Juxtaposing Pulp Thriller and Character Introspection Following up his debut novel, Kings of Petaling Street, former Senior Editor of Ricepaper William Tham’s forthcoming sophomore piece The Last Days moves away …
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The 2019 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival in partnership with Jam3 offered filmgoers an experimental pop-up experience this year, titled East of the Rockies, an interactive narrative augmented reality …
Conversation with Zalika Reid-Benta and Vincent Ternida On a rare sunny day in the Fall, I was able to connect with Zalika Reid-Benta, author of Frying Plantain — a short …
May shrugs her left shoulder to keep her bag from slipping, glances up across the classical vinyl section in search of wayward Mimi, and then back down to the slim …
Join us for the launch of the anthology “Immersions” and immerse yourself in unexpected worlds. Your janitors are secretly part of an underground society. Craigslist shamans are available for shape …
Son of James’ front man Shon Wong classifies their unique sound as “Chyna-Trucker-Funk”. “It blends the haunting sounds of Chinese instrumentation with the soulful sounds of Southern Rock and funk,” …
I’ve always wondered if the Comedy Of The Absurd is a criticism of the human condition: Life is a series of accidents that veer towards a pointless milieu of pain, …
Taiwan’s contemporary cinema thrives with the personal story. Korean films glorify spectacle while Japan prefers its offbeat genre-benders. Contrary to this metric, Taiwan keeps to its path of elegant simplicity …
Every year, I gravitate towards the anime offering for VIFF from classics such as Wolf Children and duds like Red Turtle, every year I roll a proverbial dice. Children of …
We fall because we’re alive, an adage that resonated throughout the film as a drunken warning by herald Sakamoto to protagonist Dazai as he set off in his plagiarism. Sakamoto …