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New York Asian Film Festival 2024: PATTAYA HEAT, TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN &BRUSH OF THE GOD
New York Asian Film Festival 2024: PATTAYA HEAT, TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN & BRUSH OF THE GOD

From this year’s New York Asian Film Festival we take a look at Pattaya Heat, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In & Brush of the God!

New York Asian Film Festival 2023: BEAR MAN, KITTY THE KILLER & I LOVE YOU, BEKSMAN
New York Asian Film Festival 2023: BEAR MAN, KITTY THE KILLER & I LOVE YOU, BEKSMAN

In her latest report from The New York Asian Film Festival, Lee Jutton reviews Bear Man, Kitty the Killer and I Love You, Beksman!

DEATH OF ME: Mystical & Terrifying
DEATH OF ME: Mystical & Terrifying

Darren Lynn Bousman’s Death Of Me is fascinating and terrifying but occasionally stumbles into problematic territory.

TRIPLE THREAT: An Enjoyable, If Slight, Flurry Of Martial Arts Mayhem
TRIPLE THREAT: An Enjoyable, If Slight, Flurry Of Martial Arts Mayhem

Though with a generic plot, Triple Threat is a slick, entertaining feature that works best as a showcase for the talents of its three leads.

WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER: A Demented FilmThat Is Destined to Be A Cult Classic
WHO’S WATCHING OLIVER: A Demented Film Destined To Be A Cult Classic

Who’s Watching Oliver rises above those that have come before and is poised to become a cult classic for lovers throughout the genre.

BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK: Fulfilling The Possibilities Of Film
BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK: Fulfilling The Possibilities Of Film

By the Time it Gets Dark is a cinematic classic that will beg to be watched, decided and marvelled at, time and time again.

The Challenges of shooting M.I.A. A GREATER EVIL, in Thailand
The Challenges Of Shooting M.I.A. A GREATER EVIL In Thailand

Abishek Bajaj, director of M.I.A. A Greater Evil, shares his stories of shooting in the Thai jungle, which included unexpected visits of snakes, elephants and more.

GHOST HOUSE: An Exhaustingly Loud Horror Dud
GHOST HOUSE: An Exhaustingly Loud Horror Dud

Predictable, overbearing, and generic, Ghost House is a film that is lacking in all the essential ingredients that make up a great horror.

How To Win At Checkers (Every Time)
HOW TO WIN AT CHECKERS (EVERY TIME) Never Explores The Sad Reality Beneath The Surface

When a writer/director makes a film set in a country foreign to them, it is clear to local audiences that this is an outsider’s view of their nation and their culture. There’s a reason Lost in Translation is derided in Japan and Match Point is met with sheer indifference in the UK. It becomes alienating to see your country through the eyes of somebody who hasn’t spent the majority of their life there, especially when the film is a work of social realism made by somebody with merely a second-hand knowledge of the realities of life there.

The Beginner’s Guide to Foreign Film: 15 Must-Sees

There are a million great films outside the U.S, it’s just you haven’t seen them. Good fortune smiles on you today because I’m here to show 15 foreign flicks you should have seen a long time ago.

ONLY GOD FORGIVES: Different Does Not Equal Bad

Only God Forgives is a movie not for the faint of heart. It’s highly violent and highlights that violence as if it is a virtue. This movie wasn’t received by the critics nor by the public favorably, but I’d like to vouch for this movie.