Year: 2012

[NYAFF Review] Doomsday Book

In the omnibus Korean film Doomsday Book, two different filmmakers tackle 2012's running theme (the apocalypse) with three different short films that are es...

10 Films to See In July

It's impossible to ignore the clear contender for most-anticipated film of the month, let alone year, but will Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy end with a...

[NYAFF Review] Nameless Gangster

Set against President Tae-woo Roh's 1990 crackdown on organized crime in South Korea, Bumchoiwaui junjaeng places us into the wild life of a former Busan custo...

[NYAFF Review] Wu Xia

In Peter Chan's action packed epic Wu Xia (or Swordsmen), the successful Chinese director takes the classic wu xia genre of films made popular by the Shaw B...

[Review] People Like Us

A character-driven drama is not something many would assume to place in writer Alex Kurtzman's wheelhouse. Kurtzman and his writing partner, Roberto Orci, usual...