By David Pountain Lee Po-cheung’s funny and affecting Gangster Payday is not your typical Hong Kong triad flick. Bypassing the taut set pieces and operatic violence you would usually associate with the genre, the film […]
Interviews
Round table interview conducted by FilmDoo, Hangul Celluloid and TooMuchNoiseBlog Between Bong Joon-ho’s already classic 2006 monster movie The Host, Park Chan-wook’s cult hit Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, recent Wachowski projects Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending […]
By Rebecca Rowson Australia’s 52 Tuesdays begins with a teenager, Billie, finding out her mother plans to transition into a man and change his name to James. Whilst James goes through this, he wants to […]
By David Pountain Watch If I Close My Eyes I’m Not Here on FilmDoo With its nuanced characterisations and sensitive, intellectually honest depictions of youth, education, migrant work and domestic abuse, Vittorio Moroni’s If I Close My […]
By David Pountain From the resonant absurdity of The Wayward Cloud to the most penetrating finale of the year in Stray Dogs, Chen Shiang-chyi has an outstanding record of performing in profound, socially relevant works […]
By David Pountain With its relentlessly bleak visual palette and intensely troubling subject matter (namely murder and child molestation), it’s safe to say that upcoming Belgian crime drama The Treatment will not appeal to every taste. […]