Articles by Allan Tong

Nowhere Boy

Sam Taylor Wood

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2010

Based on the memoirs of John Lennon's half-sister, Nowhere Boy is an ambitious, but flawed, dramatization detailing the formative years of...

A Single Man

Tom Ford

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2010

Fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut should've been called A Single Gay Man. I raise this issue because the DVD exploits Julianne...

1991: The Year Punk Broke

David Markey

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

Once in a while a film comes along and captures the moment right before a culture shifts. One of those films is David Markey's 1991: The Ye...

A Drummer's Dream

John Walker

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

A remote farm in Ontario's cottage country is the unlikely setting for a summit of some of the world's top drummers. Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr...

Red Cliff

John Woo

PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2010

A master director of action films returns with a historic epic made on a massive scale. With the help of four writers, three editors, two d...

Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2010

The funniest man alive taped a concert in Washington during his last comedy tour and broadcast it last year on HBO. For 89 minutes, William...

The Yes Men Fix The World

Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno and Kurt Engfehr

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2010

Love or hate them, the merry pranksters of American activism are back to wreak havoc on the world's greedy corporations. Following their ep...

Rock'n'Roll High School

Allan Arkush

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2010

Hands down, this is a great DVD package of a classic rock movie. True, this isn't the first release of this 1979 cult flick starring the Ra...