Things categorized as 'Film Reviews'
Film Review: The Moss
Squat - The Moss via kwout Unfortunately, we haven't had enough time to devote to this website. I wrote a review that appeared on Batgwa/Squat, which you can read by clicking ...
Movie Review: Help Me Eros （幫幫我愛神）
Anyone familiar with Tsai Ming Liang's work is going to understand and find faimilair the miasma of neon alienatoin which envelops the entirety of the "Help me Eros." People who are familiar ...
Movie Review: Besieged City (圍城）
If you're a fan of the "gutter-trawling" alienated youths genre of film, you should find this one enjoyable: and I did not intend to be ironic there, because ...
Peng Tao, Wait and 〈血蝉〉
彭韬凭《血蝉》获亚洲数码录像银奖 王小帅颁奖_影音娱乐_新浪网 via kwout《血蝉》（Xue Chan/Little Moth) is a film about a girl that gets sold into slavery, joining one of those large beggars' rings that anyone that's spent any time ...
Movie Review: Boomtown Beijing
Boomtown Beijing does fulfill its basic mission of capturing how ordinarhy Beijing residents are preparing for the Olympics. It's an interesting cross-section of Beijing--there;s an old man practicsing magic sticks, a nearly ...
Movie Review:The Forbidden Kingdom (功夫之王）
This self-orientalizing piece of crap has a few good moments. Since they are few and far between, we'll just tell you what they are. Li Bing Bing plays the white-haired witch, ...
Movie Review: In Love We Trust 《左右》
An interesting take on some of the problems caused by the one child policy. Wang Xiaoshuai's latest garnered him a best director award at the Berlin film festival.The story centers around a divorced ...
Movie Review:Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon 《见龙卸甲》
None of the recent wuxia martial art epics can seem to avoid the the endemic schlockiness of the genre, so as a viewer we are just content to find one ...
Movie Review:《哭泣的女人》/Cry Woman/Les Larmes de Madame Wang
We saw this movie in the theater, in Paris, which it seems is one of the only places where this movie could be seen on the big screen other than at film ...