Author Charles Leary

March 22–April 6, 2005 The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), finishing its 29th installment this past April, has long been a sophisticated locus not only for Hong Kong film culture and cin...

I'll tell you one thing. There's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines. That'll give you a set of emotions that'll stay with you. Know what I mean?...

Leary maps the vertiginous images of “totality” presented in The Matrix and its sequels.

Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds” (1959 USA 26 mins) Prod Co: Revue Studios Prod: Everett Chambers Dir: Boris Segal Scr: Sidney Michaels Phot: John F. Warren Ed: Edward Haire Mus: Elmer Berns...

Jumping back and forward in time, these recent blockbusters offer multiple allegories of Hong Kong's past, present and future.

Sometimes the third world film-maker finds himself before an illiterate public, swamped by American, Egyptian or Indian serials, and karate films, and he has to go through all this, it is this material that h...

A recent, unconventional Chinese documentary blurs the lines between cinema, theatre and ‘reality.’

Hong Kong's most ambitious blockbuster reveals shifts in the industrial logic of world cinema.