First hitting Hong Kong theaters with 1986’s action comedy Naughty Boys (扭計雜牌軍), filmmaker Wellson Chin Sing-Wai’s follow up is that of the female-led The Inspector Wears Skirts (霸王花), released as Top Squad in the U.S., has Sibelle Hu (The Seventh… Read More ›
There have always been stories about grifters, liars, and thieves for about as long as there have been heroes and heroines. Sometimes they’re lovable arbiters of chaos, sometimes always in it for themselves. Each time, though, they are often thought… Read More ›
For a certain type of film fan, there’s been a question swirling around in their minds for decades now and it’s centered on writer/director James Cameron. No, it’s not about when the next Avatar entry in the expected five-film series… Read More ›
Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time, by its order. But now I am not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. – Arrival (2016) In 2019,… Read More ›
Are we the family we’ve come from or the family we create? This is the major question at the center of the Graham and Parker Phillips-helmed Rumble Through The Dark, a drama adapted from the Michael Farris Smith March 2018… Read More ›
Newcomer Anaita Wali Zada’s Donya is desperate for a dream, and, like those who know her, by the second act of Babak Jalali’s (Radio Dreams, Frontier Blues) Fremont, you’ll be desperate for her to find one, too. It’s been a… Read More ›
Movies about finance can be difficult to translate to the big screen. The complicated terminology and history can feel overwhelming to those unfamiliar with that world. The GameStop stock short-squeeze is a prime example of this very thing. It’s a… Read More ›
In today’s theatrical market, making a movie off an established intellectual property (IP) is standard practice. Successful book? Make it a movie. Successful television series? Make it a movie. Successful video game? Keep attempting to make it a movie. Successful… Read More ›
There are movies which, whether you’ve seen them or not, no matter where your cinematic knowledge or pleasures come from, you have knowledge of and the understanding that the film is generally received well. Some of these movies are regarded… Read More ›
“Life is like a parody of your favorite song. Just when you think you know all the words: surprise, you don’t know anything.” – Grizzled Narrator, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story It’s so incredibly easy to take a musician like… Read More ›
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” When it comes to premiere tales of horror in the modern era, novelist Stephen King is among the first names mentioned. His novels and short stories alike… Read More ›
Featuring not one but two of the great film prologues of the 1970s New Hollywood era, the high-minded horror classic Messiah of Evil (1973) is the latest release from independent Blu-ray distributor Radiance Films. Earlier this year a limited edition… Read More ›
It was such a strange sensation excitedly signing up for covering Titanic’s 4K Blu-ray release. I figured that delving into such a task would be easy for me as I (sometimes ashamedly) broadcast to the world that amongst everything else… Read More ›
“We regulate any stealing of his property. We’re daaaamn good, too. Mr. Tunstall’s got a soft-spot for runaways, derelicts, vagrant types. But you can’t be any geek off the street. You gotta be handy with the steel, if you know… Read More ›
In a series of purposely timed events, Sony Pictures has decided to re-release the 4K edition of the Resident Evil collection (the Milla Jovovich live action movies) in a package of sleek looking steelbooks housed in a steel house nearly… Read More ›
You never count your money When you’re sittin’ at the table There’ll be time enough for countin’ When the dealin’s done – “The Gambler,” made famous by singer Kenny Rogers. When it comes to gambling, there aren’t many songs as… Read More ›
You’ll believe a computer nerd can be handsome and ripped. Or maybe you won’t. It’s Michael Mann’s (Thief, Heat) Blackhat (2015), and it’s finally releasing in 4K UHD from Arrow this Tuesday, November 28th. But more importantly, the 2K Director’s… Read More ›
There can be an argument made that since the beginning of film there was always going to be the inherent other side of prestige and relative opposite of the term “good” because there is always an audience for something dumb… Read More ›
There’s a long history of the blind swordsman in storytelling, though the style of action-oriented martial arts films are often referred to as within the subgenre called “zatoichi,” itself a reference to the title character of a Kan Shimozawa story… Read More ›
A typhoon’s coming… Typhoon Club (1985) that is! Arriving November 27th from Third Window Films, Shinji Sōmai’s youth cinema masterpiece debuts on Blu-ray. Note: This review is based on a pre-production check disc and will not cover any packaging or… Read More ›