Articles by Allan Tong

City Of Men

Paulo Morelli

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2008

City of Men is the poor cousin of the brilliant City of God, sharing the same producer and set-up. Both are about the desperately poor "fav...

Honeydripper

John Sayles

PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2008

It’s the early ’50s and rural Alabama nightclub owner Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover) needs to fill his Honeydripper Lounge with customers or...

Sunflower

Zhang Yang

PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2008

It’s taken nearly three years for this fine Chinese drama to reach DVD stores after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Fe...

Emerging Auteur Animators

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2008

Japanese animators were in the Toronto Worldwide Shorts festival spotlight this year, offering an experimental blend of shorts that leaned...

Genius Party Beyond

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2008

The second of two programmes showcasing the acclaimed Japanese animation house STUDIO4°C (The Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knight) is a very m...

The Neu Europe

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2008

This collection of Euro shorts offered a needed shot of serious drama in the festival. Shot like a black and white documentary, Edward Feld...

Kung Fu Panda

Mark Osborne & John Stevenson

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2008

The big animated hype of the summer actually delivers. Kung Fu Panda recently made its red carpet world debut at Cannes, with stars Jack Bl...

Cinema16: European Short Films

PUBLISHED May 23, 2008

We’ve all seen the blockbusters of Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan and Lars von Trier, but what about their early short films? Typically, s...