Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2022 Film Reviews
The Decaying (2017)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Apart from the ending, and a few issues with the script here and there, “The Decaying” stands shoulder to shoulder with the works of the people mentioned in the prologue, in another testament to the prowess of the country’s cinema in the particular genre.
Enemy (2013)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Enemy offers a really interesting premise, poorly-staged but well-acted, and is provocative in its failures.
Face of the Frog (1959)
Luiz Santiago @ [Portuguese]
Good Men, Good Women (1995)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Good Men, Good Women” concludes with a resonant chord, echoing Taiwan’s historical reckoning through Ching Liang’s personal odyssey. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s deft direction and the stellar performances encapsulate the nation’s turbulent past, in another excellent, multi-leveled work by the Taiwanese auteur.
Green Street (1960)
Luiz Santiago @ [Portuguese]
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Despite some issues here and there, “House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths” emerges as a very easy to watch docuseries that manages to shed light to a shocking case and to place the whole thing into a wider sociopolitical frame.
Moneyboys (2021)
Luiz Santiago @ [Portuguese]
The Sandwich Man (1983)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: The three filmmakers induce their films with irony, humor and drama in order to present their comments, occasionally through metaphor, while still entertaining their audiences. At the same time, the blights of urbanization and westernization (and Japanisation) as much as the rather bleak financial circumstances the country experienced at the time, along with the lack of technological progress, are highlighted quite eloquently, on par with the general style of Taiwan New Cinema, which focused on the realistic depiction of the lives of common people.
Star Wars (1977)
The Weekend Murders (1970)
Luiz Santiago @ [Portuguese]
