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Taiwan Cinefest Expands to North America, 2012 Line-Up Announced
Used to be you had to be in London to enjoy the latest and greatest films from Taiwan, which was bad news for Stateside fans wanting a little taste. Now you won’t actually have...
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Spellbound (2011) Movie Review #2
Romantic comedy gets a ghostly twist with the Korean film “Spellbound” (aka “Chilling Romance”), which marks the directorial debut of “Love Phobia” and “Two Faces of My Girlfriend” writer Hwang In Ho. Mixing laughs,...
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Another Creepy Little Teaser for Director Takeshi Furusawa’s Another
Creepy dolls! High school-related murders! Decapitations! Director Takeshi Furusawa’s upcoming horror flick “Another” seems to have just about everything you could possibly want from an Asian horror movie. However, it remains to be seen...
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South Korean Director Byung-ki Ahn Brings Some Terror to China with Bi Xian
Director Byung-ki Ahn, best known for his South Korean horror flicks “Bunshinsaba”, “Phone”, and “A.P.T.”, is all set to scare the knickers off Chinese audiences with his upcoming genre outing “Bi Xian”. The film...
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Love On-Air (2012) Movie Review
aka “Wonderful Radio” As its title suggests, “Love On-Air” is a radio themed Korean romantic comedy, which revolves around popular actress Lee Min Jung (“Cyrano Agency”) as a DJ and former pop star juggling...
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Nightcap: Ai Hashimoto Will Terrorize Audiences in Sadako 3D
I should, in theory, be asleep right, songs from the latest Dead Milkmen album dancing through my head. I’m pretty tired, yet here I am, buzzed from the revelation that “Confessions” star Ai Hashimoto...
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Four Images, Two Posters for Gordon Chan’s Kung Fu Flick The Four
If you missed our coverage of Gordon Chan’s upcoming horror/martial arts effort “The Four”, then you really missed out. After nearly wetting myself while watching the trailer, I wrote a gushy little article about...
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Ridiculous New Poster for Director Sin Tae-ra’s Runway Cop
It’s hard to admit to friends and family that you’re looking forward to a movie about a frumpy detective who cross dresses in order to solve a crime. They have a tendency to look...
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The Magicians (2005) Movie Review
Originally released back in 2005, “The Magicians” was the 4th film from Korean indie director Song Il Gon, known for artistic and offbeat genre offerings such as “Feathers in the Wind”, “Spider Forest”, and...
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New Trailer For Im Sang-Soo’s Erotic Thriller The Taste Of Money
After garnering a fair amount of acclaim and recongition for his 2010 offering “The Housemaid”, Korean director Im Sang-soo is back with his latest project “The Taste of Money”. Im’s film is scheduled to...
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Speed Angels (2011) Movie Review
Hong Kong director Jingle Ma follows up “Love You You” and “Mulan” with more cinematic popcorn in the glossy form of “Speed Angels”. In this latest bid for commercial success and mass appeal, Ma...
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High Flying First Trailer for Director Patrick Leung’s Wu Dang
Attach Corey Yuen’s name to just about anything and, chances are, I’ll be there. And while he’s not directing the upcoming martial arts flick “Wu Dang” — that credit goes to “Twins Effect II”...
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The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate to Make its IMAX 3D Debut This September
If you’re a fan of old school martial arts with new school 3D technology, then Tsui Hark’s “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate” is the movie you’ve been looking for all your life. A...
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Three More Spooky Posters for Kim Tae-Kyeong’s Don’t Click
Does anyone really need three more posters for the upcoming South Korean horror flick “Don’t Click”? Of course they don’t, but here they are nonetheless. As I’ve stated countless times in the past, “Don’t...
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South Korean Thriller Miss Conspirator Snags a New Teaser, Poster
File this one under “I’d Hate This Thing if it Starred Katherine Heigl”. The whole “adorable female versus the mob” sounds like a recipe for meet-cutes and embarrassingly cheesy hijinks. And while I can’t...
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Teaser Trailer for the Chinese Thriller Cold War Features Interviews, Behind-the-Senes Footage
The first clip for directing duo Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s upcoming actin/thriller “Cold War” is interesting in that it only contains interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. Although it’s kind of cool to hear what...
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Director Jo Beom-goo’s Glossy Actioner Quick Headed to North America
Action junkies with a fondness for motorcycles and explosions could do worse than director Jo Beom-goo’s ultra-slick South Korean action extravaganza “Quick”. Sure, the movie doesn’t make a lot of sense, and, yes, it’s...
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