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		<title>The Knot (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Knot&#8221; is of some significance in being the first joint blockbuster production between Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the first to use a Chinese company for its expansive digital effects work. Boasting a big cast of stars and an ambitious story which takes place in a variety of countries and periods of history, the film certainly bore the marks of a ready made pan-Asian hit. Unfortunately, this did not prove to be the case, and although it performed well in Mainland China, the film floundered badly in other territories, and was not particularly well received by critics. 
The story begins in the present day with a young woman (played by Hong Kong starlet Isabella Leong) travelling around various Asian countries pestering her old painter aunt in New York on the phone for details regarding her apparently mysterious uncle. This awkward prompting leads into the main story, related in flashback and beginning in Taipei in the 1940s. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heirloom (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Heirloom&#8221; marks the debut of Taiwanese director Leste Chen, who had previously worked on music videos for the likes of Joey Yung and Eason Chan, a fact which is probably enough to start alarm bells ringing. Fortunately, the director manages to transcend his roots, and has produced a decent fright flick which, though too flawed and too unambitious to amount to very much, is at least far better than it has any right to be. The film has certainly proved popular in the domestic market, being one of the biggest box office hits in   Taiwan   of 2005, though this may be down to the general lack of quality genre cinema more than anything else.
The plot begins as James (Jason Chang, &#8220;Formula 17&#8243;) inherits a huge, creepy house from his mysterious family, who died twenty years previously in a mass suicide. Possibly as a result of never having seen a horror film in his life, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Mambo (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us, at one point or another, have known a girl like Vicky &#8212; pretty, smart and hailing from a good family, yet somehow aimless and self-destructive. Despite all the opportunities given to her, she always seems to make the wrong decision. She gets involved with all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons and eschews every chance she gets to break out of the cycle. As portrayed by the radiant Shu Qi (&#8221;The Transporter&#8221;) in Hsiao-hsien Hou&#8217;s &#8220;Millennium Mambo,&#8221; Vicky is the singular personification of everything wrong with today&#8217;s disaffected urban youth. Trapped in a dead-end relationship with her good for nothing boyfriend Hao-Hao (Tuan Chun-hao), Vicky&#8217;s life is one long binge of alcohol, recreational drugs and empty sex.
Although set in 2001, Vicky narrates the film in a third person retrospective from 10 years in the future. We learn that she&#8217;s been in and out of a relationship with Hao-Hao since she was 16, intermittently breaking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Hands (1992) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1992&#8217;s &#8220;Pushing Hands&#8221; is the debut film of director Ang Lee, who co-wrote the script with his familiar partner-in-crime, James Schamus. As with all of Lee&#8217;s movies, regardless of genre trappings, the film concerns itself with family and duty, and how the two co-exists, for better or worst. The film stars Sihung Lung, a Lee regular who has been in some of the director&#8217;s most critically acclaimed films, including &#8220;The Wedding Banquet&#8221;, &#8220;Eat Drink Man Woman&#8221;, and the fantasy martial arts epic &#8220;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&#8221;. The rest of the cast, with the exception of the veteran Lai Wang, would never have made it into the movie had this not been Ang Lee&#8217;s first foray into filmmaking. And that, alas, is the movie&#8217;s weakest point. 
As the &#8220;Pushing Hands&#8221; opens, it&#8217;s already been a few months since retired Tai Chi Master Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) moved to America to live with his son Alex (Bo Z. Wang). Alex is married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double Vision (2003) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2003 04:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kuo-fu Chen&#8217;s &#8220;Double Vision&#8221; was written, executed, and intended for international audiences, so maybe this is why the film lacks a more &#8220;Asian&#8221; feel. Oh sure, the screenplay by Chen and Chao-Bin Su makes mention of Taoism, of demons and &#8220;unseen supernatural forces&#8221; and what have you, but the film&#8217;s first 90 minutes plays out like a standard TV episode of &#8220;Profiler&#8221; or &#8220;X-Files&#8221;. And that, I believe, is where &#8220;Double Vision&#8221; falters the most. 
The film stars Tony Leung (&#8221;The Lover&#8221;) as Haung, a disgraced Taiwanese cop who, after blowing the whistle on police corruption, has found himself a pariah and estranged from his wife and daughter. When a series of odd murders begin to appear, the Taiwanese cops are helpless to make a break in the case. Not only that, but they seem unwilling to do so. Enter American FBI agent Kevin Richter (David Morse), who is sent to Taiwan to assist, much to the local cops&#8217; consternation.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2002 01:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ang Lee&#8217;s movies always find a way to surprise me. Maybe that&#8217;s why I like them so much &#8212; I go in not expecting much, but come out having learned a lot about life. Ang Lee&#8217;s oddly titled 1994 Taiwanese film Eat Drink Man Woman is one of those movies that draws you in and surprises you with its effectiveness. Lee and writing partner James Schamus have done numerous movies together, always as director/writer, and have even tackled the genre picture Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and finding a way to inject their own personal and grounded themes into a movie filled with swordplay and fantastical feats. Eat Drink Man Woman is the kind of movie the writing/directing duo is most known for: the small, personal films about love, life, and family, and all the dysfunction, heartache, and triumph in-between. 
Eat Drink Man Woman stars the personable Sihung Lung as Chu, a master chef who is slowly losing his sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, I was blown away by the amazing cinematography of &#8220;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&#8221; (hereby referred to as CTHD for brevity&#8217;s sake). The movie is breathtaking to look at and the acting is first-rate by the leads, although the secondary characters are spotty and employs what I call &#8220;Asian over-acting&#8221; (the belief of many Asian actors that more is more and less is, well, they don&#8217;t know what less is). Thank God the major leads do understand the finer points of acting, and shows their craft off beautifully.  
Despite all that, the movie does have some problems &#8212; in particular the laborious middle part, where we are forced to relive Zhang Ziyi&#8217;s Jen as she falls in love with a rebel warrior in the desert. There is also the matter of dialogue that sounds (because they are) clich&#8217;, as if ripped directly from a cheap chop-socky film. The sequence where multiple characters converge to fight and [...]]]></description>
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