by Al Young, February 9, 2010 12:15 PM
Hong Kong based Imagi Animation Studios has thrown in the towel in lieu of massive layoffs of over 300 employees. Back in 2007, the studio released its first CG animated feature TMNT and it became a moderate success at the...
by Onderhond, February 8, 2010 5:05 AM
Oxide and Danny Pang are known to go berserk when they can get their itching hands on CG, with varying results. It's not that they lack creative vision, but their budget doesn't always allow for great excesses. The Storm Warriors...
by James Dennis, February 8, 2010 4:24 AM
Although I've never really warmed to Jackie Chan's unique blend of mayhem and mirth, I've seen enough of his action pics to be more than a little intrigued by the prospect of him attempting some 'proper' acting. It reminded me...
by Todd Brown, February 8, 2010 1:22 AM
You want hard boiled cops, vicious thieves, lots of gun play and dangerous stunts o'plenty? You want Dante Lam's Fire of Conscience.The investigation of a prostitute homicide brings headstrong, heavy-handed Detective Manfred in an unlikely collaboration with sly, man-of-the-world...
by Todd Brown, February 8, 2010 1:16 AM
Mark my words: If Pang Ho-Cheung's 'strangers falling in love in a smoking pit' rom-com Love In A Puff ends with the leads quitting smoking because they've found each other it's going to spark a bidding war for remake...
by Todd Brown, February 8, 2010 12:54 AM
Any time Japan's famed animation house Studio Ghibli releases a new film it is a big event and this is no exception. Adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Karigurashi No Arrietty is the directorial debut of Hiromasa Yonebayashi -...
by Todd Brown, February 7, 2010 11:21 PM
By Charles WebbI was surprised to learn that Kim Ki-Duk was not only the producer for Beautiful, but the film's writer as well. I was surprised because the writer-director's normally masterful control and focus - present in wrenching dramas...
by Ard Vijn, February 6, 2010 5:13 AM
When director Inoue Tsuki visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam last year, she brought her short film "The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth" with her. It was a wild short full of energy, and heavily relying on music and...
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by Michael Guillen, February 5, 2010 7:43 PM
It seems like you can't go to a film festival anywhere these days without national cinemas ending up in some kind of political stand-off. Whether or not one believes that a film festival is the proper venue to broker...
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by Todd Brown, February 5, 2010 1:04 PM
[Our thanks to Serdar Kökçeoğlu for the following.]Modern Turkish cinema continues to present new genres of movies, in contrast with the more traditional facade it had in the past. And carrying on with that trend, two new movies have...
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