Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, The Matrix trilogy, and even the Kung Fu Panda series all stem from the genre known as wuxia, which translates to “martial heroes” in Chinese. It is...
Plane crashes, capsized ships, and natural disasters are tragic yet fascinating for the storyteller who can use an event as the plot device. Real and fictitious disasters play a central role in...
Director: Chandler Levack
Writer: Chandler Levack
Stars: Isiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo,
Synopsis:
Having debuted at TIFF last September and being screened at the 40th annual Miami Film Festival, this excellent debut by Canadian writer/director Chandler Levack connected to this...
In this upcoming month’s set of releases, Criterion gives the 4K UHD re-release treatment to two of its already existing editions while adding two more to the collection. These new additions are...
Recently, the 37th Goya Awards (Spain’s own Oscars) handed out its Honorary Goya for achievement to legendary writer/director Carlos Saura, one of the country’s most acclaimed filmmakers for the last sixty years....
This past February, I got to sit down and watch fully closely the work of a British film renegade, one open to gay themes when it was still such a closeted subject....
Gangster crime dramas date back to the early years of sound and the obsession with the Italian Mafia came when it was first recognized as an existing organized crime unit. Italy’s post-war...
March only has four films for release this month; one is a classic from the film noir era, along with three new entries. Two of them, coincidently, came out the same year;...
