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Kaiju Shakedown is back!

March this year brought the return of Grady Hendrix’s wonderful writing on Asian cinema to the web, in the form of the rebirth of his blog Kaiju Shakedown at the Film Comment website. Grady is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival, and he brings a depth of knowledge and a sharpness of wit to his writing on cinema, particularly Hong Kong cinema, that I’m thoroughly jealous of.

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More Shaws HK Classics on iTunes (and finally easier to find!)


Following up on my post from late last year noting that the Celestial releases of the classic Shaw Brothers films from Hong Kong had started appearing on iTunes, I just thought I would note that they have finally organised a way for fans to find all of the Shaws films available there.

According to a recent Facebook update from Celestial, this link should work for all of the countries where they’ve released their films:

http://www.itunes.com/shawbrothers

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Madman and the ABC screening anime on iView

Via Madman’s blog comes the news that they’ve teamed up with the ABC’s iView service to bring Aussies a bunch of exclusive screenings for what looks like at least the next month or so. The goodies are:

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