piracy story in general has received a su... Read more
Directed by Todd Levin, Static follows a married couple who are coping with the death of their three year old son. They live out in the countryside because the husband, Jonathan (Milo Venti... Read more
In 2009, Marcus Dunstan directed a pretty horror thriller called The Collector that introduced us to a new type of serial killer, one that felt like a mix of Jigsaw from Saw and your run of... Read more
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