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Jimmy in Saigon

By Kent Hill | May 2025

As compelling a portrait of a family as Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans, Peter McDowell’s Jimmy in Saigon is the story within…

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As compelling a portrait of a family as Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans, Peter McDowell’s Jimmy in Saigon is the story within the story of a...

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A gifted singer finds herself in the pitfalls of instant fame in Mai Thu Huyen's dramatic tale, A Fragile Flower. Thach Thao (Maya) is a beautiful young...

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The most beloved Canon films have an ingenuity and charm that overcomes budgetary restraints. Whether it's spectacular stunts or a sense of danger that the...

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Vietnamese filmmaker Hà Lệ Diễm's debut feature, Children of the Mist, is a documentary about the tradition of "bride kidnapping" practiced by the...

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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! It's only a matter of time. That's the sinking feeling I got watching Alastair Evans' environmental documentary, A...

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NEW TO AMAZON PRIME! Based on the Vietnamese literary classic, The Tale of Kiều by poet Nguyễn Du, director Mai Thu Huyen and writer Phi Tien Son...

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Martin Campbell's The Protégé stars Maggie Q, who, in turn, is the first Southeast Asian to star in a big-budget Hollywood action movie. But the reason...

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Tran Thanh and Ngoc Dang Vu's action-comedy Bố Già (Dad, I'm Sorry) flies by fast and furiously, and it's about… you guessed it… family (pun...

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Every culture in the world has one thing in common, and it’s the way they abuse and objectify its women. In Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife, attention is...

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At first glance, it’s easy to take 1973’s Blackenstein as a vast improvement over Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Did Shelley’s story include muscle...

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