Taiwan

Light of the Setting Sun

By Kent Hill | May 2025

There’s a certain documentary that doesn’t just reveal a family secret, it unspools it like a thread, slowly, delicately, until you realize…

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There’s a certain documentary that doesn’t just reveal a family secret, it unspools it like a thread, slowly, delicately, until you realize it’s...

In the Morning of La Petit Mort (Dong Wu Gan Shang De Qing Chen) image — In the Morning of La Petit Mort (Dong Wu Gan Shang De Qing Chen)
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NOW ON VOD! Different cultures tell their stories differently. Yu-Lin Wang's dramatic feature, In the Morning of La Petit Mort (Dong Wu Gan Shang De Qing...

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What do you get when you blend years of tradition with a mother-in-law from hell and throw in postpartum hormones? You get a nightmare and a pretty damn...

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Yaxing Lin's short, One More Bite, is a cautionary tale of self-image and bulimia. Jiuming (Zoe Zou) is a young woman standing on a scale, counting every...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Wi Ding Ho's Terrorizers is organized around a scene that's as lurid and sensationalistic as the film's...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Holy fucking shit. Brace yourselves. Rob Jabbaz’s brutal, breathless Taiwanese horror splatter fest The Sadness is...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Director/ writer KEFF proves a talent to watch with Taipei Suicide Story, a slow and meditative take on what, if...

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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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As of late, it seems the big studios have handed romance and romantic comedies over to streaming services. They’re just too much of a gamble, but at the...