Kaiju Shakedown

November 13, 2015

Not coming to a high-definition format near you: a critic's choice of the amazing films by Japanese auteurs that have surfaced on streaming

October 28, 2015

Things that go splat in the night: a survey of the spooky, spurting, uncontainable genre perfected by the Shaw Brothers

October 15, 2015

West of Hollywood: a survey of the surging power of China and Korea's film business, Japan's stagnation, and everything in between

September 15, 2015

Copping to it: in praise of the Hong Kong actor who's spent the last 31 years almost exclusively playing policemen

September 1, 2015

Double your money: a (one-part) history of splitting up movies for fun and profit

August 11, 2015

Patriotic duty: Korean blockbuster director Choi Dong Hoon brings forth a melodrama hidden in an espionage thriller's clothing

July 31, 2015

Sound and fury: the Tamil director tackled the horrors of terrorism and sectarian violence with large-scale musicals

July 27, 2015

The assassins: Wong Jing’s lurid trio of films feature take-no-prisoners heroines who leave bodies in their wake (and expose their own)

July 14, 2015

It’s the bomb: Kazuhiko Hasegawa's atomic-powered classic of intergenerational warfare is a feverish cautionary tale

July 7, 2015

Premature burial: the sad fate of hundreds of fierce, supernatural action films from the Eighties and Nineties is even more shocking than the movies