Review: The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Looking back at some of the posts I’ve written on this site, it’s probably fair to say that I’m a bit of a fan of Hirokazu Kore-eda. When I heard that he would be working with Netflix as show-runner to a TV miniseries based on a manga and with a major focus on food and […]
City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002), Globalisation and a Little Nostalgia
This is going to be a post of many firsts (beyond the obvious ones, like first post about a film from Brazil, first post about a Portuguese film, first post about City of God, and on and on and on…). More importantly, City of God is one of the first foreign films that I remember […]
Blu-Ray Review: Boat People (Ann Hui, 1982, Criterion Collection)
The Criterion Collection is a distribution company which has been operating for many years, remastering and bringing back to life many old, forgotten or just plain lesser-seen films from around the world. Initially a US-only company, it recently started releasing Blu-Rays in the UK as well. Sadly there are some Criterion films which don’t make […]
Blu-Ray Review: Midnight (Kwon Oh-seung, 2021, Eureka Entertainment)
Being a follower of Eureka Entertainment’s Twitter account, Midnight is a film I’ve been hearing quite a lot about for the past year or so, from its initial limited release (which I sadly couldn’t get to any screenings of) all the way up to its Blu Ray release this week. It’s safe to say I […]
Blu-Ray Review: Armour of God (Deluxe Collector’s Edition, 88 Films)
I have really enjoyed some of Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong action stuff in the past, and also really liked 88 Films recent release of The Young Master, so when I heard about this Armour of God release I was excited. It’s a Jackie Chan film I haven’t seen before, and it sounded like it’d be […]
Review: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
“Did you know this theatre is haunted?” The first line spoken by a character in the film, nearly 45 minutes into its running time, perfectly encapsulates the feeling of Goodbye, Dragon Inn. It’s the final night of business for an old-fashioned Taipei cinema, and 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn plays in a cavernous theatre to a […]
Empire’s Top 50 Animated Films List: Let’s Break It Down And Make It Better
The UK film magazine Empire recently released a list of their Top 50 Animated Films Of All Time, and I have to say…I’m not really a fan of it. It’s not that it was a list filled with bad films or anything like that, most of the films they chose are pretty good, but for […]
Five of the Best: Food Moments in Film
This film was first made as a video list, available here: Food is a huge part of every-day life. We (usually) interact with it every day, it gives us energy, pleasure, a link to our shared cultures and histories, and an excuse to interact with each other. We literally need it to survive! Considering how […]
Review: Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (Kim Do-young, 2019)
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is a film about a woman in her 30s named Ji-young (Jung Yu-mi) who has recently given birth to her first child and acts as a stay-at-home mother while her husband Jung Dae-hyun (Gong Yoo) continues working. Since the birth of their child, Ji-young has started acting strangely. From time to […]
Blu-Ray Review: Family Values: Three Films by Hirokazu Kore-eda (Arrow Boxset)
Looking through the some of the reviews I’ve done for this site already, it’s pretty clear that I am a fan of much of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s work. So, it seems only natural for me to want to buy Arrow’s three-film Kore-eda boxset Family Values, one of two Kore-eda boxsets commercially available in the […]