Review: Warriors of Future
As big of a fanatic of 70s-90s Hong Kong cinema as I am, I have a tremendous blind spot when it comes to ...
Tag: international
Movies
LFF Review: Drive My Car
An understated slow-burn thriller, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a three-hour feat I can’t recommend enough. The winner of this year’s Best ...
Movies
The lineup for 2021’s Cannes Film Festival has been revealed
Last year was a… tricky year for movies, with the iconic Cannes Film Festival hitting snares like everything else in the world. With ...
Movies
Wonder Woman 1984 passes $118 million globally
It’s bizarre to read a story where a $200 million film making $5.5 million in one weekend is a success, but that’s just ...
Features
C What’s On: The Criterion Channel’s September 2020 Lineup
Summer is winding down and the weather is beginning to cool with it–thank goodness. We had the excuse of staying indoors in our air-conditioned ...
Wong Kar-wai’s Blossoms Shanghai project revealed
Hong Kong master filmmaker Wong Kar-wai has been relatively quiet since 2013’s The Grandmaster, but his long-gestating next directorial project, Blossoms Shanghai, has been ...
Movies
China’s second re-opened box-office weekend shows continued growth
After last week’s triumphant re-opening of movie theaters in China, it seems like the momentum isn’t dying down anytime soon. For its second ...
Features
25 years later, Shanghai Triad is still a unique take on the gangster genre
By the mid-90s, the “Gangster Film” had become a pretty overstuffed genre in the film industry. Around for practically as long as films ...
The Cannes Film Festival will happen in person or not at all
With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the world, the film industry is in a state of flux across every possible facet, the festival scene ...
C What’s On: The Criterion Channel’s Programming for May 2020
Hello and welcome to the monthly round-up of all that is good and cinematic coming to the Criterion Channel this month. With the ...
Cannes Market will be going digital for the first time in its history
In an update that will be surprising to some, the 2020 Cannes Film Market will be going digital this year. Likely a precursor ...
News
The Cannes film festival is basically dead this year
Just last week, officials for the Cannes International Film Festival made an announcement that its event would either happen in person or not ...