Articles by Allan Tong

These Girls

John Hazlett

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

These Girls is an adaptation of a play by Vivienne Laxdal that doesn't quite make the leap to the big screen. It's a farce about three teen...

Eve And The Fire Horse

Julia Kwan

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Eve (Phoebe Jojo Kut) is a precocious nine-year-old growing up in mid-'70s Vancouver. She was born in the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse, w...

These Girls

John Hazlett

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

These Girls is an adaptation of a play by Vivienne Laxdal that doesn't quite make the leap to the big screen. It's a farce about three teen...

Sunflower

Zhang Yang

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Sunflower follows the Zhang family of Beijing across three decades, from the dying days of Mao's rule to China's economic boom of the prese...

Slow Burn

Wayne Beach

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock) is an assistant district attorney on the rise in an unnamed American city. Thanks to her, gang arrests are up....

Zatoichi

Takeshi Kitano

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Takeshi Kitano revives Zatoichi, the Japanese folk hero, in an audacious, dazzling film. Set in the early 1800s, Zatoichi is a blind masseu...

The Outer Limits: Season 2

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

One of TV’s most imaginative sci-fi shows returns to DVD, all 17 episodes of the 1964-’65 season running over 14 hours. Like Th...

Irreversible

Gaspar Noé

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Irreversible sent out shockwaves when it was released last year. Some filmgoers walked out. Others praised it. All agree it’s a cruel...