My Take: Only God Forgives (2013) — by a.wei on

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Only God Forgives demands a lot of its audience -- patience, attention, acceptance -- but never seems to return anything for such o...

My Take: Orange is the New Black (2013) — by a.wei on

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I’m not one for binge watching. I can usually handle two, maybe three episodes of a show before I grow tired, bored, or annoyed of it. So...

My Take: Pacific Rim (2013) — by a.wei on

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I’m sick of summer blockbusters treating its audience as mindless drones, relegating each multi-million dollar picture to greater and gr...

My Take: Upstream Color (2013) — by a.wei on

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To summarize the plot of Upstream Color would be like eating soup with a fork -- it’s far too abstract, too elliptical, too paradoxical t...

My Take: World War Z (2013) — by a.wei on

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Given its unbelievably troubled production -- numerous screenwriters were hired for rewrites, massive shoots were scrapped subsequent t...

My Take: Behind the Candelabra (2013) — by a.wei on

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Recently, Steven Soderbergh spoke -- or maybe ranted would be more appropriate -- at the San Francisco International Film Festival reg...