MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Law & Disorder
Zhang Mo carries on the fast emerging trend of Macau as a dangerous, fictional SEA quasi-Chinese city in the bananas Last Suspect.
Louder than Words
Ann Hui’s appropriately titled Elegies makes us wonder who she’s eulogising.
A Lot of Songbirds
Will you look at that. The Hunger Games prequel is 2/3s better than the OG series.
Not All Wounds
Nick Cheuk makes his debut with the rightly provocative Time Still Turns The Pages.
Strike Three
Tstuomu Hanabusa wraps up the Tokyo Revengers live action adaptation in flat style.
Animal Crackers
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon is out of its damn mind. But in a good way.
Plea for the Fifth
Lawrence Kan delivers Hong Kong’s own Spotlight with In Broad Daylight and delivers props to journos while he’s at it.
Done and Dusted
Jonathan Li reteams with producer Soi Cheang and star Gordon Lam for nihilism-lite, in Dust to Dust.
Choppy Waters
Go read chapter 7 of Dracula, come back and watch The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
‘Web’ Master
That other Korean director, Kim Jee-woon, goes back to his comedy roots to send up the movies in Cobweb.
Overstuffed & Underbaked
Please drop a message if you can tell us what happened in Under the Light.
‘Flower’ Power
Exhibit A in why Martin Scorsese gets to dis Marvel: Killers of the Flower Moon.