WWII
The trailer for the Finnish film “Sisu” sets it up to be a “John Wick”-style action film in the middle of World War II.
What we get feels like a mixture of both fact and dramatization, which while ceaselessly fascinating, feels slightly unsatisfying.
Anchored by a strong performance from Chloë Grace Moretz, Shadow in the Cloud is a ferociously entertaining thrill ride.
With Erik Nelson’s most recent documentary, Apocalypse ’45 is both a commemoration and an elegy that refuses to choose sides.
Overall, Blood Vessel isn’t going to change horror forever, but it is entertaining, especially the first hour.
Japanese master filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final movie Labyrinth of Cinema is a love-song to movies and a reckoning with Japanese history.
The Painted Bird is a brutal film, yet, if you can stay to the end, you will find a film deeply rooted in the need to keep pushing forward.
We revisit the film Max, a controversial WWII film from 2002 starring John Cusack.
Resistance is a film that struggles to find its footing, though Eisenberg is always there to break its fall – for better or worse.
While at TIFF 2019, Wilson Kwong had the opportunity to speak with production designer for JoJo Rabbit, Ra Vincent.
A letter to love each other by looking to the past through the eyes of a child, Jojo Rabbit is as ridiculous and audacious as it is sweet and charming.
The Oscar-nominated Never Look Away shows signs of promise, but is let down by an epic scale that is never justified. Alistair Ryder reviews.
Red Joan is suffocatingly mediocre, a political thriller with no interest in the politics of the story, or anything remotely thrilling.
25 years later, director Penny Marshall’s A League Of Their Own remains that rare thing: a sports movie with female characters to look up to.
The Neglected Politicism of Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO STORY
Released just one year after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Tokyo Story obliquely reflects on the changes that came over the country.