Guess this is my top ten of 2025 (in order I watched them): 1. Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- 2. Black Bag 3. The Phoenician Scheme 4. Blue Moon 5. What Does that Nature Say to You 6. The Mastermind 7. Mirrors No.3 8. Magellan 9. It Was Just an Accident 10. One Battle After Another

Agree with the sentiments here but there's absolutely nothing wrong with a language being informal and colloquial. We need to stop being dismissive of vernacular.

despite the reputation of this episode, the director of it (Akio Jissoji) repeatedly insisted it was not an offensive portrayal but “rather, the theme which we worked on was what to do to prevent there being more bomb victims.” the writer agreed with Jissoji but it’s up to you how you feel about it

Adding almost dropping Sylvia Chang to Jackie Chan's list of crimes.

look at this sphinx just chilling in the sun

What's with the off-model Sally in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown?

Checking in on the oomfs these holidays

Continuing to translate new subtitles for the Golden Princess catalogue until I finally explode.

Johnnie To kind of denies the hotly anticipated Japanese co-production starring Tony Leung. He says he never said he was working with Tony and it was all the media, but he would like to work with him again. There's no screenplay and even filming in Japan isn't a done deal. 2/5

Johnnie To took questions from the press at the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival on Saturday: He's intent on finishing the movie starring Anson Lo he's only shot ten days so far in the last three years. He's been procrastinating, like an old man feeding birds. 1/5

Johnnie To took questions from the press at the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival on Saturday: He's intent on finishing the movie starring Anson Lo he's only shot ten days so far in the last three years. He's been procrastinating, like an old man feeding birds. 1/5

From As1 Entertainment's interview with Sammo Hung a few days ago: "I'm always saying let's make a movie... Nobody gives me the time of day! This isn't something you can force and just really wanting it is useless. Pursuing it is the right thing to do, though."

Just listened to a podcast on a Hong Kong movie and what is arguably its most iconic moment for Chinese-language audiences doesn't even get a mention. Interested in examples of this, where international audiences latch onto something completely different from domestic ones.

Just listened to a podcast on a Hong Kong movie and what is arguably its most iconic moment for Chinese-language audiences doesn't even get a mention. Interested in examples of this, where international audiences latch onto something completely different from domestic ones.

Guy pops a balloon between Hou Hsiao-hsien's legs with a blowgun blindfolded on Taiwanese variety show The Fantastic Brothers. Hou was promoting his 1997 album 'Sun'.

I wrote about Bondi for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Guy pops a balloon between Hou Hsiao-hsien's legs with a blowgun blindfolded on Taiwanese variety show The Fantastic Brothers. Hou was promoting his 1997 album 'Sun'.

An 82-year-old George Cuckor trying to pronounce 'Tsui Hark' (written as the Mandarin 'Xu Ke' on the card) before presenting Tsui with Best Director for All the Wrong Clues at the 18th Golden Horse Awards.

An 82-year-old George Cuckor trying to pronounce 'Tsui Hark' (written as the Mandarin 'Xu Ke' on the card) before presenting Tsui with Best Director for All the Wrong Clues at the 18th Golden Horse Awards.

Ella McCay made me feel I was in a simulation the whole time being watched by some unknown force as I experienced their simulacrum. The movie Marge and Lisa write together in a Simpsons ep where they see a bad movie about an idealistic young woman and think they can do better.

Keeping the theatrical experience alive by being the only person at Ella McCay at peak old people moviegoing hours.

I honestly thought they wouldn't find Jimmy Lai guilty because that would be the most keeping up appearances thing to do. The institutions that make Hong Kong Hong Kong (Basic Law, One Country Two Systems, etc.) were always an overly elegant solution to an impossible situation. 1/

I produced 100+ home video releases distributed by @kinolorber.com in 2025 - here are some of my favorites:

When Harry Met Sally was released in Hong Kong under the Chinese title '90s A Man and a Woman, referencing the Claude Lelouch film.

I honestly thought they wouldn't find Jimmy Lai guilty because that would be the most keeping up appearances thing to do. The institutions that make Hong Kong Hong Kong (Basic Law, One Country Two Systems, etc.) were always an overly elegant solution to an impossible situation. 1/

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial. In full: buff.ly/x1KrXiO

BREAKING: Hong Kong court convicts Jimmy Lai, founder of former pro-democracy newspaper, in landmark national security trial.

RIP Japanese director and somtimes actor Masato Harada. He gave us GUNHED, Bounce Ko Gals, lots more. He was 76. www.asahi.com/articles/AST...

As much as I know this to be true, this is still gonna suck for theatrical distribution all around the world, especially in smaller countries reliant on major studio distribution.

Call me naive but I think the cinemagoing experience will never die

Not on the Blu-ray forums anymore but people link me posts whenever they're badmouthing me. A recent post (that isn't blindly negative) questions the necessity of translating slang, malapropisms, and accents, to which I say yes, they should be. What's the point, otherwise?

Honored to make my debut for Vinegar Syndrome/OCN Distribution, where I contributed a booklet essay about Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji's beautiful STONEWALLING to @kimstim.bsky.social's Blu-ray release of the whole trilogy! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

I did a new set of subtitles for Arrow's just announced release of Peking Opera Blues coming next year. This one required taking certain creative risks to properly match the film's tone and energy (so I guess we'll see if that pays off).

It's Witchfinder Snoopy Day

Isabelle Huppert, big Left-Handed Girl fan.

A major fire engulfing multiple residential buildings in Tai Po has killed at least four people, including a firefighter, and injured three others, according to the Fire Services Department (FSD). In full: buff.ly/OT7r4eY

Isabelle Huppert, big Left-Handed Girl fan.

I completely revised the subtitles I did a thousand years ago for the Hong Kong cut (and maybe something else) for this release. Hopefully I can do this for any other potential upgrades/re-releases down the track.

Sakuran and Helter Skelter Blu-rays from 88 Films next year? Ninagawa gang rise up!

Some guy randomly found the original handwritten screenplay for Ann Hui's Boat People. Writer Chiu Kang-chien's original Chinese title was literally 'Boat People', but this was changed to 'Seeking Refuge to the Angry Sea' at the suggestion of wuxia novelist Jin Yong.

Been watching a lot of ER this past year, since it became one of our public broadcaster's go-to slot fillers, and realising just how much it influenced my childhood idea of what being a grown-up would be like.

Chinese media really going to town on Wong Kar-wai over this now. Turns out he also said some bad things about the government and their handling of Covid, whoops! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Had the immense honor of interviewing the one and only Sylvia Chang about her fantastic performance in Huang Xi’s DAUGHTER’S DAUGHTER and her singular career at large, for Metrograph. metrograph.com/sylvia-chang...

Bride of Re-Animator illustration from Hobby Japan EX, Winter 1991.

Tatsuya Nakadai riding a demon motorcycle to death in The Wicked City. What a legend.

Every time the Criterion Closet has a British or European guest, I always think, 'Do they even have a region A player?'

More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero Never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both releases have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.

More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.

Hong Kong movies used to be so dangerous even Wong Kar-wai ones could kill you.