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A Company Man: Lifetime Employment 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Contract killing is one of the few recession-proof industries. Given the illusive nature of our economic recovery, it probably won’t be long before the administration starts doing photo ops with the ...
Abigail Harm: A Shy, Quiet Brand of Urban Fantasy 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Visitors come to New York from nearly everywhere, perhaps even including the fairy realm, or some such place. One mousy New Yorker will open her home and perhaps her heart to a decidedly foreign visi...
Better Late Than Never: The Wolverine vs. the Yakuza 25 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
China recently surpassed Japan to become the world’s second largest film market. Yes, China is number two with a bullet, but Japan is hardly chopped liver. As an extra added benefit, studios do not ...
Silk: It Goes Nicely with the Wigs 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Rumpole never went for Queens Council. He did not need the letters QC after his name to take on the clients that interested him. However, for mere mortal barristers, it makes a world of difference f...
MWFF’13: Mai Ratima 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
They live by night, but it is far from romantic. They are the marginalized human debris that washes up on Seoul’s mean streets. A runaway Thai mail order bride and a would-be street criminal will fin...
Una Noche: Cuba, Unvarnished 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
There are two Cuba’s: one for well-heeled Euro tourists, and one for Cubans. When the two worlds mix, it often means trouble for the locals. One Cuban teen understands that only too well. Indeed, h...
Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Ip Man has become a transcendent hero. All the films and stories about him are true, even when they contradict each other, because we need his example of heroic humility. Ip was a master of the sout...
Floating Island: From the Harbor to the Boardroom 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Bo Wah Chuen’s chronicle is somewhat like the flipside of a James Clavell novel. The adopted son of “Tanka” boat people, Bo would become the first Chinese Taipan of the British Imperial East India C...
Savannah: The Sort of True Tall Tale of Ward Allen 19 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Ward Allen was like a grown-up version of Huck Finn. The heir to one of Savannah’s largest plantations, Allen willingly renounced a life of privilege for a wild and woolly existence supplying fresh g...
Claude Miller’s Therese 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Thérèse Desqueyroux is not much of a home-maker. She has servants for that sort of thing. She is hardly mother of the year either. She keeps up appearances as a dutiful wife, but she has no love an...
