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In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
05 August 2025 4:59 AM | No CommentsSon Heung-min leaves Tottenham Hotspur having made 333 appearances for the club over 10 seasons.
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“A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
16 July 2025 12:42 PM | No CommentsTime travel is a well-worn trope, but there is a reason that the low-budget “A Samurai in Time” managed to win Best Film honors at the Japan Academy Film Prize.
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Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
29 June 2025 11:58 AM | No CommentsThe Japanese artist, both in physical presence and in spirit, seamlessly crossed over to the worlds of art, fashion, sports and even food.
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Paris 2024: Gymnastics – U.S. women victorious in “Redemption Tour”
29 June 2025 2:46 AM | No CommentsThere should have been no doubt: the U.S. women were the favorites to win the Olympic gold. And yet there was, stemming from what happened in Tokyo.
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Paris 2024: U.S. women hang on to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold
23 June 2025 11:54 AM | No CommentsThe U.S. women's team held off France, 67-66, at Bercy Arena.
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Film Archive
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“Sori: Voice from the Heart” (로봇, 소리) – 2016 SDAFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on November 12, 2016 | No CommentsA father searches for his missing daughter and a secret satellite crashes to Earth in the thoughtful, and surprisingly moving, "Sori: Voice from the Heart." -
刘成达的《口袋里的花》
Christopher BournePosted on October 31, 2016 | No Comments你可以把这部电影看成是马来西亚版的《400击》。 《口袋里的花》，刘成达的处女作，于2008年在美 国亚裔国际电影节上崭露头角，也是目前马来西亚涌 现出来的多产的电影之星中另一个绝好的典范。 -
Film Review: “The Lovers and the Despot”
Christopher BournePosted on September 29, 2016 | No CommentsThe story of two South Koreans drafted into making films in North Korea potentially makes for a great movie. “The Lovers and the Despot” isn’t that film. -
“The Story of Our Home” – 2016 Pyongyang Film Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 22, 2016 | No CommentsThe North Korean film "The Story of Our Home" (우리 집 이야기) is loosely based on the true story of the country's "girl mother." -
“A Quiet Outpost” – 2016 Pyongyang Film Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 21, 2016 | No CommentsBased on the history of Russians guarding the Afghan-Tajik border in the early post-USSR ‘90s, "A Quiet Outpost" suffers due to a bloated narrative. -
Daniel Gordon’s “Hillsborough” – 2016 Pyongyang Film Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 21, 2016 | No CommentsAn update of the 2014 documentary recounts the tragic story of how 96 people died at the 1989 F.A. Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. -
“Chan Is Missing” found again in New York
Christopher BournePosted on September 9, 2016 | No CommentsWayne Wang’s landmark film “Chan Is Missing,” now being revived in 35mm, remarkably feels just as fresh, original, and revelatory 34 years later. -
Film Review: “Operation Chromite”
Christopher BournePosted on August 22, 2016 | No Comments“Operation Chromite”’s main weakness is that it treats all its characters as cardboard patriotic symbols rather than actual relatable people. -
Film Review: “Tamako in Moratorium”
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 13, 2016 | No CommentsYet another addition to the NEET character genre in Japanese film, Nobuhiro Yamashita's "Tamako in Moratorium" (もらとりあむタマ子) is an artsy work full of unrealized potential. -
Johnnie To’s “Three” (三人行) – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Christopher BournePosted on August 3, 2016 | No CommentsA return to his familiar milieu of cops and gangsters, "Three" continues To’s experiments in combining theatrical and cinematic space.