Bad City – Finding life in motion
A cup of saké, the sound of a train going by; it takes time for the world to adjust, the music has quieted down and in loss we glimpse life. […]
Alienoid – Enter the Korean Sci-Fi Blockbuster
Years after two of the most entertaining films to ever come out of South Korea – The Thieves and Assassination – director Choi Dong-hoon finally returns with Alienoid, the first […]
Hansan: Rising Dragon – The Solemnity of Heroism
Joseon Kingdom, 1592. Busan port has fallen to foreign forces. The army was unprepared, the king has fled north. The Imjin war has started. In an attempt to block the […]
Preman: Silent Fury — More than spectacle
The Indonesian film industry has long been a fertile ground for action cinema. Most cinephiles know of The Raid films and The Night Comes For Us, of course, but the […]
Baby Assassins — There will be action!
The action means business in this precious youth comedy/drama!
THE FABLE 2 – More of the same, for better and for worse
The sequel to the 2019 action hit has problems, but it still delivers the goods.
Gravity – Between Heaven and Earth
Ryan Stone’s journey is an alchemical process, the transformation of an inferior and abased material into a more noble and superior substance.
Ip Man 4 – Farewell, Sifu
He promised he was done and yet, here he comes again. Donnie Yen becomes the legendary Wing Chun master Ip Man one last time for the grand finale of the […]
Hydra – Fleeting moments, sharp objects and the contemporary martial arts film
There is something rare here for action cinema. Mystical, low-key and disparate. There’s a reverence for place and a soft humanity present.
Hex — Transgressive ghost stories and hybridity
In 1980, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio was having a hard time keeping up with the competition. They had ruled the world of commercial Chinese-language films for decades but had […]
Messiah of Evil : Night of Reckoning at the American Frontier
Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz are known in Hollywood for their work with George Lucas: after writing American Graffiti, they script-doctored Star Wars, wrote Indiana Jones and the Temple of […]
In Fabric – An uncompromising sensory assault
On the often well-beaten path of genre cinema stands an English filmmaker whose work defies all expectations. When his second feature film, Berberian Sound Studio, came out, Peter Strickland landed […]
Avengement — A barrage of unruly whims that happens upon a strong, bloody finish
Scott Adkins and director Jesse V. Johnson are back again. These two gents have seemingly found each other in their love for brutish knucklehead machismo mysticism and Guy Ritchie’s 90s […]
Cannes 2019 — A Hidden Life: Christlike Inertia
It was one of the most anticipated events of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Announced as a return to « classical » storytelling after a rather experimental trilogy, Terrence Malick’s new film […]
John Wick 3 — Impasse and escalation
The sun is setting on a calm New York City evening when suddenly, the camera pans to the right to reveal a world burdened by thunder and heavy rain. It’s […]
Ghost of Guts Eater — Flying heads, intestines, and social order
The image is undeniably disturbing: an adult woman’s head with long black hair and blood-thirsty eyes haunts the night, effortlessly flying through the darkness. What of her body? Left lying […]
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