Similar to catching TIFF films this year, I’m quite keen to watch some Reel Asian International Film Festival screenings during the festival running November 8-13 in Toronto and November 18-19 in Richmond Hill. The Richmond Hill screenings are just a subset of the Toronto ones and not the films that caught my attention so [...]
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Each year in Vancouver I casually consider volunteering for VAFF, Vancouver Asian Film Festival but quickly dismiss the notion. Do I really want to work for my free movie? Rub shoulders? Maybe next year…. Although I won’t be in Vancouver this November (3-6), nonetheless I am curious about the line-up for their 15th anniversary. [...] I read the 2005 Lisa See novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan last year partly because the novel was apparently “good enough” to be adapted to screenplay and it was my discovery of a very active writer, See, of Chinese(-American) stories. I have looked forward to the release of this movie starring Li Bing Bing, [...] Are there many people out there like me whose first exposure to Thor was because one of the young characters of Adventures in Babysitting insisted on wearing a horned helmet and carry the hammer? The idea of Thor being made into a movie seemed laughable to me but little did I know that Marvel [...] |
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