A recently deceased teen has to learn how to commit hauntings or else disappear from reality in Dead Talents Society. The Rookie (Gingle Wang) is a teenage ghost who moves unseen through the afterlife with her friend Camilla (Pai Ching-I). However, the rookie soon discovers that she is in danger of being forgotten and disappearing […]
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A homophobic police detective finds himself “ghost married” to a gay man who died in a hit-and-run in Marry My Dead Body. Wu Ming-Han (Greg Han Hsu) is a homophobic police detective working with his partner Lin Tzu-Ching (Gingle Wang) to bring down drug lord Lin Hsiao-Yuan (Chen-Nan Tsai). While chasing a suspect, Wu picks
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A 12-year-old Malaysian girl undergoes immense changes after hitting puberty in Tiger Stripes. Zaffan (Zafreen Zairizal) is a student at a Muslim all-girls school in Malaysia, who often ends up breaking the rules when hanging out with her friends Farah (Deena Ezral) and Mariam (Piqa). When Zaffan has her period one night, the resulting changes
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A viral pandemic turns people into violent and depraved maniacs in The Sadness. In Taiwan, there is concern over the spread of the Alvin virus, which sports similar characteristics to rabies, however, the government excuses it as being no more serious than the flu. Jim (Berant Zhu) and Kat (Regina Lei) are a couple who get
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Professional gamers play for the title of best Street Fighter player in the world in Living the Game. Players from around the world participate in tournaments to determine who is the best, with the winners receiving large cash prizes and admiration from the gaming community. Japan’s Daigo “The Beast” Umehara is considered to be the best
Two 17th century Jesuit priests find their faith tested as they search for their mentor in Japan in Silence. Jesuit priest Alessandro Valignano (Ciarán Hinds) receives word that the long lost missionary Cristóvão Ferreira (Liam Neeson) has apostatized his faith after being tortured by the anti-Christian Japanese inquisitor Inoue Masashige (Issey Ogata). Ferreira’s pupils Father Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew
An injured frontiersman left for dead seeks revenge on the man who killed his son in The Revenant. Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an experienced hunter and part of a group of fur trappers lead by Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson). Glass is critically injured in a bear attack and Henry instructs John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), Bridger (Will Poulter), and
The history behind one of the most popular Chinese-American dishes is explored in The Search for General Tso. The sweet and spicy dish “General Tso’s Chicken” has become one of the most popular items on Chinese take-out menus all across North America. However, the question has to be asked “Who was General Tso and why
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French auteur Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional) returns with the sci-fi/action film Lucy. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is a 25 year old American woman, who finds herself forced to deliver a case of an experimental drug called CPH4 to Taiwanese gangster Mr. Jang (Choi Min-sik). Lucy finds herself captured and forced to smuggle the drug, which
Life of Pi is the new film by director Ang Lee and is about an Indian boy named Pi, who is stranded in a lifeboat after a ship sinks, with his only company being a Bengal tiger. The film is a very spiritual and mystical film and religion plays a very big role in the
