"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" When he was a boy, Richard Bolisay's... More >>

"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" According to Dodo Dayao's MySpace page, he... More >>

"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" Lessons From the School of Inattention has... More >>

The 16th London Australian Film Festival kicks off on 18th March at Barbican, showcasing the pick of Antipodean cinema from the past year. Of note is the Dark Side of Down Under strand, featuring cannibal drama Van Diemen's Land,...

"What a title!" Michael Hawley quipped regarding the 1974 film Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting), one of the four films featured in the Lino Brocka mini-retrospective that comprises part of the focus on... More >>

A quick reminder here that Canadian Music Week's Music For The Screen series runs this coming weekend - Friday and Saturday - here in Toronto. As the programmer of the series I'm biased as hell but I think the...

[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering this entry to the Twitch readership.] The 28th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) kicks off tomorrow night, March 11 and continues throughout the Bay Area until March 21. I've... More >>

Before finding words to describe my pleasure in viewing my first Lino Brocka film You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting (1974), I'd like to render a few comments on the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)... More >>

What could be better than a weekend of horror built around a Tetsuo retrospective and a primer in French horror of the last decade? How about holding that weekend in a spa town once favored by Russian Czars? The annual...

No, it's not a reference to the film by Christoffer Boe, though that would probably find an appreciative home here.  On now and continuing through the next couple weeks is the Offscreen Festival in Brussels and, honestly, it'd be...