#DoubleFeature: Life, Taste, Dad and Roaches
Recently caught Taiwan’s Little Big Women (孤味) and found many similar themes to my favorite 2019 film, Hong Kong’s Fagara (花椒之味).
Recently caught Taiwan’s Little Big Women (孤味) and found many similar themes to my favorite 2019 film, Hong Kong’s Fagara (花椒之味).
Gordos Double Feature~ Johnnie To’s Love on a Diet (瘦身男女) Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s Gordos
Happy new year, everyone! Here’s to a 2018 with more writing and more movies. Looking back at my movie-watching last year, I don’t think I watched too many films from the West, so this list seems incredibly unbalanced.
Two European mercenaries are in search of ‘black powder’ in the Middle Kingdom, when they run into the Great Wall, guarded by a special division of the Imperial Army known as The Nameless Order, protecting it from mysterious green monsters.
For the current on-going edition of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, I put together a list of movies from -almost- all the countries participating in the event.
Bridge of Fate (緣分一道橋) is the theme song for Zhang Yimou’s upcoming The Great Wall, sung by Leehom Wang and Tan Weiwei.
For those who have yet to experience the sensation that is the casino-themed film, I have put together a list of my favorites to get you started on your journey.
The Great Wall is the first blockbuster US-China co-production, starring Matt Damon and Andy Lau.
A retired bodyguard suffering from early onset of dementia must recover his forgotten skills to protect the people he has befriended in the China-Russia-North Korea border from goons.