Spring Bears Love
Spring Bears Love is a rather atypically typical movie — it has all the elements behind your run of the mill romantic dramedy, but it feels “indie” in its making.
Tagged: mood: optimistic
Artist, The (2011)
The Artist is a film that works as a exposition of the film industry rather than a love letter towards classic films.
Ai Love (2012)
Doze Niu’s follow-up to his gangster drama is a complex dramedy about various types of love in contemporary China-Taiwan relations.
Chang-rae Lee – Aloft
Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.
Usagi Drop
Based on the josei manga by Yumi Unita, Usagi Drop tells the story of 27-year-old Daikichi, who ends up living with his grandfather’s 6-year-old illegitimate child, Rin, after his passing.
Happy Feet Two
Admit it, Happy Feet set itself a pretty damn high standard, however, this sequel isn’t awful. It’s not perfect, but it’s incredibly entertaining.
Mayday 3DNA
Taiwanese mega-band Mayday gives a concert in Shanghai that a girl in Guangzhou, a broken-hearted couple, and a bike courier are all attending.
Stefne Miller – Salvaged
Attie is an ordinary teenage girl — very witty, smart and very much afraid. As the first book of two, Salvaged tells the story of how she gets closer to God, to her family and to a boy she wants to love.
Chico & Rita
Chico & Rita is a chronicle of long lost love, as the couple’s relationship is a roller-coaster of emotions, but it also follows the evolution of Cuban music.
