James Marsh
@marshy00.bsky.social
Film critic in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post / RTHK Radio 3 / Deadline / Deep Dive Movie Reviews / ScreenAnarchy / Fantastic Fest / Critics Choice / OFCS - also talking & writing for Arrow / Umbrella / Second Sight / Film Movement / Vinegar Syndrome
THE APARTMENT: after a bit of a hiatus, @stevehackman1.bsky.social and I return to our Every Best Picture series, joined this episode by my longtime crony @pierceconran.bsky.social to discuss this seminal romantic comedy and all things Billy Wilder. Enjoy! youtu.be/8n0gvRblAD0?...
Every Best Picture - The Apartment (1960) - Academy Award Winners
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November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
THE APARTMENT: after a bit of a hiatus, @stevehackman1.bsky.social and I return to our Every Best Picture series, joined this episode by my longtime crony @pierceconran.bsky.social to discuss this seminal romantic comedy and all things Billy Wilder. Enjoy! youtu.be/8n0gvRblAD0?...
New pickups from @criterion.bsky.social @arrowvideo.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
New pickups from @criterion.bsky.social @arrowvideo.bsky.social
HAD I NOT SEEN THE SUN: Netflix's latest Taiwanese drama series may present as a serial killer mystery, but is really a romantic teen drama, packed with blackmail, extortion, drug abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, bullying and just a hint of the supernatural. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Review | Had I Not Seen the Sun: Netflix’s ridiculous serial killer romance
In this Taiwanese Netflix romance, a serial killer is interviewed nine years after his crimes by a reporter who is plagued by nightmares.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
HAD I NOT SEEN THE SUN: Netflix's latest Taiwanese drama series may present as a serial killer mystery, but is really a romantic teen drama, packed with blackmail, extortion, drug abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, bullying and just a hint of the supernatural. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
AGAINST ALL ODDS: While smaller and scrappier than most recent Chinese war movies, Lau Ho-leung's Hong Kong-set WWII thriller punches well above its weight - and features Louise Wong with a skinhead and flamethrower! www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Review | Against All Odds: Hong Kong-set WWII thriller punches above its weight
A downed US pilot’s rescue entwines with a plot to assassinate a Japanese official in a gripping, intimate WWII thriller set in Hong Kong.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
AGAINST ALL ODDS: While smaller and scrappier than most recent Chinese war movies, Lau Ho-leung's Hong Kong-set WWII thriller punches well above its weight - and features Louise Wong with a skinhead and flamethrower! www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
New movies out today in Hong Kong: THE RUNNING MAN, NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T, AGAINST ALL ODDS, KOKUHO, THE FIRST RIDE
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
New movies out today in Hong Kong: THE RUNNING MAN, NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T, AGAINST ALL ODDS, KOKUHO, THE FIRST RIDE
KOKUHO: Anchored by an astonishing central performance from Ryo Yoshizawa and a fastidious devotion to the traditional art of kabuki theatre, Lee Sang-il’s sumptuous saga emerges as the finest Japanese film of the year. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Review | Kokuho: kabuki epic with Ryo Yoshizawa is the best Japanese film of the year
Kokuho is a lavish, bewitching story of two Japanese kabuki theatre actors, raised in the same family and competing to become the best.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
KOKUHO: Anchored by an astonishing central performance from Ryo Yoshizawa and a fastidious devotion to the traditional art of kabuki theatre, Lee Sang-il’s sumptuous saga emerges as the finest Japanese film of the year. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
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R.I.P. Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the giant figures in history of Japanese cinema news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6558551
俳優・仲代達矢さん死去 92歳 - Yahoo!ニュース
映画「人間の条件」や黒沢明監督の「影武者」などに主演し、主宰する「無名塾」で後進を育てた俳優で文化勲章受章者の仲代達矢（なかだい・たつや、本名元久＝もとひさ）さんが死去したことが11日、分かった。9
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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
R.I.P. Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the giant figures in history of Japanese cinema news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6558551
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Action fans take note! LAST SAMURAI STANDING is a fantastic chanbara spin on Battle Royale & Squid Game starring Junichi Okada, who also produces and serves as action choreographer. Drops on Netflix this Friday: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Review | Last Samurai Standing: 1800s Japan meets Squid Game in bloody Netflix drama
Thrilling saga with Junichi Okada as a warrior in a deadly race across Japan gives a new perspective on a sadistic premise we’ve seen before.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Action fans take note! LAST SAMURAI STANDING is a fantastic chanbara spin on Battle Royale & Squid Game starring Junichi Okada, who also produces and serves as action choreographer. Drops on Netflix this Friday: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Action fans take note! LAST SAMURAI STANDING is a fantastic chanbara spin on Battle Royale & Squid Game starring Junichi Okada, who also produces and serves as action choreographer. Drops on Netflix this Friday: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Review | Last Samurai Standing: 1800s Japan meets Squid Game in bloody Netflix drama
Thrilling saga with Junichi Okada as a warrior in a deadly race across Japan gives a new perspective on a sadistic premise we’ve seen before.
www.scmp.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Action fans take note! LAST SAMURAI STANDING is a fantastic chanbara spin on Battle Royale & Squid Game starring Junichi Okada, who also produces and serves as action choreographer. Drops on Netflix this Friday: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Turning into quite the Negative Nelly this weekend, after a decidedly luke warm reaction to PREDATOR, I got to vent with @stevehackman1.bsky.social about my disappointment with GDT’s FRANKENSTEIN. Great conversation all the same: youtu.be/qIR6kSBameI?...
FRANKENSTEIN | Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein lives...barely
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November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Turning into quite the Negative Nelly this weekend, after a decidedly luke warm reaction to PREDATOR, I got to vent with @stevehackman1.bsky.social about my disappointment with GDT’s FRANKENSTEIN. Great conversation all the same: youtu.be/qIR6kSBameI?...
PREDATOR: BADLANDS - Dan Trachtenberg continues to take the franchise is bold new directions, but this time - it pains me to say - many of his choices left me cold. I share a few thoughts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyxA...
PREDATOR: BADLANDS - Elle Fanning's sci-fi action sequel is a Disneyfied Star Wars-style adventure
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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
PREDATOR: BADLANDS - Dan Trachtenberg continues to take the franchise is bold new directions, but this time - it pains me to say - many of his choices left me cold. I share a few thoughts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyxA...
If you see this, post egg
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If you see this, post egg
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Existential question time: is a prequel also a sequel?
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Existential question time: is a prequel also a sequel?
Existential question time: is a prequel also a sequel?
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Existential question time: is a prequel also a sequel?
As it turns out, what I didn’t need in a new Predator movie was more predator. While PREDATOR: BADLANDS certainly has its moments, it’s been so aggressively Disneyfied that it feels more like a Star Wars movie than anything, incl. redeemed villain, quest for self-worth, let’s all get along plot etc.
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As it turns out, what I didn’t need in a new Predator movie was more predator. While PREDATOR: BADLANDS certainly has its moments, it’s been so aggressively Disneyfied that it feels more like a Star Wars movie than anything, incl. redeemed villain, quest for self-worth, let’s all get along plot etc.
New movies out today in Hong Kong: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, GIRL, A WRITER’S ODYSSEY II
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
New movies out today in Hong Kong: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, GIRL, A WRITER’S ODYSSEY II
ETERNITY looks to put a hip A24 spin on a classic Capra-esque romantic fantasy but is ultimately left unable to choose who its target audience really is - those excited by the young cast (all good, esp Teller), or a considerably older generation, for whom the central dilemma might actually resonate.
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
ETERNITY looks to put a hip A24 spin on a classic Capra-esque romantic fantasy but is ultimately left unable to choose who its target audience really is - those excited by the young cast (all good, esp Teller), or a considerably older generation, for whom the central dilemma might actually resonate.
This scene chilled me to the bone as a child
I want whatever alcohol or drugs the person who planned this scene took.
It’s both amazing and terrible 🙃
It’s both amazing and terrible 🙃
November 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This scene chilled me to the bone as a child
Locally produced animation ANOTHER WORLD is causing quite the sensation right now, for its dazzling animated portrayal of a young girl's journey through the underworld, so I picked out 10 more animated features that dare to venture into the afterlife.
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Can’t get enough of Another World? 10 animated films set in the afterlife
If you liked Another World, you will love these 10 afterlife animations, with subjects from rabbits and dogs to a pianist and a corpse bride.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Locally produced animation ANOTHER WORLD is causing quite the sensation right now, for its dazzling animated portrayal of a young girl's journey through the underworld, so I picked out 10 more animated features that dare to venture into the afterlife.
www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Just announced as part of @vinsyn.bsky.social's Black Friday pre-order sale, @pierceconran.bsky.social & I get our hands, eyes and ears dirty with our audio commentary for pinku film director extraordinaire Hisayasu Sato's AN ARIA ON GAZES (aka THE BEDROOM). vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #2 - An Aria on Gazes / Love - Zero = Infinity
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November 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just announced as part of @vinsyn.bsky.social's Black Friday pre-order sale, @pierceconran.bsky.social & I get our hands, eyes and ears dirty with our audio commentary for pinku film director extraordinaire Hisayasu Sato's AN ARIA ON GAZES (aka THE BEDROOM). vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...