REVIEW: Jungle Cruise (2021)
As one ride ends, another begins. It might be the cousin wanting to line up for the Mad Tea Party after disembarking Splash Mountain. Or, in this case, it might be Disney handing its flagship action-adventure attraction-based baton from Pirates of the Caribbean to Jungle…
TV REVIEW: Kingdom – Ashin of the North (2021)
It’s not only the undead populating Kingdom’s Joseon who have a craving for blood and guts. For two seasons now, members of the Haewon Cho clan have proven themselves to be the scarier ghouls — also drawn to carnage, but never thoughtlessly or rampantly. Just…
REVIEW: Old (2021)
A mind-twister, indeed, when strange things of the M. Night Shyamalan kind also exist beyond Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Entranced and thus inspired by the premise of the graphic novel Sandcastle written by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and drawn by Frederick Peeters, Old sees the filmmaker travel to…
REVIEW: Kandisha (2021)
It was a shock to the system to realise how, before the yet-set rollout of their novel and anticipated The Deep House, French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury have another film for horror fans — Kandisha. Perhaps with the extreme brains behind the…
REVIEW: The 8th Night (2021)
It’s The Exorcist, yet a Buddhist monk is in place of a Catholic priest. A Black Eye of anxiety and a Red Eye of anger are collectively the engineer of global-scale chaos this time, not Pazuzu. One film is adapted from a best-selling novel, the…
INTERVIEW: ‘Bố Già’ Lead Actor and American Distributor
Bố might be già, but he’s in his prime at the box office. In the U.S., the made-in-Vietnam comedy-drama Bố Già (lit. “Old Dad,” but it’s Dad, I’m Sorry in international markets) is a hit, breaching the $1 million mark on June 15. JumpCut Online…
TRIBECA INTERVIEW: ‘Kata’ Director James Latimer
Appearance can only tell a fraction of the story, and it’s a notion wholly applicable to Kata, a martial arts short from Japan-based filmmaker James Latimer currently showing at Tribeca in the “Go Big” programme. The seven-minute work is, like Bart Layton’s docudrama American Animals,…
REVIEW: Wish Dragon (2021)
You will hear a little voice going “it’s Genie, but now he’s Long” throughout Wish Dragon, the second of three Sony Pictures Animation’s works with rights reported to have been bought by Netflix during the pandemic (the others are The Mitchells vs. The Machines and…
REVIEW: Bố Già (2021)
“NOISY household,” “MESSY family,” “CRAPPY neighborhood” — these are the title cards in the latest trailer for Bố Già (Dad, I’m Sorry, which in Vietnamese would look more like “Ba, Con Xin Lỗi”), and they seem to promise an unruly time. Think Happy Madison picture,…
INTERVIEW: ‘Servant’ Costume Designer Caroline Duncan
They can be a lot to take in — the twists and turns, ordinary and otherwise, that creators Tony Basgallop and M. Night Shyamalan have planted in the Apple TV+ psychological horror show Servant, now in its second season and is focusing on Dorothy (Lauren…
INTERVIEW: ‘Servant’ Production Designer Naaman Marshall
How’s this for a M. Night Shyamalan twist: The Philadelphia in Servant is not exactly Philadelphia. In the Apple TV+ series from Tony Basgallop and Shyamalan himself, the world is reduced to the four walls and four floors of the brownstone where the Turners (Lauren…
INTERVIEW Part 2: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Writers & Director
JumpCut’s chat with the creators of Raya and the Last Dragon on its upcoming home-media release continues, now with director Don Hall and writers Qui Nguyen & Adele Lim. Previously we had producer Osnat Shurer, head of story Fawn Veerasunthorn and the other main director…
INTERVIEW Part 1: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ – Head of Story, Producer & Director
As equally an adventure as reuniting the pieces of the Dragon Gem in Raya and the Last Dragon was the making of said adventure. For the upcoming home media release of Walt Disney Animation’s latest, its first production with the Southeast Asia region as a…
