film

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill: Review
by J. Fletcher|01 November 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
After the overwhelming success and popularity of the first Fable (2019) film, it came as no surprise when the studio Shochiku announced a sequel had been fast-tracked, continuing the misadventures of Akira Sato, one of Japan’s most notoriously efficient assassins,...
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Hold Me Back: Review
by J. Fletcher|28 October 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
Based on the 2020 novel from Risa Wataya, Hold Me Back takes an interesting approach to the modern day rom-com, delivering a poignant and moving glimpse into the lives of young Japanese women tackling the new gender norms and dating...
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Frank Lotito: Finding Smith
by J. Fletcher|23 October 2021|Features, Interviews, Post Category
With so much content streaming in the current marketplace, it can be a frustrating exercise for a filmmaker to find an audience for their work. Especially with the pandemic saturating the market like never before, forcing distributors to offload a...
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Scott Derrickson: Dialling in Death
by J. Fletcher|21 October 2021|Interviews, Post Category, Trailers
2021 has been a difficult year for the horror genre with a number of hit and miss releases struggling to find an audience during what has arguably been an actual year of hell. But with Halloween on the horizon, it...
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Josee: Review
by J. Fletcher|14 September 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
Director Jong-kwan Kim has to be one of South Korea’s hardest working directors, having completed the introspective Shades of the Heart (also playing at this year’s KOFFIA) just months after releasing his brooding adaptation of the young adult novel Josee, the Tiger and...
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Double Patty: Review
by J. Fletcher|02 September 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
Romantic dramedies have become a staple of South Korean film culture thanks to box-office success stories of such films as My Sassy Girl (2001) and On Your Wedding Day (2018), which have engrained themselves so heavily on the South Korea’s youth that they now...
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Shades of the Heart: Review
by J. Fletcher|02 September 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
One the highlights of the 2021 Korean Film Festival was the inclusion of Jong-kwan Kim’s sublime drama Shades of the Heart. A deeply engaging cinematic experience that deftly explores the various levels of emotional trauma both inflicted and soothed by the...
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I Don’t Fire Myself: Review
by J. Fletcher|01 September 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
It’s safe to say that the equality movement has been a little slow on the up take in certain Asian cultures without having a defining catalyst such as the ‘Me Too’ movement or deliberate outright attacks on women’s rights as...
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Raging Fire: Review
by J. Fletcher|23 August 2021|Film Reviews, Post Category
What do you get when you take a righteous seasoned cop with a pregnant wife; a rogue unit of ex-officers hell-bent on bloody revenge; a vicious underworld kingpin; elaborate heists underpinning street-level action sequences; a hierarchy of corrupt police officials...
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S.K. Dale: Till Death
by J. Fletcher|05 August 2021|Features, Interviews, Post Category
Having honed his genre chops directing the acclaimed short films Tommy (2020) and The Coatmaker (2018), Australian filmmaker Scott Dale, who now operates under the pseudonym S.K. Dale, delivers his debut feature film, Till Death. Landing somewhere between a darkly comedic survival thriller and...
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