NYAFF/JAPAN CUTS 2011: HEAVEN'S STORY Review
When one hears the word 'epic' one usually thinks of 'battles' and 'dragons', 'conspiracy and intrigue', 'larger-than-life filmmaking.' When one hears the words 'revenge story' images of Charles Bronson mowing down street punks or Choi Min-sik dishing out justice with... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: HAUNTERS Review (A Very Different Take)
The screenwriter behind Kim Ji-woon's The Good, The Bad and The Weird makes his directorial debut with Korean box office hit, Haunters. Haunters is a quasi-superhero flick depicting the adversarial relationship between a powerful "psychic" and the only man impervious... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE MAN FROM NOWHERE Review
[Our thanks to Mark Popham for the following review.]Man, I have been really pulling the long NYAFF straws when it comes to gorgeously shot Korean action films. Last year I had Secret Reunion, a North/South spy versus spycatcher buddy... More »
  

NYAFF/JAPAN CUTS 2011: OSAMU TEZUKA'S BUDDHA: THE GREAT DEPARTURE Review
The first part in a projected trilogy based on Osamu Tezuka's 8 volume manga, Toei Animation's Buddha: The Great Departure chronicles the early life of Prince Siddhartha in bombastic fashion, constructing an epic on a scale intended to rival old-school... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BTS: BETTER THAN SEX Review
[Once again, a round of applause to Mark Popham.] Ever since getting a screener of BTS: Better Than Sex in the mail, I kept bragging to people about the Taiwanese teen sex comedy I had to watch. I had to... More »
  

NYAFF/Japan Cuts 2011: RINGING IN THEIR EARS Review
The film starts out with Noko, a lead singer of Japanese metafunk band Shinsei Kamattechan, on stage, singing while holding a laptop in front of him. With fans' comments flying across the live streaming images of the concert in the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: OCEAN HEAVEN Review

I won't lie: everything about the drama Ocean Heaven reeks of the kind of treacly drama and straining for "seriousness" that every action star seems to go through at least once in their career. In this case, it's Jet Li,... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BEDEVILLED Review
This review contains spoilers.You know the saying, "A nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there?" Well, Moo-do Island isn't even a nice place to visit. With a population of roughly nine- including a pair of abusive... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: FOXY FESTIVAL Review

Hae-Young Lee's Foxy Festival is a romantic comedy about letting your freak flag fly set to a boom chikka chikka disco porn rhythm. For the most part, it's very funny, and occasionally sweet. But the overall experience suffers because one... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE RECIPE Review
The Recipe's Korean title, 'doenjang' refers to 'fermented soybean paste' which is the base of almost all Korean cooking- it is in soups, stews, marinades, condiments, side dishes... the list is endless. With such an ever-present, everyday ingredient as the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE UNJUST Review
As a writer for a site that prides itself on top notch coverage of international cinema - especially from Asia - it pains me to say I'm not that hip to the current wave of Korean films. If I had... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: SELL OUT! Review (Charles' Take)
Sell Out! is one of those movies that could have been so much better had it overcome so many "if's." If its ideas had been less scattershot and more focused, it might have been an incisive satire about the (sometimes)... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD Review
I wonder if the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre saw God before they proceeded to shoot up their classmates- and if so- was God a middle-aged Japanese man in a bad suit? I mean, God does works in mysterious ways,... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BUDDHA MOUNTAIN Review
[Once again, our thanks to Mark Popham for the following review.]Watching Old Fish for NYAFF, back in 2009, I was struck with how the film had basically the same plot as a standard Hollywood action movie- not a Bourne Identity,... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR Review
[Our thanks to Mark Popham for the following review.] Sometime in the mid-nineties, when the VHS tape was king, "so bad it's good" became an aesthetic in it's own right. People began actively seeking out bad movies- cheeseball Japanese action... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: A BOY AND HIS SAMURAI Review
There's a neat little batch of food-themed films playing at this year's NYAFF, and in the sub category of desserts/pastries may I present to you Fish Story and Golden Slumber director, Yoshihiro Nakamura's latest: the manga-adapted A Boy And His... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: BKO: BANGKOK KNOCKOUT Review
[Our thanks to Moko for the following review.]Look, we all have our dirty little pleasures- types of media that we consume, shamefacedly and in violation of our usual standards of taste, in order to evoke some sort of animal emotion... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED Review
Aussie documentarian Mark Hartley returns with another exploitation expose for the discriminating connoisseur of crap. Only this time around he emigrates from his native Australia to focus on the down and dirty films of the Philippine Islands. Those familiar with... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: SELL OUT! Review (Dustin's Take)
The film begins with sultry Rafflesia (Jessica Lai) interviewing a Malaysian film auteur for her low end TV talk show called "For Art's Sake". The auteur is Yeo Joon Han (the director making a cameo) who just won the prestigious... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY Review
Milocrorze: A Love Story is like a My Little Pony shitting Gummi Bears into a river of Coca-Cola under a bright pink sky full of rainbows. It's super sweet, kind of gross, plenty weird, and damn awesome.The film's director Yoshimasa... More »
  
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