Articles by Allan Tong
Snatch: Deluxe Edition
Guy Ritchie
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005
Snatch builds on Ritchie's debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which thrived on his energetic rock video directing (hot soundtrack,...
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Jean-Marc Vallée
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005
A TIFF '05 audience favourite, C.R.A.Z.Y. is a funny, infectious ride through Quebecois pop culture of the '60s and '70s. The movie is seen...
Buddy
Morten Tyldum
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005
Kristoffer (Nicolai Cleve Broch) is a 20-something Norwegian who videotapes himself and his buddies leaping out of buildings and doing othe...
Hop
Dominique Standaert
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005
Hop is a fairy tale of sorts about Justin (a convincing Kolomba Mbuyi) and his dad, two illegals from Burundi now living in Belgium who bec...
Morlang
Tjebbo Penning
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005
Julius Morlang (Paul Freeman) is a successful painter living in Ireland with a young admirer (Susan Burroughs). For the previous 15 years,...
El Bola (Pellet)
Achero Mañas
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005
El Bola is Pablo (Juan José Ballesta), a 12-year-old Spanish boy nicknamed "Pellet" who lives with an abusive father (Manuel Morón) and has...
Kontroll
Nimród Antal
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005
In Eastern Europe, "Kontrollers" are the dreaded people who inspect passenger tickets on subways. Working on an honour system, passengers a...
Antares
Götz Spielmann
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005
Antares is a smart, entertaining collection of three stories set in Austria that intertwine at a car crash. The stories are "slices of life...