When you take an International Cinema class, normally during the week on France, the instructor’s lesson is deeply fixated on the New Wave movement. The film following the lecture will be one of the masterpieces from those former movie critics turned filmmakers. And you can’t blame the instructor since it
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Stephen Chow was part of the ’90s wave of Hong Kong stars who compete with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Chow Yun-Fat for box office supremacy. He became a cult sensation in America with the arrival of Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle. Now another one of his earlier films
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Godzilla was a monumental film when it was released in America in 1956 since it showed that English language markets were open to Asian cinema outside of prestigious art house flicks. The success Toho obtained with their mutant monster movies inspired fellow Japanese studios and producers from other countries to
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Predator: Badlands (2025) First hunt. Last chance. There’s something quietly refreshing about what Dan Trachtenberg pulls off with Predator: Badlands. On paper, it’s assembled from familiar genre components — a rogue hero, a reluctant ally, a revenge-tinged journey through a hostile world — yet Trachtenberg reshapes those tropes into something