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Apr 5, 20201 min read
Short Film Review: See You Next Century
In homage of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), Director James Lee uses a series of still frames to tell the story of a time traveler going...
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Short Film Review: My Girlfriend is a Cannibal
Raymond is a hopeless romantic, whose good guy persona has seen him taken advantage of, time and time again. However, his luck appears to...
Dec 25, 20191 min read
The 15 Best Asian Horror / Exploitation Movies of 2019
Filled with plenty of high-quality and impressive works throughout the year, Asian countries produced a sparkling amount of Horror...
Sep 29, 20192 min read
Film Review: Two Sisters (2019) by James Lee
The success of American independent producer Roger Corman can be attributed to a variety of measures, mostly through the usual of...
Sep 5, 20191 min read
Noob Movie Review - The Beautiful Washing Machine
An interesting and twisted story of Teoh who bought this used washing machine from the electrical store which has changed his life, and...
Apr 19, 20191 min read
Two Sisters peels back the curtain on siblinghood horror
Some things never leave you. A secret. A sister. A shattered childhood. These conjure the goosebumps when watching Two Sisters. The...
Apr 15, 20191 min read
A Tale Of… – Two Sisters
Not a review of the Korean film, Adi Iskandar finds that James Lee’s ‘Two Sisters’ latest effort hits all the right spots all the same....
Mar 11, 20191 min read
KILL-FIST: James Lee’s New Martial Arts Thriller Is A Lesson In Pain And Punishment
Lee writes and directs, as well as executive produces with Pang for a story that palpitates moreso in its psychological fervor than...
Jan 13, 20171 min read
The Fat Bidin Film Club review KL24: Zombies
Here's episode 84 of The Fat Bidin Film Club where they review our latest micro-budget zombie flick KL24: Zombies. For more reviews and...
Jan 10, 20171 min read
Dailyseni Review KL24: Zombies
A fitting usage of the universal language of zombies as a vehicle for a uniquely Malaysian social commentary. Slightly campy in its...
Apr 7, 20161 min read
Best Malaysian Shorts Ever
I have been going to Malaysian Shorts — on and off — for nearly 12 years now. The programme last week at Black Box, Publika was probably...
Dec 12, 20133 min read
Floating Sun | Nishikata Film Review
Floating Sun (幻日, 2013) is a bit of a departure for Tokyo-based Malaysian director Edmund Yeo into the horror genre. This short film is...
Aug 17, 20132 min read
Three Bites of Malaysian Horror
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — A good storyteller and a ghost story are a match as satisfying as wine and cheese, coffee and chocolate, pulut and...
Jul 5, 20101 min read
Going to work, and working so well
When I told a friend I was going to watch a Chinese dance group address the issue of urban angst on Saturday night, he said, “But don’t...
Nov 25, 20093 min read
Sancho Does Asia | Call If You Need Me
"Let me see you stripped Down to the bone" - Depeche Mode After the success in Malaise by his previous production, Histeria, a horror...
Nov 16, 20092 min read
Camcorder Capers in Malaysia
James Lee has finally come of age, and with him, independent Malaysian film (or more accurately, digital video). A lanky, laconic figure...
Apr 27, 20091 min read
Call if You Need Me HKIFF 2009: Capsule Reviews
James Lee's latest, Call if You Need Me reminds us that he can make solid films, even genre films, when relaxed of any commercial...
Apr 25, 20091 min read
SIFF 2009 Review: Call If You Need Me
It's an open secret that James Lee gets a lot of love from the Singapore International Film Festival, having almost all, if not all I...
Oct 3, 20081 min read
Variety Review Breathing in Mud
A husband long thought dead returns to his remarried wife in “Breathing in Mud,” a well-scripted urban meller by busy Malaysian helmer...
Apr 5, 20081 min read
SIFF'08: Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, Breathing in Mud
Here's a typical James Lee romantic drama, with the usual dryly intertwining, secretly crossed-up relationships of his Love...
Dec 7, 20071 min read
She's Not There
The title of this film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the...
Jul 7, 20072 min read
Sancho Does Asia | Ah Beng Returns
While an absence - that of a certain Ah Beng - hovers over the set of human configurations of a small Chinese gang - this one declines...
May 22, 20076 min read
Strange Bedfellows
Two very varied feature films opened recently, the first two parts of a planned trilogy on love by acclaimed indie filmmaker James Lee....
Apr 25, 20073 min read
James Lee's Aesthetics
Malaysian director James Lee is a sublime chronicler of despair. He discovers something hypnotically fascinating in an emotion that most...
Apr 13, 20075 min read
Stéphane Mas: Adultery through vacuum cleaning
How to show a disappearance without seeing the one on process in the heart of a couple ? Here, the disappearance of a woman leaving her...
Apr 4, 20073 min read
Sancho Does Asia review
Difficult to imagine a title of film at once as little poetic and really intriguing. And yet, it is true that it is pretty, this apple...
Oct 18, 20063 min read
Screen International Daily: Before We Fall In Love Again
Husbands and their wives' lovers have never hit it off as well as they do in Before We Fall In Love Again, a strange and tightly...
Feb 5, 20051 min read
Destructive Alienations
A developed film language, a sophisticated film expression and a stylistically established approach to the film material - is something...
Jul 6, 20041 min read
Better Luck Today: Asian Fest Imagines There's No Countries
How much Asian cinema can one city take in a single summer? Last month's New York Asian Film Festival placed some of the continent's...
Jul 28, 20031 min read
Variety Review: ‘Room To Let’
A boarding house in Kuala Lumpur offers a temporary nesting place for an out-of-work reflexologist in Malaysian DV maestro James Lee’s...
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