Articles by Allan Tong

Frozen River

Courtney Hunt

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2009

This low-budget tale about a white woman smuggling illegal aliens across a Mohawk reserve from Quebec into New York State was 2008's indie...

The Secret Life of Bees

Gina Prince-Bythewood

PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2009

Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a white girl befriending a family of African-American women in the segregated American South successfully moves...

George Wallace

John Frankenheimer

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2009

George Wallace appears in history books as a key villain in the American Civil Rights movement of the '60s. The Governor of Alabama blocked...

The Rocker

Peter Cattaneo

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2009

The Rocker is like a rock album that has a few kick-ass songs but doesn't add up to a satisfying whole. Rainn Wilson (The Office, Oliver in...

Duckman Seasons 3 & 4

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2009

Before Family Guy and sometime after Fritz The Cat there was Duckman, the world's horniest, tackiest, most misogynist, misanthropic, selfis...

Ping Pong Playa

Jessica Yu

PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2009

That's Christopher Wang, as in "Wong." Better yet, call him C-Dub, a badass, streetwise dude of a b-ball player who's actually a middle-cla...

Bangkok Dangerous

Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang

PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2009

There are two versions of this DVD: the Rolls-Royce with an extra disc jammed with bonuses galore and this one, the stripped-down Smart car...

Brick Lane

Sarah Gavron

PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2009

Monica Ali's acclaimed novel about a young bride immigrating from a Bangladeshi village to London's East End makes the leap to celluloid an...