MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Dear, Dear, Dear
This year Chinese box office phenom, Dear You, is the weirdest box office phenom in a good long while.
Newly Crowned
Korean history has always done well at the Korean box office but The King’s Warden is next level.
‘Past’ Imperfect
Fans: Louis Koo is going Back to the Past. Non-fans? Maybe try SpongeBob.
Resistance Chic
Harbin may not say anything new but it sure nails the resistance chic aesthetic.
We Are Entertained
Is it blasphemy to suggest Gladiator II might be a smidge better than Gladiator, even without Russell Crowe?
Ordinary ‘LIfe’
Anthony Hopkins makes the British Oskar Schindler into a compellign wartime hero in the otherwise honourable, but pedestrian, One Life.
Ode to Odes
Fire up the metronome. The Chinese animated blockbuster Chang An makes poets kick ass.
He said, he said, she said
Who knew Ridley Scott could not put his foot in mouth about a sensitive subject?