Asian Cinema

… a profound reflection on memory, self-representation, and the violence of being interpreted by others.

… a dazzling fantasy epic with visuals, music, and pathos sharpened to a keen edge.

… a solid band doco that sheds much-needed light on what goes on outside the K-pop bubble.

Young Indonesian filmmaker Amar Haikal digs into the ugly underbelly of his home country with the darkly poetic short film My Plastic Mother  

Having new Iron-Blooded Orphans material making it to cinemas, especially here in the West, should be cause for celebration. The main series marked one of the most dramatically intense of

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley in John Patton Ford's (Emily the Criminal) How to Make a Killing, and anime Scarlet

South Korea’s cinematic master Park Chan-wook may have had huge success with Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022), but that doesn’t mean getting his films greenlit

… woefully overlong for such a (ahem) paper-thin idea …

… formless mush …

… promises to capture the love, energy and sheer size of one of Ado’s grandest performances.