The opening minutes of Wang Jing's Feng Shui outline a difficult protagonist. Her name is Li Baoli, and, as played by the Beijing-born actress Yan Bingyan, she'...
The present state of South Korea’s national cinema indicates a country under the constant threat of warfare and destruction. Widely recognized films like Park C...
Having already been banned from filmmaking in China twice, it's no surprise director Lou Ye has refused to quell his appetites for highly sexualized, naturalist...
When we last saw super villain Gru (Steve Carell) in Despicable Me he had just returned the moon to its rightful place in the sky, retired from evil and become ...
Is it any surprise that Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger doesn’t really work? The titular lawman and his precocious white steed Silver, along with Native Americ...
Christian Linaban’s Aberya feels like an attempt to define ‘modern’ Filipino cinema; casting off so many of the industry’s old tricks in favor of a shifting, ai...
Here it is, ladies and gents, that serious Jason Statham film few were expecting. Once called a more narratively-appropriate Hummingbird, now called a more Jaso...
Breeding our youth to dream of happily ever afters with an allure of fairy tale romance may do them a disservice by completely ignoring love’s equally prevalent...
More snarky than academic, Jamie Kastner’s Secret Disco Revolution begins with the thesis that disco was an underground movement orchestrated by the shadowy pow...
While much attention is focused on the fact that Paul Feig’s The Heat is an action-comedy with two women in the lead -- much was similarly made of his Bridesmai...
