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VCinema - Asian Film Commentary

I Will Make You Mine (USA, 2020) - I Will Make You Mine completes what could be described as an accidental indie trilogy were it not for how this poignant and quietly purposeful finale came ...
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Asian Cinema - While on the Road

To Kill a Mastermind (1979) - 7.0 - Shaw Brothers - This Shaw Brothers film has more characters than at a State Fair and you feel like you are on a fast merry-go-round as you try to remember them and keep ...
1 day ago
Asian Film Strike

A PUNCH TO REVENGE (1989) short review - In Lee Chiu’s A Punch to Revenge (also known under the equally nonsensical but slightly less awkward title Dragon Angel), Eddy Ko plays Tsang, a crippled a...
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Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill!

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Coffee coffee and more coffee

Return from the Ashes - J. Lee Thompson - 1965 KL Studio Classics BD Region A Hubert Monteilhet's source novel has been adapted three times by three very different filmmakers. The...
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Rupert Pupkin Speaks

New Release Roundup for the week of March 24th, 2020 - *APRIL FOOL'S DAY on Blu-ray (Scream Factory)* *https://amzn.to/3dmk5LO* *[image: Amazon Button (via NiftyButtons.com)]* *LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN on Blu-ray (...
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AsianCineFest

Section23 Films has announced its April 2020 slate of releases - Home video distributor Section23 Films has announced its April slate of releases, featuring the latest installment in BUSHIROAD’s popular multimedia fran...
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voiddeckboysingapore

Goal 2034 ? manage the league properly first - Goal 2010, goal 2034, goal 2100, all these are words, nothing more. The solutions are easy to solve the problem, just do it. A scheme, I wrote about this a...
2 weeks ago
The Asian Cinema Blog

SeaShorts Film Festival is accepting entries - If you’re a director from the ASEAN region, don’t miss your chance to participate in SeaShorts Film Festival. Short films under 20 min in all genres are ac...
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Tars Tarkas.NET

Snow Monster (Review) - Snow Monster aka 大雪怪 aka Da Xue Guai 2019 Written by Sheng Fan Zhang and Pian Jia Leng Directed by Huang He NetFlix isn’t the only streaming platform pumpi...
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The Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project

The Nay Pyi Daw Revisited - Mandalay, Myanmar - From Mogok in the mountains I journeyed back down to the lowlands and the dusty streets of Mandalay. A solid six hour drive by car, repressing vomit all th...
3 months ago
Coventry East Asian Film Society

Movie Review The Help - This movie an incredible one which not only pays justice to the bestseller on which it is actually based but it...
5 months ago
Hell On Frisco Bay

SFFILM Day 14: Asako I & II - *The 62st San Francisco International Film Festival holds its final screenings today. Each day during the festival I've posted about a festival selection I...
11 months ago
Beth Loves Bollywood

my 1000th Indian film: Inaam Dus Hazaar -
11 months ago
House of Self-Indulgence

The Amateurs (Usama Alshaibi, 2003) - I don't remember François Truffaut or Karen Finley being mentioned in any of Ed Powers' depressing Dirty Debutantes movies. But then again, I haven't s...
1 year ago
Nekoneko's Movie Litterbox

Neko’s Jukebox – October 2017 - Nope… not abducted by aliens… not being held against my will in a dirty shipping container somewhere in Gdansk… not languishing in a medically induced coma...
2 years ago
Filmsick

The Wailing (2015, Na Hong – Jin, STKR) - 01 คุณเป็นตำรวจต๊อกต๋อยในเมืองชนบทเล็กๆที่มีตำรวจสักสิบคนได้ เวลามีฆ๋ากันตายคุณยังมีเวลากินข้าวกับเมียกับลูกกับแม่ยายก่อนออกจากบ้าน ชีวิตมันเรื่อยเปื่อย แล...
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BLACK HOLE REVIEWS

Zombie! Catastrophe! Freaks! - 1970s' movie books from Lorrimer - *GENRE MOVIE BOOKS FROM LORRIMER PUBLISHING* *How to get a teenager's attention* *One of the easiest ways to recommend movies is to use photographs and ...
3 years ago
Asia Shock

Attack on Titan II: The End of the World - *BEWARE: HERE THERE BE SPOILERS* As the old saying goes, “If you thought you saw some crazy-ass titans busting shit up and eating people and then a bunch ...
4 years ago
Ninja Dixon

Schmollywood Babylon: What to find at Amazon in Germany 2! -
4 years ago
The Mee Noi Thai Movie Review

Cannibal Mercenary (รับจ้างตาย,1988) - One of the most legendary Thai cult films people know about is Cannibal Mercenary. There’s a lot of incorrect information out there, but the director is C...
5 years ago
Lessons From the School of Inattention

Jersey Boys (2014) - *Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys: From Broadway Blockbuster to Boilerplate Biopic* The road from stage to screen is almost always paved with good, although...
5 years ago
(A Nutshell) Review

re:solve / 决议案 Trailer - There's a release date! And a new trailer to accompany the one month wait to its debut. Touted as Singapore's first police crime thriller, anticipation and...
6 years ago
SoutheastAsianFilmStudiesInstitute

Our Architecture Magazine sells for $ 12 on Amazon.com! - Check it out on the Amazon website.Filed under: Uncategorized
6 years ago
Something to Sing About

Ha Ha Ha (South Korea, 2010) - Because last Saturday's drink up was strange. "Drinking down memory lane," a drunken text message, slurred across time (the flooding of memory) and space ...
8 years ago
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Limitless Cinema

THE DARKEST DAYS OF US - THE DARKEST DAYS OF US (2017, Astrid Rondero, Mexico, A+30) FLESH AND SKIN (2018, Santi Taepanich, documentary, A+5) DEAW DAN NAI (2020, Santi Taepanich, d...
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Newley Purnell

Hotel Giant Oyo Looks to Rewrite Contracts That Fueled Its Rise - That’s the headline on my most recent story, written with my colleague Phred Dvorak, out Thursday. It begins: Oyo Hotels and Homes, which built itself into...
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Still Life in Moving Vehicles

The King Lives On - It has already been two years since Thailand lost their beloved King Rama IX. Images of him are still everywhere in Thailand, including on Thai baht coins...
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Art of the Tuk Tuk

Cabbie Fashion Faux Pas - Let me start by saying that I'm all for people expressing their individuality and I often appreciate those daring enough to break the rules of fashion. Bu...
3 years ago
Jim Algie

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Introducing Lyn's Lakorn Blog

The ‘UGLY Duckling’ series comes to end on Sunday DEC. 20, 2015 - If you only had one lakorn to watch this year, I would highly recommend the first installment of the ‘UGLY duckling’ series from the Bang channel, ‘PERFECT...
4 years ago
kawadjan

Indonesia, so far - Apa kabar, bitches! I'm nearing my fourth month here in Jakarta, and what a ride it has been. I'm primarily talking about my work, perhaps the most intense...
4 years ago
Vintage Asian

Letter from a Rented Wife - Deep cuts. During the Vietnam War, thousands of American soldiers found themselves transported to a temporary home in Udon Thani, in the heart of the count...
5 years ago
Bangkok of the Mind

Playing like a Dream - Dream is thawing out slowly, but still hasn’t brought himself to speak. Instead, he comes out for a look at me, every night when I turn up after work. He w...
6 years ago
Thai 101

ilovethailand.org ... or else! - So this is strange... the new website ilovethailand.org aims to ease the country's massive political, socioeconomic, and cultural divisions by bolstering n...
10 years ago
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