©Courtesy of the NYAFF Including humor between mismatched protagonists can often make their battle to survive emotionally-charged, physically demanding obstacles easier in a film. The new Japanese martial arts-driven feature, Baby Assassins: Nice Days, is one such intriguing example. The crime movie intertwines alluring slacker comedy with extreme action beats. The feature serves as the…
The New York Asian Film Festival is back with a “17-day gamma blast of Asia’s most electrifying voices and visions!” Amongst this cinematic trip around the South East, there’s a film from the Philippines that strikes for its willingness to persuade audiences to dismantle prejudices on certain professions and age groups. Granny Prostitutes (titled Lola Magdalena…
Photo by 20th Century Studios/Marvel Stud/Courtesy of 20th Century Studio – © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL. Let’s get straight to the point: the entrance of the ‘Merc with a Mouth’ in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – which means Disney, let’s not forget it – didn’t change the character. At…
NYAFF is now in its 23rd edition, running from July 12th until the 28th. Several films have explored the world of the elderly, such as Granny Prostitutes, but there’s another movie that takes a more playful twist on third age. 90 Years Old – So What? is based on the best-selling essay book that sold over…
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts There is less parental supervision in this film than you see in an average John Hughes movie. Perhaps as a result, these teens hardly spend any time working or studying during their summer break—maybe a little, but not a lot. However, they are not idle slackers. In fact, they keep quite…
Courtesy of © 2024 Infocusasia Co., Ltd. The New York Asian Film Festival 2024 is hosting the World Premiere of Operation Undead, a zombie-movie from Thailand that offers a new and very interesting take on the genre. Set during World War II, the story talks about a group of soldiers dislocated in a beautiful and…
©Courtesy of New York Asian Film Festival Snow in Midsummer, a film by Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun, is among the works being screened at the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival. It had earlier premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won the award for best Chinese-language film in the Young Cinema Competition…
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts In Takeshi Kitano’s gangster movies, a lot of fingers get chopped. For this samurai historical epic, he steps up to head-chopping. To be fair, Kitano’s yakuza probably lopped off a few heads of their own, but during Japan’s Sengoku Era, collecting severed heads was the preferred method of proving the death…
@Courtesy of Peacock Ever since its first real U.S. box office success Universal Soldier, back in 1992, with Roland Emmerich it has always been take it or leave it. His idea of suave, over-the-top, ultra-spectacular mise-en-scène has decreed his greatest successes like Independence Day or 2012. You got the idea, right? A “trademark” that the…
I’ll remember it all. Though I won’t recall it. The words echo in the theater and a man’s androgynous face makes expressive grimaces on a large screen. In front of it, the same man, long haired with sideboards, moves down in fright, like he’s detaching himself. Just before, a police squad has arrived at a house…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Twisters: Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains…
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