by James Marsh, November 22, 2009 4:20 AM
Wong Jing's latest effort is a bizarre gangster comedy that flirts with also being a psychological thriller, before settling into more comfortable triad territory. Nick Cheung plays Fai, a triad hitman coming to the end of a 30-year stretch...
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by Todd Brown, November 21, 2009 10:15 PM
Big, big thanks to Kevin at Nippon Cinema for digging this one up. My utter Japanese illiteracy was preventing me from finding it myself and it was making me more than a little crazy ...Back in late July news...
by Canfield, November 21, 2009 3:42 PM
If you've never seen The Prisoner do so. This was simply one of the most compelling and interesting episodic TV shows ever. A man quits his job as a government operative and is drugged just as he is about to...
by Canfield, November 21, 2009 3:28 PM
I've seen every single one of these episodes too many times to count. Doesn't matter a bit. This is timeless inventive, stuff. The kind of thing that you feel obligated to introduce to the unitiated and invite friends overt o...
by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:43 PM
Actually this is titled the Ultimate Edition. But in any case I finally have a copy of the Black Adder! Wherever you stand on which of the four incarnations is best, funniest etc. there is no doubt that Black Adder...
by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:34 PM
When I was a kid there was a program, a wildly popular documentary program, called In Search Of.... Narrated by Leonard Nimoy it offered viewers the chance to explore all sorts of speculative and paranormal phenomena. Bigfoot, Nessie, UFOs, disturbing...
by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:24 PM
When they say the Universe they aren't kidding. This massive 14 disc set contains the History Channels The Universe Season One, Season Two, The Planets and How The Earth Was Made plus two bonus documentaries Inside The Volcano, and Beyond...
by Rodney Perkins, November 21, 2009 11:00 AM
2009 has been a great year for the release of vintage Japanese films on North American DVD. One of the more unique and unexpected Japanese releases of the year is AnimEigo's four disc collector's set of the sentimental Tora-san...
by X, November 20, 2009 10:30 PM
Few directors have had as big an impact with their debut film as Na Hong-Jin of 추격자 (The Chaser) had last year, convincing critics that we might have a major talent on our hands, but also selling over five million...
by Andrew Mack, November 20, 2009 7:38 PM
Well this is just... just... well it's just FANTASTIC news coming from our friends at Evokative Films. Together with Fantastic Fest they will be having their first ever US theatrical release in Austin, Texas early in December. the film? You...
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