Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Decades after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a young Mexican woman (Natalia Reyes) comes under attack from an advanced killer robot from the future, with her only protection coming from a time-travelling guardian (Mackenzie Davis) and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) - an embittered survivor who has been fighting Terminators for her entire life. Terminator has been ...
A man named Joe reminisces on his childhood in the early 1940s, when his extended family lived together in Rockaway Beach and radio was the king of American culture. In a series of anecdotes he recalls both the famous incidents of the local radio empire as well as his own young self (Seth Green) growing ...
In 1906 Hong Kong a team of pro-democracy revolutionaries secretly prepare for the arrival of their leader, Dr Sun Yat-sen. At the same time, a representative of the empire makes preparations of his own – not to greet or defend Dr Sun, but to assassinate him. When these two forces collide the result is a ...
Documentary filmmaker Waad al-Kateab is in the Syrian city of Aleppo when its citizens begin a civil uprising that leads to a five-year siege on the city by Russian and Syrian military forces. Through helping to establish a makeshift hospital, to finding love, facing tragedy, and giving birth to a daughter named Sama, she continues ...
Kuen (Simon Yam) is a commander in charge of the Kowloon police vehicle pool. By day he supports Hong Kong's police officers in their duties, and by night he returns by bus to Shenzen to care for his intellectually challenged son. In a series of vignettes and encounters, Kuen assists his colleagues, fights random crimes, ...
In an outer suburb of Tokyo, Kanya Ichizawa (Sadawo Abe) and his wife Satoko (Takako Matsu) own and operate a popular local restaurant. When a freak accident sees their restaurant burn down, they are inconsolable. Satoko does her best to make ends meet by working in a nearby ramen shop, but Kanya slips further and ...
Regular readers of this website will likely be aware of my love for director Takashi Miike. He is one of Japan's most versatile directors, jumping from genre to genre pretty much on a film by film basis. He seems as comfortable making a drama as he is a comedy, or a horror film, or a ...
