The beginning of the 2017 New York Film Festival has finally arrived and this year the curators have managed to surprise and delight audiences with the international premiere of a movie call... Read more
Crime and comedy are at the forefront here in this South Korean caper which brings inspired elements from Hollywood flicks such as Shawshank Redemption and Ocean’s Eleven. Byun Jae-Wook (Hwa... Read more
One of the films I was most excited to see at this year’s NYAFF was Woo Min-ho’s crime thriller, Inside Men. Starring Lee Byung-hun (GI Joe), Jo Seung-woo, Beak Yoon-sik, and Lee Kyoung-you... Read more
Time is of great importance in this Chinese crime drama, as actor Ruofu Wu gets an up close look at an experience that could have proven fatal over a decade ago. Eyes usually roll when you s... Read more
Yesterday, the NYAFF hosted the world premiere of Twisted Justice, the opening night film for the festival’s 15th anniversary. Hailing from Japan, this crime epic inspired by the biggest sc... Read more
IT’S BACK! That’s right, my favorite festival, the New York Asian Film Festival is returning this year at the end of June for its 15th anniversary. This week, the festival annou... 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
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
This isn’t my favourite teen-crime noir thriller about social media justice with regards to the question of who’s the real villain in social media punishment…but it’l... Read more
It’s been a bit of a slow start to this years NYAFF, but as we enter the business end of the festival things are picking up in the form of the unusual, unorthodox horror, Violater. The... Read more
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