Horror is nothing new in Chinese film, quite often the stories are based off a collection of stories called Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling about a ghost romantically attaching itself to an innocent victim which is how we get films like The Enchanting Shadow (1960) to A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). These type of films are primarily set in ancient times but in the 1970s there was a modern horror boom in Hollywood thanks to the likes of The Exorcist (1973) tha

Ko (Riki Takeuchi) is a motorcycle courier who recently broke up with Fuyumi, the sister of his boss Hidemasa, resulting in Ko going to the countryside where he meets Miyo (Kiwako Hirada), a young local who quickly becomes obsessed with motorcycles. Ko, infatuated with Miyo, decides to teach her how to ride but becomes concerned that her fanaticism may lead to her early and violent demise. His Motorbike, Her Island on the surface is a simple teen romance melodrama with some b

Crimson garbed Wong Siu Wai (Loretta Yang Hui-shan) has just completed her seventeen year training in Japan becoming the first lady ninja but must return to her home country China due to the murder of her father by the traitor, Li Tong (Chen Kuan-tai), who is working with Japan's military occupiers. Wong gets to work to avenge her father by training a group of women in martial arts putting on their unique sexual persuasion skills to take down Li and his crew of bodyguards who

When there's no other hope for a cure, a door opens for dark things to seep and spread slowly morphing into a living nightmare that is far more terrifying than death itself. Mother of Flies (2025) is the newest horror film from shoestring budget meister Adams family, written, directed, and shot by daughters Zelda and Lulu, mother Toby Poser, and father John, who all star in the film as well. Mickey (Zelda Adams) travels with her father, Jake (John Adams), to visit Solveig, a

Linda Liddle's (Rachel McAdams) time has finally come for her big promotion at her consulting job but the new nepo baby CEO, Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien), ain't having any of it. Bradley can't help but get hung up on Linda's antisocial, messy appearance, and anxious ticks to the point that not only is he not promoting her but he's firing her as soon as the business trip for the Bangkok merger is complete. Little did they all know, business deals and promotions are the leas

Marty Mauser is the US champion of table tennis and is on a clear path to become the world champion, he just has to get a few people out of the way to achieve his monumental destiny; a may or may not be his pregnant childhood friend, some business partners, a hustling old friend, husband of said pregnant friend, a hypochondriac mother, an ink company ceo, a nosey uncle, an undervaluing table tennis organization, a fading movie star, a dog loving gangster, and a mysterious opp

Laura Poitras (dir. Citizenfour) new documentary dives into Seymour Hersh's explosive investigative journalism career of over 50 years. A fairly conventional approach in a documentary sense as we watch Hersh career unfold chronologically but there is a subtext in the film that gets one thinking about the current state of journalism. Hersh's first big breaking story was the uncovering of the My Lai massacre by the US military during the Vietnam war. What keeps the segment int

Hyeong-ju Kim's sophomore feature is not reinventing the game on sports dramas based on actual events but has an underlying message about the importance of personal philosophy and growth that grips you by the end. Cho Hu-hyun becomes an international champion of the Asian strategy game Go, bringing the game to the limelight in Korea. Enter prodigy Lee Chang-ho who has captured Cho's attention eventually leading to a mentorship that will test both their limits and gamesmanship

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