Midnight Diner (Tony Leung Ka-fai, 2019)

I am, as I suspect many people are, afflicted with an unquenchable fondness for movies…

Enter the Fat Dragon (Wong Jing & Kenji Tanigaki, 2020)

The Shadow Play (Lou Ye, 2018)

At this point the best advice I can give you, the prospective viewer of a Lou Ye movie, is this: don’t…

The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan, 2019)

One of the most anticipated Chinese titles of this year’s Vancouver International Film…

The Captain (Andrew Lau, 2019)

Andrew Lau Wai-keung is perhaps the most representative Hong Kong director in the post-Handover era. An…

First Love (Takashi Miike, 2019)

Every time I watch a Takashi Miike movie, I end up asking myself why I ever watch movies that aren’t…

The Case of Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai, 2015)

What do you do if you want to make a prequel to one of your best movies, one…