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Back to the Wharf

By Bradley Gibson | January 2023

NOW ON VOD! Director Xiaofeng Li’s Back to the Wharf, written by Xin Yu, is a Chinese crime drama with details ripped from…

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NOW ON VOD! Director Xiaofeng Li's Back to the Wharf, written by Xin Yu, is a Chinese crime drama with details ripped from actual headlines. The son of a...

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The setting for The Old Town Girls, an industrial city, gives off a gray moroseness. It is the type of place young people want to leave as soon as they...

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Dr. Lamb chronicles a police investigation wherein Lam Gor-Yee (Simon Lam) is arrested after police gain hold of a series of sexually graphic photographs...

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A gifted artist finds a song worth singing in Richard Yichen Yang's short film, Tonight Will Be Fine. Lu (Jingxu Li) and Po (Xianli Song) are an...

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This year I have started to explore a more cultural take on my favorite genre by experiencing China's take on science fiction. Cixin Liu wrote a phenomenal...

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Stories of love and romance have been told thousands of times. Yet, we keep coming back to them because of that basic need we have as humans to love and be...

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NOW ON PBS! In late 2019, the coronavirus began infecting people, and rather quickly, it spread around the world and caused lockdowns in dozens of...

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Art has always reflected history, ideology, or emotion. It takes many forms and mutations, and the artist often has a vision in mind. The artistic impulse...

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Based on actual events, director Leon Lee's Unsilenced is a bird's eye look at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in full action when it feels threatened....

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TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! I sincerely wish I possessed the eloquence to accurately articulate the beauty, sorrow, and power that resonates within...

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