Creative Spotlight: Episode #19 – Allen “AW177″ Wen
Episode 19 gave us an opportunity to spend time with AW177 to see his art and toy collection. Allen’s work as an artist and his super cool personality gave us a very slick insider’s look at the vinyl toy phenomenon. We chop it up about fatherhood, color schemes, anime, & Japanese culture. Click to read the full interview!
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Review
Buried deep in the heart of darkness, on this or that side of the DMZ line, in Laos and or Thailand lives Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palm d’Or at Cannes for his jungle pastoral cum “Buddhist tone poem” depicting the visitors and ancestors, both human and animal that visit Boonmee in his final days on this side. Maybe the most haunting film you will never completely understand...
Chanbara Striptease – Review
This over the top release from Japan spoofs everything from video games, to martial arts movies, to sexploitation cinema. The fight scenes, whilst staged and not as spectacular as you might expect, are still well done, and I can't think of many movies which have the heroine and villain perform swordcatching tricks with their boobs! Click for the full review...
Pom Poko – Review
Pom Poko is directed by another studio Ghibli genious Isao Takahata who happens to be Hayao Miyazaki's long time friend and his senior. Pom Poko remains studio Ghibli's most strange film till date which is in no way lesser rich and intense than any other Ghibli films but few contents in the movie may put some viewers off. Click for the full review...
Pigs and Battleships – Review
A stunning portrayal of post-war life in Japan, Shohei Imamura's wild, chaotic and gloriously funny Pigs and Battleships is a defining document not just of Imamura's singular style – a deliberate assault on Yasujiro Ozu's rarefied serenity – but also of his idiosyncratic yet deeply humane worldview. Click for the full review...
Last Train Home – Review
'The Last Train Home' is not exactly is a feature film. It's a somewhat epic and very touching piece of real life documentary which is rolled around 2 Chinese emigrant workers. The skillful director Lixin Fan has followed this couple for over 2 years in making this movie which truly could have being a very challenging feet considering the moments that's captured on film. Click to read the full review...
Creative Spotlight: Episode #18 – Johanna Basford
Johanna is a fantastic artist I just had to share with you guys. In the Creative Spotlight episode 18, we feature Johanna who In 2001, she headed to Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, where she graduated 4 years later with a first class honours degree in Printed Textiles. Click below to read the full interview...
Barking Dogs Never Bite – Review
Bong Joon-ho’s debut is a remarkably adept black comedy and while it isn’t up to the standards of his later work, he still manages to impress. He even somehow manages to sidestep most clichés and never insults the viewer’s intelligence, a common trap for most first time directors. Click here for the full movie review...
Tales From Earthsea – Review
Tales from Earthsea is done by Goro Miyazaki, the son of well known animator, Hayao Miyazaki. For the most part, it seems like Goro is intent to follow in dads footsteps in creating animation almost identical to his fathers...which, is astoundingly beautiful. Click to read the full anime film review...
Pale Flower – Review
Pale Flower is somewhat reminiscent of the great French master Jean Pierre-Melville, who often turned genre material into elegantly stylized vehicles of personal expression. It is also similar in the manner in which the unusual relationships between the main characters are delineated. Click to read the full review of this 1964 classic...
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