Director: Michael Onder Tokyo International Film Festival review With a title referencing Texas hold’em, a game of probability and psychology, Turkish director Michael Onder’s debut Taksim Hold’em incorporates the game literally and symbolically into a dark […]
Based on horrific true events that unfolded between the Filipino military and the locals in rural Mindanao, The Right to Kill offers an intense and mournful depiction of a family whose peaceful lives are tragically […]
Though sex on screen has been an existent phenomenon for almost as long as the various mediums that have enabled it, pornography’s place in society remains one of continuous transformation in line with shifting cultural trends […]
A twisted highlight from this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, Govinda Van Maele’s Gutland is a mind-bending and effectively constructed slow-burner of a film that sees German criminal Jens take refuge in a small Luxembourgish village. Jens’ self-preserving […]
Director: Wang Wan-jo Tokyo International Film Festival review In Wang Wan-jo’s enlightening, if rather nichey tribute to the unsung heroes of sound and their deceptively unobtrusive artistry, we see that there is more than one way to be […]
Director: Akiko Ohku Tokyo International Film Festival review High school is the psychological monster that refuses to die. Whatever hang-ups, regrets and fixations you develop in this formative period will likely stay with you for […]
