Fantasia 2013 bits I

10 years ago

Reviews bits of the Fantasia Film Festival.

HK: Hentai Kamen (Yûichi Fukuda, 2013)

10 years ago

Apart from the fact that it’s one of the most entertaining films of 2013, the best thing about HK: Hentai…

The Lady Assassin (Quang Dung Nguyen, 2013)

10 years ago

The Lady Assassin, a martial arts blockbuster, is my first Vietnamese film. A light Sunday night screening at this year’s…

Ip Man: The Final Fight (Herman Yau, 2013)

10 years ago

Ip Man: The Final Fight is centred around an ensemble cast of characters including Ip Man’s first students, so we…

Key of Life (Kenji Uchida, 2012)

11 years ago

Key of Life’s premise is very close to Rough Cut’s (Hun Jang, 2008). It effectively mixes comedy and drama, resulting…

Drug War (Johnny To, 2012)

11 years ago

Drug War's writing is sharp and gripping, surprising us at every turn, setting up great action scenes, brilliantly directed by…

Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, 2013) | Lesson of the Evil (Takashi Miike, 2012)

11 years ago

Shield of Straw My first film at Fantasia in 2013 was Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw, one of the director’s…

My Fantasia 2013: Preamble

11 years ago

Fantasia 2013 started with a change of venue (the Concordia Hall theater is gone for now, under construction), and we…

The Human Race (Paul Hough, 2013)

11 years ago

The Human Race is an atypical survival horror film containing some sci-fi elements and archetypal characters in inventive genre-bending situations.

Graceland (Ron Morales, 2012)

11 years ago

Graceland is a dark and dirty moral tale of desperation and revenge, denouncing corruption. Yet, it isn’t sophisticated enough to…