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10.23.2023
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
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The first half abstracts itself to such a fragmented degree its noir romance becomes slippery to the point of inscrutable but its that ins...
10.21.2023
LAMB
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Child-rearing as a horror trope has staked its own tiny piece of real estate in the genre but this one is leeched of the grimy weirdness t...
FIRST REFORMED
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Deepens on second watch not least for reminding me how intentionally Bressonian a character Travis Bickle was (ask Schrader, ask Scorsese)...
10.16.2023
MONSTER
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Not like that over-familiar Kurosawa go-to, no, not really, because the story here doesn't shape-shift in the telling and re-telling, ...
10.15.2023
TALK TO ME
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The high concept of this one, no pun intended, is possession as a drug you can drop, which is must admit clever-ish. The places it takes t...
10.08.2023
BUTTERFLY KISSES
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I now know what a butterfly kiss means. Don't trust me when I say that this one is worth your trouble. My love for found footage runs ...
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU
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I was thinking of the Slumber Party Alien Abduction episode of V/H/S 2 the whole time watching this. Always found it unfair to compare one ...
COBWEB
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Stays a few steps ahead by pretending it's a few steps behind, This is not the Kim Jee-Won film but rather a mash-up of Parents with Ri...
9.24.2023
MOVING
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Never been much of a rom-com stan, except for that brief time when I was obsessed with Duckie getting Andie at the end of Pretty In Pink ,...
8.21.2023
HOME FOR RENT
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Even if it had stayed within its fairly tropey new-tenants-are-weird course, thing would've still worked but then it cuts to an elaborat...
8.18.2023
DEVILS YOU KNOW
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Panahon Ng Halimaw Directed and Written by Lav Diaz My Twitter feed regularly explodes with governmental disgruntlement. Sometimes...
10.14.2019
A THIRD WAVE
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Wrote a piece for the Japan Foundation about the tip of the iceberg that is domestic experimental ci...
10.04.2019
BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY
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Richard Bolisay and I met literally in the comments sections of our respective film blogs. I didn't know Chard but I had been voracious...
2.13.2018
UNDERRATED ASIAN HORRORS
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What Asian horror cinema seemed to understand a lot better than Hollywood horror ever will is that fear is irrational and the mor...
HORRORS IN THE SLIPSTREAM
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What’s a slipstream? A category, but one that constantly resists being one, reaching to go beyond making one necessary. The scie...
3.12.2017
ALTERED STATE
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Almost three years ago, I dragged myself out of the soft bed at the Hotel Palacky in Karlovy Vary earlier than I should have and,...
5.06.2016
THE GHOSTS OF WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
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December 2015. I land in Singapore a little past midnight and recognize nothing. The last time I was here was also the first time I was her...
4.10.2016
BLADE OF GRASS
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The last film of a dear old friend who is sorely missed is screening tonight (April 10), 7 PM at the Green Papaya for free. Plea...
1.01.2016
LET'S KILL MAINDIE: MY YEAR IN CINEMA
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2015 was like a crack den for cinephiles. On a more personal note, a lot of my friends made films, debuts and otherwise, and am proud ...
11.24.2015
PHANTOM POWER IN TAIPEI CITY
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On my last day in Taipei, we had started showing each other pictures of our family on our phones. We being festival volunteers L...
6.29.2014
THE DAPPER BOND
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Call me weird but in the speculative frenzy over who the next James Bond was going to be after Pierce Brosnan broke loose from the ...
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ORIENT PEARLS
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Hong Kong was the first kiss in my eventual, and undying, romance with all cinemas Asian. I call it a romance because that’s precise...
ZERO FOR CONDUCT
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Apologies. This is terribly late and worse, this isn't even how I usually write these year-end pieces. I never expected the other writi...
3.18.2014
ALL TOMORROW'S SIRENS
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Daniel Faraday called it a constant. Daniel Faraday being the jittery physicist from Lost . And the reason he was so jittery may wel...
1.05.2014
CRAWLING BACK TO YOU: MY 2013 IN MUSIC
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Turns out, despite promises to the contrary , this year's disclaimer is last year's disclaimer but then, you don't even have to...
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