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film features/The Banana Guide to Asian Entertainment: It’s All About Japan: Part III
posted Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
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Greetings, YAMMies! We are on the third part of my Japanese entertainment journey of a series on the Banana views on Asian entertainment.

tv reviews/ThunderCats (2011) – Season 1
posted Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
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With animation done by Studio 4C, the look and feel of Thundercats goes beyond a regular cartoon, revamping the story and making it darker.

film reviews/Seediq Bale
posted Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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This historical epic — the most expensive Taiwanese movie ever made at $25M USD and directed by Wei Te-Sheng — depicts the Wushe Incident, in which the Taiwanese aborigines rose against the Japanese, killing over 130 of them.

product reviews/Battle Royale: The Complete Collection – 4-Disc Bluray
posted Monday, April 30th, 2012
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I will tell you this, there’s no better home release for Battle Royale than this one.

trailers/Hemingway & Gellhorn Trailer
posted Monday, April 16th, 2012
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Hemingway & Gellhorn will tell the story of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, Ernest Hemingway, during the late 30s.

film features/Beginner’s Guide To Classic French Cinema
posted Friday, April 6th, 2012
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Ten essential films by ten essential filmmakers from the first sixty years of France’s rich cinematic history.

blog/Korean Films: We Aren’t All About Vengeance
posted Monday, March 5th, 2012
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Is it wrong to judge a movie’s sentimentalism when it’s actually a cultural thing, whether or not you show your over-dramatic feelings? Is everything supposed to be emotion free to be well regarded “internationally”? Maybe. Maybe we should stop seeing foreign films with our foreign eyes and begin watching their films like they watch them.