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Mainstream Chick’s Quick Takes: The Great Wall; A Cure for Wellness

February 17, 2017 0 Comments

This is a really great week to catch up on one (or more) of those Oscar-nominated movies that are still in theaters or available on DVD or VOD. Why? Because,…

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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015

April 17, 2015 0 Comments

Film festivals are a lot of fun, but kind of exhausting, too. I headed to Durham, NC last weekend for the Full Frame Festival, one of the premier documentary festivals…

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

July 26, 2012 0 Comments

Without doubt Ai Weiwei is the most famous Chinese artist on the planet. His art is thought provoking, but his life, even more so. The documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry…

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The Karate Kid

July 6, 2010 1 Comments

The Karate Kid is best viewed through the eyes of today’s youth, as opposed to the eyes of aging fans (like me) of the original. I have a soft spot…

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When Ruo Ma was Seventeen

August 28, 2009 0 Comments

This sweet coming of age story is almost worth seeing just for the scenery alone. Shot in southern China’s Yunnan province, When Ruo Ma was Seventeen uses the beautiful landscape…

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Perhaps Love 如果·愛

June 27, 2009 0 Comments

If you're looking for a good musical romance in Chinese, Perhaps Love is your movie. It stars Asian heart throb Takeshi Kaneshiro and Superstar singer Jacky Cheung in a love…

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The Road Home 我的父亲母亲 (1989)

June 19, 2009 1 Comments

"The Road Home" is a fantastic chick flick, a 3 hankie love story set in a small village in north China sometime during the Cultural Revolution though you'd never know…

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Ikiru 生きる & Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 千里走单骑

June 8, 2009 1 Comments

I rented two films this week that coincidentally both center on older men and fractured relationships with their grown sons. Why do so many men and their fathers have such…