Review by: Mountain Monkey Hong Kong film fans in Singapore were offered a rare treat last month, when the National Museum of Singapore presented ‘The Story of Kong Ngee’ retrospective. Presented in conjunction with the Hong Kong Film Archive, 15 Cantonese [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Available on DVD as part of Quentin Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature, and also on Blu-ray from Japan (warning, no English subtitles available with the Japanese release), I finally [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Coming hot on the heels of last year’s Searching for Sugar Man (2012) is A Band Called Death, a rockumetary that treads a now familiar path about a long-forgotten star/band [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ To commemorate (cash-in on?) the 40th anniversary of Heavy Traffic‘s 1973 release, Shout! Factory recently released the movie on Blu-ray. The re-mastered picture and sound quality of the new disc [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ If you’re looking for a break from the usual 200-million dollar, thrill-a-minute ‘product’ being unleashed by Hollywood this summer (or any other summer), look no further than indie sci-fi flick, [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Released just a year after Sion Sono’s Himizu (2011), The Land of Hope (Kibô no kuni) is the director’s second film to deal with the catastrophic earthquake that devastated Japan [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Having read good things about GFP Bunny, I felt slightly disappointed as the closing credits began to roll. The film, which won a Best Picture Award in the 2012 Tokyo [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ The Gallery Theatre at the National Museum of Singapore was almost at capacity for the screening of this documentary and for good reason too. Despite some minor shortcomings, Japan Lies [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Part of the Japanese Film Festival’s ‘Around the 80s’ theme, Farewell To The Land was released in 1982 by screenwriter and director Mitsuo Yanagimachi. Screened in crackly, vibrant 35mm to [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Since Donnie Yen kicked the living daylights out of the Japanese in Ip Man (2008), we’ve seen a flurry of Ip Man-inspired movies, some good and some not so [...]
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