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We’re at the end of the two weeks of the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) -- here are some of the more compelling (and less so) films.

The Scythian Lamb is billed as a dark comedy, but I didn’t find it particularly funny.

Here we are at the point in this year's New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) where the quirky independent South Korean movies pop up.

This is a rare example of political thriller epic that Hollywood may not know how to make anymore, or at least not with this level intensity and conviction.

The Empty Hands isn’t really a martial arts movie so much as a low-key character study -- a minimalist, nonlinear, elliptical arthouse indie.

Say what you will about this movie, but it's never dull.

China is seeing a renaissance in crime noir movies, and the New York Asian Film Festival has two of the latest entries in the genre.

It’s interesting to see how other countries tackle superhero movies in the wake of the Marvel juggernaut, and Inuyashiki is Japan’s first real attempt.

One Cut of the Dead is the funniest movie in the New York Asian Film Festival this year. This is the funniest movie I've seen this year.

The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful, Yang Ya Che’s female gangster film, is one of the best Chinese-language movies of the past year.

The New York Asian Film Festival is often defined by the presence of crime and action thrillers from Asia, and the opening two days delivers in spades.

The New York Asian Film Festival opened with a literal bang in an epic biopic about infamous Japanese porn magnate Akira Suei.

It's that time of the year! The New York Asian Film Festival takes over Lincoln Center for two weeks to showcase Asian movies from the last 12 months.

A pair of star-crossed lovers, a hedonistic young policewoman, and a straight-edge vegan hackivist end up on the run with the whole society after them.

Sony released some impressive trailers this evening. Here’s the trailer for Sucker Punch’s samurai game Ghost of Tsushima.

At the pre-show for Sony's PlayStation E3 press conference, announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops III would be released as a PlayStation Plus game.

Microsoft released a teaser trailer for the upcoming DLC for the popular Xbox One exclusive platformer Cuphead, "The Delicious Last Course".

Tales of Vespseria was a well-liked Japanese Role-Playing Game released on Xbox 360 in 2008 as part of the popular long-running Tales Of JRPG series.

Manhunt, John Woo's latest movie, his return to crime thrillers where people shoot at each other in balletic slow motion while doves flutter to add to the beauty of it all, will be coming to Netflix.

Warren Ellis has seen "Avengers: Infinity War", and offers his thoughts on the most recent Marvel Cinematic Universe film.

With the announcement of the oversized Action Comics #1000, DC's long game was revealed to be to take away Superman's underpants for seven years and then bring it back for the big thousandth-issue anniversary. Their absence was designed to make the fans’ hearts grow stronger.

Sherlock fans have been clamouring in vain for a new season of the show, but fear not! HBO Asia has seen fit to produce their own remake of the popular BBC show in Japan — by switching genders. Introducing… Miss Sherlock.

So Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not a hit in China, opening second and only earning half the box office takings of The Ex-File: The Return of the Exes, a low-budget comedy about manchild exes.

Visionary writer Ales Kot talks his new comic, Days of Hate, and the reasons why he escaped to the woods for some alone time.

Apparently, there’s some minor hubbub this week about new Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski admitting he wrote Marvel Comics under a Japanese pseudonym, Akira

Geostorm Review: Staggeringly mediocre. It has the most colour-by-numbers script and characters you’ve seen a million times in the last 30 years.

Dennis Haysbert plays Head of Security in NBC's upcoming sci-fi drama Reverie — but he played a very different character in the short-lived 'Incorporated'.

The cast and crew of NBC's upcoming sci-fi drama Reverie discuss why it was so important to include characters from all walks of life.

The cast of the upcoming NBC sci-fi drama Reverie showed off the series' pilot at New York Comic Con 2017 — and things got a little emotional.

Outside the Javits Center on Friday, people in yellow jackets were giving out free cartons of drinking water — with a Dirk Gently twist!