Seven years after his debut feature Song Lang (2018), a romantic drama steeped in modern Vietnamese folk opera, Leon Lê reunites with key members of his cast and crew for …
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What is described today as Japan’s most recognized traditional performing art was, of course, just a form of popular culture for the masses during the 17th and 18th centuries in …
The Japanese too have the idiom of killing two birds with one stone, and Japanese filmmaker Hikari achieves this knockout feat nicely with her crowd-pleasing second feature. After a world …
By the dictates of destiny, the Toronto International Film Festival’s milestone 50th edition (4-14 September 2025) finds itself in the eyes of three trying tempests: one, an unprecedented technological disruption …
Note – some minor spoilers! Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900) is a movie within the Detective Chinatown movie franchise, and despite jokes on Reddit about having to watch 1899 movies before this one, Detective Chinatown …
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 …
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 …
Not long after its Lead Sponsor of 28 years had yelled ‘Cut!’ last year, another rival Telco (one of Canada’s largest) gamely stepped in to become the Toronto International Film …
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 …
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