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The MIYA Memo: Shell Girl (Wang Xia, 2024) and Female Special Police Officer (Zhang Zhen, 2022)
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The MIYA Memo: Shell Girl (Wang Xia, 2024) and Female Special Police Officer (Zhang Zhen, 2022)

21 Mar 2025 5 min read
2024 Festival Compilation
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2024 Festival Compilation

As I've done for the last couple of years, here is a collection of the reviews I wrote this year for InReview Online's coverage of various film festivals from around the world (Rotterdam, Cannes, the New York Asian Film Festival, Venice, Toronto, and the New York
09 Oct 2024 30 min read
The Wandering Earth II (Frant Gwo, 2023)
Frant Gwo

The Wandering Earth II (Frant Gwo, 2023)

Four years and many, many crises ago, The Wandering Earth became one of the biggest Chinese blockbusters of all-time. A sci-fi epic about family and sacrifice for the collective good, it effectively welded Hollywood-style disaster effects action to a PRC-friendly message and dominated that year’s Lunar New Year season.
23 Jan 2023 4 min read
Warriors of Future (Ng Yuen-fai, 2022)
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Ng Yuen-fai

Warriors of Future (Ng Yuen-fai, 2022)

02 Dec 2022 4 min read
The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo, 2019)
Frant Gwo

The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo, 2019)

The Wandering Earth is to the Hollywood effects-driven disaster film what Farewell, My Concubine was to the Hollywood epic historical costume drama: a statement that Chinese cinema can be just as big and empty as the biggest movie machines in the world. Based on a novel by Liu Cixin, the
27 Feb 2019 2 min read
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