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Love Boat: Taiwan

By | May 2019

If you’re old like me, you probably went to summer camp as a teenager. You probably remember nights of hooking up, getting…

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If you’re old like me, you probably went to summer camp as a teenager. You probably remember nights of hooking up, getting drunk, or in my case Bible...

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I’ve seen Bi Gan’s epic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, three times already; primarily just to get this review correct. At each screening, I was...

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Ash is Purest White is a relatively simple story of Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her true love, Bin (Fan Liao). It is a simple story that’s stretched well over...

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Rules are meant to be broken and I suppose this is required for an art documentary. Leave the Bus Through The Broken Window is the story of filmmaker...

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YouTube star and actress on the rise Anna Akana (Ant-Man) has her first lead role starring in director Emily Ting's indie feature Go Back to China. The...

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Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless...

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John Maringouin’s latest film, Ghostbox Cowboy is a surreal, sarcastic pitch-black comedy about the Chinese tech boom and the misfortune of one “Ugly...

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A nice gimmick can add spice to an over told story, but you gotta rub in that spice to make a tasty meal. A Cool Fish had a nice gimmick, but the question...

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There’s a profound sadness I can’t help but feel for the subjects of Hao Wu’s documentary People’s Republic of Desire. Wu dives pretty deep in the...

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