Ho Lin
-
Capsule reviews of this year’s Academy award nominees in live-action short films: Sing (Hungary, Dir. Kristof Deák): A beatific children’s choir opens “Sing” with the kind of positive message that’s the…
-
La La Land (2016, Dir. Damien Chazelle): “There’s something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don’t come true – that to me is what’s…
-
Once a Thief (1965, Dir. Ralph Nelson): The opening of Once a Thief is a literal hoot and a holler that catapults us back to San Francisco of the mid-sixties. Within…
-
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, Dir. James Gunn): We know the template: likeable heroes and hiss-able villains, everything we hold dear in peril, destructive forces housed in day-glo energy balls,…
-
Snowpiercer (2013, Dir. Bong Joon-ho): A unique point of view in a big summer movie is hard to come by. That’s not to say that summer movies are devoid of…
-
Kill Zone (2005, Dir. Wilson Yip): Welcome to the New Wave of Hong Kong police thrillers — technically polished, solidly acted, visceral and brainy. So why does it feel like…
-
The American (2010, Dir. Anton Corbijn): I’m not very good with machines. — George Clooney, The American The American promises to be an escape from the machinations of the typical…
-
"Inception" marries thriller mechanics with dream logic, resulting in Christopher Nolan's most ambitious and most prosaic movie yet.
-
Cargo (2009, Dir. Ivan Engler & Ralph Etter) Purportedly Switzerland’s first science fiction filmand made on a shoestring budget, Cargo is certainly an impressive technical effort (some of of the…
-
Quantum of Solace (2008, Dir. Marc Forster): M: Bond, we need you back. Bond: I never left. A car chase. Fractured bursts of machine guns. Head-on collisions barely averted. A…