Articles by Allan Tong

Genesis

Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

The long-awaited sequel to Microcosmos arrives with Genesis. Microcosmos was a groundbreaking French documentary that used microphotography...

Saving Face

Alice Wu

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

Featuring an Asian-American cast headed by the luminous Joan Chen, Saving Face is an unconventional romantic comedy centring on a mother (C...

Bride and Prejudice

Gurinder Chadha

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

On paper it looks promising: adapt a Jane Austen novel to modern-day India, mix white suitors with lovely Indian daughters, blend Bollywood...

Brothers

Susanne Bier

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Brothers is a fine yet flawed Danish drama focusing on post-traumatic stress syndrome as told through the parallel story of two brothers. M...

M*A*S*H: Season 8

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

TV's finest satirical sitcom starts to age by its eighth season. Stars Alan Alda (Hawkeye) and Loretta Swit (Hot Lips) sport middle-age pau...

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland: Classic Albums

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

This is a straight re-issue of the 1997 Rhino release. The only upgrade is the menu that replaces the horrid psychedelia of the original. D...

Lightning In A Bottle

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Two years ago, some of America's greatest musicians (B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke, Ruth Brown, Macy Gray, Nathalie Cole and others)...

Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)

Kang Je-gyu

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Tae Guk Gi is a Hollywood war movie made by Koreans for Koreans about a seminal event that still divides this nation. The Korean War of 195...