“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow” Hamlet mused towards the end of Shakespeare's titular play, accepting that it is only God who controls...
Author - JC Cansdale-Cook
A series of (fortunate) events led this writer-of-sorts to Battle Royale and he's never looked back since. A lover of Japanese cinema in all its guises, JC has developed a fondness for emerging, underrepresented cinemas as well as a growing love affair with the cinema of Taiwan. He's also a sucker for cinematography.
Putting a camera in the hands of people whose own medium is not film, often leads to interesting final products, a passage down a road less travelled, an...
By no stretch of the imagination China has been, and arguably still is, the world's factory; the manufacturing womb of a planet where consumption is the...
About the Film And so begins the unscripted rabbit-hole exploration of female adolescence that is “Infinite Foundation”, Akira Osaki's answer to a saturated...
Filled to the rafters with sacks of abandoned materials and supplies like unfinished maze walls, colourful with some sense of order, the warehouse boasts a...
About the Film The profound magic of cinema does not necessarily come from technical brilliance or in conveying some deeper message; style, production, mood...
The profound magic of cinema does not necessarily come from technical brilliance or in conveying some deeper message; style, production, mood, context, and at...
“If you want to be in the gig, choose one: First, you get beaten up by me or you destroy the bass…” threatens Marutake High's Oba, the mohawked antagonist who...
Sometimes the best fever dreams are the ones that leave you hanging in disbelief, dangling off a precipice as one hand tries to clamber to something firm and...
For almost four decades, Taiwan existed under a period of martial law colloquially dubbed the White Terror; between 1949 and 1987 communism and opposition to...