Cambodian Rock Band History and What Humans Do to Each Other By Cynda Yeasting For 2 hours and 45 minutes, I was not an audience member sitting in a theatre …
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Ellen Chang-Richardson’s debut poetry collection, Blood Belies (Wolsak and Wynn), employs visual art and language to interrogate the nature of history and memory. Through negative space, concrete poetry, and fragmented …
A bosom film crew’s decade-long reunion to revive a movie after funding ran dry on it coincides fatefully with the endemic onset of Covid-19 in Wuhan as they are about …
Bound in Heaven (Huo Xin, China 2024) After an esteemed 26-year career writing for the likes of Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons) and being …
On Netflix I tend to watch dark stories, but when an ad popped up for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy I assumed it would be more of the same. I was pleasantly …
More than three decades after his death in a car accident in 1991 at age 52, a small sampling of Lino Brocka’s corpus of 66 feature films has slowly been …
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio’s debut novel, Reuniting with Strangers, is chock full of Philippine tropes: the lovesick seaman, the fat-shaming mother who consults priests instead of doctors, the abusive husband who demands …
Bargain (Jeon Woo-sung, South Korea 2023) A man hires a high school girl for a good time at a secluded hotel, but each is in fact trying to ensnare the …
A dedicated high school teacher in Yogyakarta witnesses the implosion of her precarious family unit after they are subjected to a ruinous cyberbullying campaign following her fateful encounter with a …
Full spoilers ahead. Hidden in TIFF’s selections year after year are films that can ill afford the priceless combo of soft power, celebrity and public relations necessary to capture an …
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