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...
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.
Solidarity in the face of privatisation and its hammer-blows against the international workforce flourishes under many banners, guises, and movements; a...
Harbouring inside this theatre of ruin – of crumbling memory, of withering age – reside the silent voices of a generation, of an industry teetering on the...
When it rains it pours. As ironic as it could possibly sound this is how to best explain the myriad of subtleties and nuances coursing through the debut...
No one enjoys being forced to get along with strangers, let alone come to terms with having to live with them. The foundation of a new family, much like a...
Within the hearts and minds of many non-Westernised peoples wages an eternal generational war; between the young and the old, the old and the new, groups...
Anybody who ever grew up in a small town far removed from the hegemonic influences of the big city will vouch for their bizarrely distinctive habits and...
Even in these modern times it is a rarity to come across female-driven films from beyond the Caucasus in places like Kazakhstan, let alone those helmed at the...
It takes a certain magic to lose an audience within the simplistic grandeur of a world almost far-removed from the rest of civilization; to educate in the ways...
These barren climes do not forgive – the cruelty in this domain speaks with a wisdom as old as the Achaen Era and just as ferocious. That life seems to cling...