Gao Qunshu's Beijing Blues doesn't want for interesting ingredients: the targets of the film's police-officer protagonist are petty, low-level thieves and hustl...
Expectation can be a terrible drug to come down from. With only the tiniest bits of information and foreknowledge, one can allow oneself to be intoxicated on th...
Lines and lines of information weave in and out of each other at a pace far too liminal and frantic for any one person to be on top of any single thing at any g...
Directed by Leslie Small and Tim Story, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is more of a Comedy Central special than a theatrical film. This isn’t to say Kevin Hart does...
Yi-Kwan Kang’s Juvenile Offender is a film 2Pac would have endorsed, as its struggle feels completely universal: misguided youths are bound to repeat when anoth...
Director Jing Wong’s 大上海 is an intriguing entry to the period gangster genre that depicts the weight of triad influence in 1930s Shanghai at the cusp of war wi...
Horror’s popularity amongst academics has to do with what’s often seen as signifiers of the juvenile -- ghosts, zombies and vampires standing in for our everyda...
The opening minutes of Wang Jing's Feng Shui outline a difficult protagonist. Her name is Li Baoli, and, as played by the Beijing-born actress Yan Bingyan, she'...
The present state of South Korea’s national cinema indicates a country under the constant threat of warfare and destruction. Widely recognized films like Park C...
Having already been banned from filmmaking in China twice, it's no surprise director Lou Ye has refused to quell his appetites for highly sexualized, naturalist...
