The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

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Posted on February 8, 2012 by Justin

Remaking Hong Kong cinema’s greatest hits seems to have been all the rage lately. Last year we had Wilson Yip’s swing at remaking A Chinese Ghost Story and Tsui Hark’s second go at King Hu’s classic Dragon Inn. To be fair, Tsui’s Flying Swords of Dragon Gate ended up as more a sequel to New Dragon Gate Inn than a remake, and it was considerably more fun than I was expecting — I’ll write it up when I get … (read more)

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Comics, Film and Anime at the Australian Cinémathèque, GoMA (QLD)

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Deni

So, you know how I was saying there was going to be nothing to go see after the whole JFF, BIFF, GCFF Queensland film frenzy was over? Well, I was wrong, because from the 6th of January (that’s tomorrow, people!) the Australian Cinémathèque at the Gallery of Modern Art is starting a new programme – Drawn to Screen: Graphic Novels, Comics and Serials.

I’ll refrain from making too much fangirly noise but omg SO COOL. There’s going to be … (read more)

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Arrietty (2010)

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Posted on December 22, 2011 by Deni

Arrietty, the most recent release from Studio Ghibli, is released in cinemas nation-wide on the 12th of Jan, 2012.

Recently, Studio Ghibli seems to have turned to more non-Japanese inspiration for their particular and delightful brand of animated features – Howl’s Moving Castle was based on books by British author Diana Wynne Jones and Tales from Earthsea was of course drawn from the series by American author Ursula Le Guin. In both cases, Ghibli saw in these stories something that … (read more)

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KCO’s final film for 2011: ‘He’s on Duty’ (Sydney)

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Justin

Our friends at the Korean Cultural Office in Sydney (who ran this year’s fantastic KOFFIA festival) are showing their final film tomorrow (Thursday 22nd) evening in this year’s Cinema On The Park programme. It’s open to the public and free, so if you have the evening free, why not go along and check it out?

The film being played is 2010’s He’s On Duty, from director Yook Sang-hyo (Hi, Dharma 2, Iron Palm), a light-hearted comedy … (read more)

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3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)

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Posted on December 19, 2011 by Elizabeth Kerr

(Ed: we don’t normally prepend a disclaimer to a review, but we just thought we’d warn you: Liz is pretty frank in this piece, and you should expect explicit discussion of, well, very explicit themes and the occasional spoiler. You are reading about a film titled ‘3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy’, after all!)… (read more)

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Free tickets to ‘Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D’ (closed)

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Justin

(Update — I’m all out. Thanks everyone!)

Thanks once again to Icon, I have five double passes to give away to Tsui Hark’s new wuxia/swordplay film Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D, which (as I mentioned yesterday) opens this week across Australia. Now’s your chance to get in to see Jet Li do his stuff for nothing!… (read more)

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This week: ‘Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D’ in cinemas

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Justin

OK, so the English-language title is a bit of a mouthful. Perhaps it’s inevitable, when we’re on the second remake; director Tsui Hark’s already taken a tilt at this story once, with 1992’s star-studded New Dragon Gate Inn. The original, King Hu’s Dragon Inn (1967) is a classic from a director whose influence on wuxia film is immense — we’re still seeing echoes from his films from the ’60s today.

Anyway, it’s a new Tsui Hark wuxia/swordplay film, and … (read more)

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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Collection One (1985)

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Posted on November 23, 2011 by Tom
A little while ago I reviewed Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team for this very site. In that review, I expressed my concern that jumping into the Gundam franchise in the wrong way was likely to drive someone into a Lovecraftian madness.
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