Articles by Allan Tong

Sleeping Beauty

Julia Leigh

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2012

This Australian drama follows a university student named Lucy who moonlights as a prostitute. The twist is that she sleeps coma-like throug...

Confucius [Blu-Ray]

Mei Hu

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2012

Chow Yun-Fat returns to Western audiences following a long absence from 2000's international hit, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The legen...

Girl Model

David Redmon & Ashley Sabin

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2012

This documentary follows two characters working in the same industry: teenage modelling in Japan. Nadya is a 13-year-old girl who escapes r...

The Vanishing Spring Light

Xun Yu

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2012

The death of Grandma Jiang symbolizes the passing of a traditional way of life in modern China, according to this documentary. She lives in...

Fightville

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2012

MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is the hip-hop of sports. Scorned at first, MMA soon gained a rabid following, to the point where it's now demandi...

I Am Bruce Lee

Pete McCormack

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2012

Elvis, Marilyn, Ali, Bruce Lee ― these are pop culture icons, and the film industry venerates them by regularly pumping out their bio...

Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2012

Ernie Kovacs is the Captain Beefheart of American comedy: little known, but hugely influential. He's inspired comedians from Monty Python t...

Police Woman Season 2

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2012

Police Woman was one of the hottest action shows on in the mid-'70s; it was also historic. Angie Dickinson (as Sgt. Pepper Anderson) proved...