2021 Hong Kong comedy All U Need is Love is likely one of the earliest films in the world to make the COVID-19 the central focus of its story. The movie features a star-studded cast of Hong Kong actors and actresses, many of which reprise their best-known roles for the film. This is due to the fact that the movie was originally intended as a collaboration between ten major Hong Kong film companies to benefit a hard-hit domestic film industry. However, All U Need is Love is an insipid affair, which says more about the film industry in Hong Kong today than anything else Read More
Wuhan Wuhan, directed by Yung Chang, is a humanistic look at everyday residents and medical workers in Wuhan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The documentary begins shortly after the peak of cases in the city, and follows residents of Wuhan until the end of the city’s lockdown in April 2020 Read More
In Trance We Gaze, directed by Singing Chen, proves a nuanced, complex portrait of man’s relation to divinity in contemporary Taiwan. It accomplishes this by working on multiple registers, touching on the many forms that man’s relation to religious worship can take within traditional Taiwanese folk religion Read More
《環保少女:格蕾塔》是一部講述關於格蕾塔·桑伯格(Greta Thunberg)身為 2018 年氣候變遷罷課運動中心人物的紀錄片。時為高中生的桑伯格,抗議政府對於氣候變遷的態度冷漠,開始每個星期五的罷課。這個簡單的抗議行動,一開始只有她一個人,慢慢得到其他學生注意,最後,這個為氣候變遷罷課的運動成為全球性的運動。桑伯格的名聲因媒體炒作,成為全球性知名人物,也因此,聯合國邀請她參與了許多關於氣候變遷的會議。 Read More
Lianain Films’ four hour-long documentary “If We Burn” offers one of the most exhaustive retrospectives on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement Read More
2013 年出品的紀錄片《十二夜》是一部探討動物收容所的紀錄片,影片中有許多收容所過去發生的悲慘景象,可能是很多人從未聽說過但最具影響力的台灣倡議紀錄片之一。 Read More
Monster, Hirokazu Koreeda's latest, is the latest of the esteemed Japanese director’s humanistic takes on family. This time around, however, Koreeda zooms in on the issue of childhood bullying Read More
Get the Hell Out is an absurdist zombie comedy that starts out well enough Read More
The following animated shorts were shown at this year's Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei Read More
The second part of a two-part conversation on the critical success of Your Name Engraved Herein! Read More
SEQALU: Formosa 1867 has been widely discussed in Taiwan in past few days, following its premiere last week. As the title implies, the television drama is set in Taiwan in 1867. SEQALU is the latest historical drama offering from PTS Taiwan depicting Taiwanese history. This follows suit from last year’s Island Nation, another big-budget work that dramatized the political history of Taiwan’s democratic transition Read More
《逃出立法院》是一部荒謬絕倫的活屍搞笑片。此片開頭算是很好的,事實上電影一開始就有一個可能是整部片中最好笑且厚臉皮的笑話:「提醒您,觀影中如有一下症狀:眼乾、頭痛、想咬人、懷疑人生、懷疑自己已業障重。如有不適,請閉上眼睛。選錯電影只要忍耐 90 分鐘,不像選錯人您可能要忍四年」。 Read More