The first batch of official Academy Awards contenders are in. Earlier today, nine films were announced for contention for the Oscar’s Best Foreign Film race, many of them were obvious... Read more
And so there were nine. Today the Academy announced which films are still in the running for foreign language Oscar nominee race. The one big surprise is that Pedro Almodovar’s The S... Read more
The 10th Anniversary of the New York Asian Film Festival is rapidly approaching and as such, we have finally been graced with the glory that is the full festival lineup. After attending the... Read more
Set to open in China on April 28, 2011 is Donnie Yen’s (Ip Man) next historical epic, The Lost Bladesman (Guan yun chang), a film which I am dying to see (if only I spoke Mandarin and... Read more
If there is one thing the Asian film industry does well it’s that they know how to turn their women into badass fighting machines. And it isn’t just the two or three same stars o... Read more
A little while back I presented to you one of the most stunt intensive trailers I have ever seen in my life. It was for the film BKO: Bangkok Knockout directed by Panna Rittikrai, the stunt/... Read more
The list below, which I have created in no particular order, is a compilation of films which I feel should never be remade. They are films which I believe to be modern classics that will be... Read more
Well it looks like Asians are starting to take a hint from Hollywood when it comes to remakes. If Hollywood can remake their films why can’t the Asian studios remake the Hollywood films? Aft... Read more
As many of you know I have become quite a fan of the Japanese splatter films that Sushi Typhoon releases here in the states and the one film I am really excited for it Karate Robo Zaborgar,... Read more
NYC ‘Film Comment Selects’ Burke & Hare, Cold Fish, I Saw the Devil and 13 Others
If there is one thing I love more than anything it’s when films that deserved to be shown get shown. And that’s just what Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Magazine’s ‘Fi... Read more