(A Nutshell) Review

[This interview is pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film’s screening at this year’s TIFF. For those who have already see...

Today also marks the start to TIFFCOM, which features the Asia-Pacific Entertainment Market. From a film angle, after having gone around the...

We Did It! Cheer Cheer Cheer! is your typical zero to hero student based movie, as the formula never ceases to churn out stories but under d...

Take The Offer! Written and directed by Ivy Ho, best known for her sensitive story in Comrades, Almost a Love Story, I felt that Claustropho...

Let's Handsome! Handsome Suits might be Japan's answer to Korea's 200 Pounds Beauty , and given the success of the latter movie ...

[This review is pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film’s screening at this year’s TIFFCOM.] Choices Playing to full house...

The first time I encountered Jun Ichikawa in person was during last year's Japan Film Festival in Singapore held at the National Museum,...

The festival continues to leave solid impressions on how well run it is, and its pulling off all stops to ensure that the public too can enj...

Left to Right: Liao Chien-hui, (translator), Angel Yao, Lee Chi Yuarn, (translator/moderator) Director Lee Chi Yuarn and actresses Angel Yao...

Carefree For a festival of this magnitude, if you find joy in almost every film watched, then you must be really lucky. It's always a hi...

TIFF continues with its big scale presentations for the general public with the scheduled appearance of the cast from The Cherry Orchard – B...

Wimp! Love Fight steers itself into familiar romantic comedy territory, but has enough pathos to make it one engaging drama about first love...

School Sisters Back in 1990, Shun Nakahara made Sakura No Sono, a movie which is set in an all girls school, where as part of the school...

[This review is pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film’s screening at this year’s TIFF.] Do I Look Like a Sucker? If you ...

[This review is pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film’s screening at this year’s TIFF.] Heal The World "You can...

It's Day Three of the Festival, Today's events at TIFF was a relatively light one, having scheduled only 2 screenings today, one bei...

The Code's 507 The Code has an excellent premise which succinctly introduced the fictional espionage world in which the Detective Office...

Spread Eagle After watching Pang Ho-cheung's Trivial Matters, the stark reminders I have been keeping in view have now gone into red ale...

[This review is pulled forward from the archive to coincide with the film’s screening at this year’s TIFF.] I Need an MC Jiang Wen's lat...

It's Day Two of the Festival, and I'm still pretty much impressed by the way things are run, from efficiency in queue management, as...