MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Still Walking
Tsai Ming-liang still has Lee Kang-sheng walking, this time in Washington DC for Abiding Nowhere.
At Least it’s Fast as Lightning
Po the kung fu fighting giant panda returns for more of the same in Kung Fu Panda 4.
‘Well’ Wishes
Hong Kong director Ray Yeung probes the legality and morality of same-sex partner inheritance rigths in All Shall Be Well.
Sorry, Hayao
It’s not as dark ast Kitaro, but Totto-Chan tells The Boy and the Heron’s story better.
Ordinary ‘LIfe’
Anthony Hopkins makes the British Oskar Schindler into a compellign wartime hero in the otherwise honourable, but pedestrian, One Life.
Village Crier
Tsang Tsui-shan heads back to the village in the third in her unofficial Ho Chung trilogy, Winter Chants.
Lost ‘Love’
Might as well cue up a Spotify playlist. You’ll learn as much as you will from Bob Marley: One Love.
Lyric Jumble
The Lyricist Wannabe will tell you why we should have a little more respect for Cantopop.
Payne Relief
Da’Vine Joy Randolph steals the show in Alexander Payne’s latest angsty white guy drama, The Holdovers.
Ghost Re-writer
Koda Gou goes there in his Kitaro origin story, The Birth of Kitaro: Mystery of GeGeGe. Brace.
Not Over Yet
Denis Villeneuve continues his deep dive into Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic with Dune: Part Two.
This Again
Yup. Another anonymously moralising thriller set in the foul depths of unnamed Southeast Asia. Why?
A Gentle Apocalypse
What kind of apocalyptic thriller has no gunfire? Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From kind.
Hard Times
Huang Ji’s contemporary China trilogy wraps with Golden Horse winner Stonewalling.