Some say the first two years of child raising are the most difficult, and the film definitely picks great moments to share, of the small boy’s life with his actor parents for us to chuckle. Playing out like a Tax Avery cartoon,...

Samson Chiu’s Golden Chicken is trying to be endearing satire, but its combining too little to chew of actual Chinese social changes with silly sex gags is exhausting. And is it really all that funny, plot revolving around pro...

Ping Pong, in trying to be friendly and optimistic, also comedically cush cush, fits the mold of too many other silly comedies, forgetting to craft an onscreen originality in characters and plot. Though it finds laughs from a t...

Kar Wai Wong’s 1994 Chungking Express, what with twenty-four frames per second (sometimes doubled), soft film grain, and crisp little rips and shreds of the running celluloid in between cuts, is a magic of cinema history to be...

There’s a scene early on within the film when Johnston, played by Andy Lau, the titular blind detective, is making a sandwich within his shabby apartment. He’s got a handful of ingredients and an impatient appetite. Without waf...

When a radio station lead, Ushijima, is asked to ready their latest play, a winning entry from an amateur writing contest they’ve sponsored for live recording, the new playwright, Miyako, learns of the downward hustle in assume...

Quirky and in the same cross-over style as Stephen Chow’s “Kung Fu Hustle”, “Mr. and Mrs. Incredible” from Vincent Kok, brings a little story on a super-hero couple’s love life gone stale. It is trying to be funny --in some cas...

Within our world, there are 666 portals that lead to another realm, a realer, grittier version of Earth’s good and evil tale, mostly evil though, and in Japan the 444th portal exists, specifically within the Forest of Resurrect...

I would imagine you just cannot form a solid alibi when you have a dead man’s entrails in personal observational vats, and he will need some experienced assistance with clearing his name from the suspect roster.