North American Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Hong Kong / 2017 / 71:00 / Cantonese with English subtitles The joy in watching The Posterist comes from the fact …
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Japan, 2017 / 95:00 / English, Japanese with English subtitles / Canadian Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Megumi Sasaki’s A Whale Of A Tale documentary was created …
Hirayanagi Atsuko’s refreshing debut feature Oh Lucy! is one whimsical cocktail, mixing one part urban alienation, one part domestic drama, two parts road movie, and topped with splashes of comic …
Styled as a comic domestic drama but hiding sweeping undercurrents, Mina Shum’s crowd-pleasing fourth feature portrays a Vancouver family whose lives are jolted by a convergence of difficult revelations and …
The laughter dropped often from the packed press and industry screening on opening night, but as the film wore on it was hard to shake off the feeling that their …
PANICLE By Gillian Sze ECW Press (September 2017) 90 pages, $18.95 (Paperback) REVIEWED BY KATHY NGUYEN A panicle is a loose cluster of flowers, often used in reference to oats. …
ORACLE BONE By Lydia Kwa Arsenal Pulp Press (October 1 2017) 304 pages, $18.95 (Paperback) REVIEWED BY WILLIAM THAM Firstly, a confession: I don’t know much about martial arts, …
“Someone once compared my skin colour to a nicotine stain. They weren’t interested in a date. They told me to go back to China,” so opens Project Gelb, a documentary …
The experimental “In Sundry Languages” proudly proclaims itself as a multilingual drama that requires no translation. The director, Art Babayants, trusts his audience to be able to appreciate …
a place called No Homeland By Kai Cheng Thom Arsenal Pulp Press (2017) 83 pages, $14.95 (Paperback) REVIEWED BY DAVID LY Kai Cheng Thom’s a place called No Homeland is a …