There is something sinister about Yamato Haimura apart from the fact that he is a serial killer who has been convicted of the murder of eight young adults and charged with the…
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The opening credits of Jun Robles Rana’s Big Night! (2022) inform us about the “watch list”, created by the Philippines government to eradicate drug addiction by taking the refuge of village officials…
Not many of us can forget how it was when WHO first announced that we are in the middle of a deadly pandemic. There was chaos everywhere and confusion leading to and…
“Even a bad film has a group of mad people behind the camera”, goes an interestingly self-reflexive line in Justin Cheung and Li Ho’s film about film-making, Legendary in Action! (2022). It’s…
Every time I am watching a coming-of-age story, I secretly wish the director brings to screen a glimpse of the whirlpool of emotions that a teenager goes through at the cusp of…
Here comes another gorgeous film based on the Rashomon effect. ‘One and Four’s tightly wound narrative brings out Kurosawa’s timeless cinematic invention. There is a debate about Orson Welles doing it with…