MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Warning: Too Many Zooms
It’s blue-grey. It’s techy-forward. It’s bloody paranoid. It’s Zhang Yimou banging the drum in Scare Out.
Blades of Glory
Hey, Blades of the Guardians lured Jet Li out of hiding, if only for a few minutes. Better than zero.
Bird Brained
Sam Quah’s at it again, wading into another Asian Hellhole in The Fire Raven.
Raising Something
Bi Gan’s Resurrection goes down a very, very, very deep Cannes rabbit hole.
Odd Man Out
Come to Against All Odds for a lost WWII resistance tale, stay for Louise Wong with a flamethrower.
A Watery Grave
Third time is not the charm for Dante Lam’s ‘Operation’ series because Operation Hadal is a mess.
Fresh Fruit
Somehow, Da Peng has made what might be the world’s first fruit thriller in The Lychee Road.
Sand Blasted
Zhang Qi’s neo-western noir-thriller Trapped comes really close to greatness.
Billion Dollar Baby
Well, there’s certainly more movie in Jiaozi’s billion-dollar grossing Ne Zha 2.
Zero Sum Filmmaking
You think you know what you’ll get in Detective Chinatown 1900, but you’d be wrong.
The Empire Strikes Again
Wuershan is two-for-two with Creation of the Gods Ii: Demon Force and damn, did he just promise zombies?
Very Vincible
Invincible Swordsman is indeed a movie, with, like, actors and stuff, and Zzzzz…
Let the Game Begin
Huzzah! It’s a new SEA Hellhole Thriller, Octopus with Broken Arms. Brace for impact.
Setting the Bar
Donnie Yen positions himself as more than just an ass-kicker in The Prosecutor.
On Your ‘Mark’
Here’s something you don’t see everyday: the Canuck immigration tale. Behold, Fresh Off Markham.