There’s a case to be made for Seoul as the archetypal noir city of the new
millennium – the contemporary equivalent of Chandler’s Los Angeles or
Prohibition-era Chicago. A sprawling, neon-soaked boom town at th…Read More...
You’re more likely to have visions of green wheelie bins and carefully
separated plastic bottles when you hear the word ‘recycle’ these days. This
2006 film from the Pang Brothers (The Eye, Bangkok Dangerous) is…Read More...
If you had to choose a single memory to take with you into the afterlife, what
would it be? Would it be an achievement in work? Raising a family? Meeting the
perfect woman? More importantly, what does choosing that memory t…Read More...
Orient Expressed is a regular column exploring the cinema of East and South-East
Asia. In this edition, we look at a few recent highlights that prove Thailand is
still the king of Asian horror. Beneath the tourist-friendly beac…Read More...
Orient Expressed is a regular column exploring the cinema of East and South-East
Asia. In this edition, we look at the curious relationship between
straight-laced, humble Japan and their notoriously brutal cinema.…Read More...
Alexandria… Why? is being screened as part of Safar: A Journey Through Popular
Arab Cinema, an ambitious programme of popular Arab film showing at the ICA,
London from 21st September 2012. It’s a funny thing, nostalgia.…Read More...
Critically-acclaimed Indonesian action hit The Raid will receive a DVD and
Blu-Ray release next month, distributors Momentum Pictures have confirmed.
Written and directed by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Huw Evans, The Rai…Read More...
The first thing that strikes you while watching Time Bomb is how dated it feels
already, a mere four years after its release. After all, the heady paranoid days
of the Bush era and the ‘War on Terror’ have long since been…Read More...
It takes skill to make a film like Las Acacias. We’ve been raised on the
Hollywood credo of bigger-is-better, believing that the purpose of cinema is to
fill a blank screen with as much action as possible. We’re used…Read More...
With an Oscar under his belt and the adulation of the critics following the
superb A Separation, Asghar Farhadi’s return to British screens this summer is
set to be a highlight in the world cinema calendar. About Elly wi…Read More...
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