A few years ago I stumbled upon a CD by a Chinese post-punk band named New Pants. I bought it on a whim and absolutely loved its blend of ...

An Artist  is a series of posts profiling contemporary artists whose work I find interesting. I am a big fan of contemporary art, particul...

P.K.14 is a Nanjing-formed and Beijing-based post-punk rock band. Formed back in 1997, they have become a well-respected fixture in China...

In December 1941 a group of Chinese railroad workers, led by the station porter Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan) engage in carefully staged raids of...

One of the most common responses I have seen to Disney's new film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , apart from the ones that would involv...

Always push your viewing habits. I am not demanding that you do so constantly, but always make sure you push a little on your comfort zone...

The following synopsis is going to severely under-sell Kaili Blues , but here goes: Chen (Yongzhong Chen) is a reformed ex-con living in C...

Three rivals stand for election. Politics are being discussed in corridors and washrooms. Dirty tricks are being planned, and campaign str...

Let's say you had 2,000 minutes that you wanted to spend watching movies. That breaks down to 33 hours and 20 minutes, so you could st...

He Ping, the Chinese director best known for his international arthouse hit Red Firecracker Green Firecracker , is also the director of an...

In the distant past, monsters walk the Earth but have been banished to faraway mountain regions separate from humanity. A runaway monster ...

Daming (Pu Cunxin) is an up-and-coming executive living in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. When he gets the mistaken impression tha...

2016 is upon us, and that means a whole new year's worth of feature films coming out. I figured I would have a look ahead and see what i...

Baifa Monu Zhuan , variously translated as Biography of the White-Haired Succuba or Romance of the White-Haired Maiden , is a serialised C...

The Avenger (Zhang Fengyi) is a wandering swordsman suffering from a deep post-traumatic malaise. He arrives in a rural valley in western ...

Most people seem to have encountered Journey to the West in one form or another. Most Australians my age will have first encountered Wu Ch...

A debt-ridden boxer (Xia Yu) shoots a man dead in Hong Kong before fleeing to mainland China. A year later, a team of police officers have...

Princess Iron Fan is a Chinese animated film, produced and released in 1941. That makes it the oldest animated feature in the history of C...

Xiao Jia (Gigi Leung) is a Chinese university student living in 1981 Shanghai. Through a panicked moment of embarrassment she comes into p...

A police officer in a northern Chinese city is the sole survivor of a horrifying shoot-out that leaves both criminals and his fellow offic...