Thailand
In her latest report from The New York Asian Film Festival, Lee Jutton reviews Bear Man, Kitty the Killer and I Love You, Beksman!
Darren Lynn Bousman’s Death Of Me is fascinating and terrifying but occasionally stumbles into problematic territory.
Though with a generic plot, Triple Threat is a slick, entertaining feature that works best as a showcase for the talents of its three leads.
Who’s Watching Oliver rises above those that have come before and is poised to become a cult classic for lovers throughout the genre.
By the Time it Gets Dark is a cinematic classic that will beg to be watched, decided and marvelled at, time and time again.
Abishek Bajaj, director of M.I.A. A Greater Evil, shares his stories of shooting in the Thai jungle, which included unexpected visits of snakes, elephants and more.
Predictable, overbearing, and generic, Ghost House is a film that is lacking in all the essential ingredients that make up a great horror.
When a writer/director makes a film set in a country foreign to them, it is clear to local audiences that this is an outsider’s view of their nation and their culture. There’s a reason Lost in Translation is derided in Japan and Match Point is met with sheer indifference in the UK. It becomes alienating to see your country through the eyes of somebody who hasn’t spent the majority of their life there, especially when the film is a work of social realism made by somebody with merely a second-hand knowledge of the realities of life there.
There are a million great films outside the U.S, it’s just you haven’t seen them. Good fortune smiles on you today because I’m here to show 15 foreign flicks you should have seen a long time ago.
Only God Forgives is a movie not for the faint of heart. It’s highly violent and highlights that violence as if it is a virtue. This movie wasn’t received by the critics nor by the public favorably, but I’d like to vouch for this movie.