MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
No Laughing Matter
Note: Au Cheuk-man’s very dramatic Stand Up Story has hardly any stand up comedy in it.
Self-Centred
Daishi Matsunaga takes on seminal Japanese LGBTQ+ novel Egoist and does not embarrass himself.
Talking a Big Game
Danny and Michael Philippou come really, really close to horror greatness in Talk to Me. But, please. No more dead family.
Bad Habits
Can someone please give The Nun her own movie instead of pacifying us with The Nun II?
Who’s This Now?
If you don’t already know Kenji Miyazawa, you won’t know him after Father of the Milky Way Railroad.
Butleeerrr!
G.But is back already, and until he gives us our Den of Thieves sequel, we’ve got Kandahar.
More than Equal
Third time’s a charm for the Fuqua-Washington whup-ass team in the satisfying The Equalizer 3.
Save Yourselves
People, we have a contender for 2023’s biggest turkey. I give you: Onpaku.
Riding High
Adele Lim’s Joy Ride is straight up funny AF, whether you’re Asian, American, female, male or other.
Mucky Suds
Taiwanese director Giddens Ko rounds up his usual suspects for the kooky gangster rom-com Miss Shampoo.
Ode to Odes
Fire up the metronome. The Chinese animated blockbuster Chang An makes poets kick ass.
‘Past’ Present
Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with the semi-autobiographical Past Lives. You might want tissues.