The pairing of Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu (as two powerhouse actors of modern French cinema) speaks volumes for Potiche, chosen as the opening film for the Alliance Francaise 2011 French Film Festival because of its accessible leading pair as well as the endearing story. French cinema is all about love, life and loss magnified with much dramatic flair, and you [...]

Filed after ‘Schwarzenegger’ and ‘Stallone’, ‘Statham’ is now officially a genre of film in which bullets are a part of a balanced diet, explosions occur in slow motion and professional badasses go out of their way to break all of their own rules. The Mechanic, a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson flick of the same name, is the latest addition to Jason Statham’s action movie arsenal, and although it’s [...]

As Leon Ford’s mild-mannered Aussie superhero flick Griff the Invisible points out, it’s highly improbable that a masked vigilante by night is a charismatic playboy millionaire like Bruce Wayne by day. No, it takes a ‘special’ kind of person to profess to having superpowers and fight crime wearing a rubber suit. You know, someone who is… missing a few screws.  Not the sharpest tool in the shed. One banana short [...]

What do you do when your man checks out other women whenever you’re out with him? How do you respond to a guy who has romantic sessions – by himself – in the car after you turn out the light? Put him on a leash? Cut your losses and move on? No – you give him a hall pass. And if you’re not sure he knows what to do with [...]

Last year’s Up in the Air was about a guy who fired people for a living. We watched scene after uncomfortable scene of former employees reacting with shock, disbelief and indignation when they are bluntly told that their years of service and sacrifice have reached a premature end. Since the main character, played by charismatic star George Clooney, held all the power, there was [...]

Food is at the centre of a fugitive case in the South Korean mystery-drama The Recipe, making it a drawcard for foodies and crime buffs alike.

Interestingly, however, the focus of  Anna Lee’s debut film doesn’t lie with the manhunt itself. After mass-murderer Kim Jong-gu is executed, TV producer Choi Yu-Jin (Ryu Seung Ryong) discovers that the fugitive was apprehended while eating a bowl of sumptuous soup. Doenjang to be [...]

A family’s matriarch is often the one to hold everyone together; hardships and turmoil have surpassed them to make them stronger and protect the younger generations. A death in the family hits particularly hard, and this is what prolific director Brilliante Mendoza (Slingshot, Foster Child) touches on as the matriarch is thrown into disarray once more.

We are taught to dream as children, learning the possibilities of what is available to us through travel and exploration and wanting to satisfy curiosities. That feeling of yearning often transcends into adulthood, but fear of the unknown often holds (the majority of) us back. Elsewhere shows us what happens when someone unintentionally walks down that path; always a dreamer, never a believer.