Commencing Spank The Monkey’s two-part examination of Taiwanese martial arts cinema, past and present.
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A Girl At My Door
Emma Street finds that not everything is as it seems in July Jung’s tale of corruption and child abuse in a seaside community.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
A year after Miyazaki’s swansong, the final bow of his Studio Ghibli partner Isao Takahata. A review by Indy Datta.
It Only Happens In The Movies?
Spank The Monkey previews the Japan Foundation’s 2015 touring film programme, in UK cinemas from January 30th to March 26th.
Print the Legend
Indy Datta reviews The Grandmaster, which hits British cinemas today.
Dispatches from the LFF: The Second Review Round-Up
Laura Morgan and Ron Swanson delve further into the London Film Festival’s schedule and report on what they find…
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Up in the air, and down
Josephine Grahl revisits Satiyajit Ray’s favourite of his own films, Charulata
#TFEFF14
Spank The Monkey previews the Terracotta Far East Film Festival, taking place in London from May 23rd to June 1st 2014.
Mysterious Object at Noon
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s underseen debut feature screened last week at the ICA. Keifer Taylor reflects on the film and Weerasethakul’s subsequent career.
The Raid 2
We are, of course much too classy to go with the “Electric Boogaloo” joke for the standfirst. A review by Danni Glover, who is blameless in respect of the foregoing.
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