1420 Best Film & TV Releases Translated Into Mandarin (Page 12)
Meg 2: The Trench (In Mandarin: 極悍巨鯊2:深溝)
Ever since James Cameron boldly wrote “S” after ALIEN on a chalkboard and then changed it to a dollar sign, the quickest way to sequel-ize your killer extraterrestrial/reptile/mammal/whatever has been to add more of it. You scored a hit with people fighting one giant mosquito? Great, here’s a sequel with six of them. Continue Reading →
The Wheel of Time
Similar2Moons: The Series, A Dance to the Music of Time, A Touch of Frost,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Ah! My Goddess, Amazing Stories, American Gothic, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Avatar: The Last Airbender,
Bodies Brimstone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Creature, Cybersix, D.N.Angel, Des, Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War, Fate/Apocrypha,
Fearless He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Hilda Furacão House of Cards, I Dream of Jeannie, In the Land of Leadale, Jewels, Kamichu!,
Little Women Loveless, Lupin,
M*A*S*H Masters of the Universe: Revelation,
Monarch of the Glen Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Mr. Mercedes, Out of This World,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Santa Evita, Shardlake,
Sherlock Holmes Spies of Warsaw, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Super Pumped,
Tales from the Neverending Story Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, The Alienist, The Chestnut Man, The Dawn of the Witch, The Family Game,
The Lost World The Old Man, The Serial Killer's Wife, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, The Strain, The Three-Body Problem, Tientsin Mystic, Tira, Unorthodox, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,
Wycliffe
Big-budget fantasy lovers have reason to celebrate this week with Amazon Studio’s The Wheel of Time Season 2's debut. With some careful tweaking by Showrunner Rafe Judkins, Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy of feminine magic and quests of destiny came to life in an impressive if uneven first season. Now, the stakes are higher, the dangers subtler, and the ever-expanding cast of characters more compelling. Continue Reading →
女子高生物語 淫らな果実 (In Mandarin: 女高中生物语 淫荡的果实)
The Criterion Channel dives into the unique hell of being a teenager & we’ll tell you which films not to miss.
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist.
Back to school time is here, and maybe you’re taking a moment to reflect on your high school days, that complicated, angsty time of bad skin, painful crushes, poorly timed boners, and discovering that you’re turning into a werewolf. Continue Reading →
Who Is Erin Carter?
SimilarA Little Princess, Alias Grace, Cleopatra, Close Relations, Cold Courage, Dead Head, Die Patriarchin, Elizabeth R, Faith,
Fallen Fool Me Once G.B.H., Good Morning Children, Halo: The Fall of Reach, Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History, Life of Shakespeare, Love You Just as You Are, Million Dollar Babies, More than Blue: The Series, Narco-Saints, Noah's Ark, Peter and Paul, Pope John Paul II,
Pride and Prejudice Quatermass II, Queen Cleopatra, Rage of Angels, Ride On Stranger, RUSH: Inspired by Battlefield,
Scully Son of the Morning Star, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Studs Lonigan, The Buccaneers, The Couple Next Door, The Fire Next Time, The Gangster Chronicles, The Gold Robbers, The Killing Kind, The Quatermass Experiment,
The Shining Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie, Ultraviolet, Unorthodox, World War II: When Lions Roared,
In Who is Erin Carter? ’s precipitating event, the titular character (Evin Ahmad)—a British ex-pat living in Spain and trying to make a living as a substitute teacher—must fight a masked gunman during a grocery store robbery. At stake is the life of nearly blind daughter Harper (Indica Watson), who cowers unseen under a display of oranges. Continue Reading →
Stoker (In Mandarin: 私房嚇)
There's more than one transition going on in Park Chan-wook's 2013 thriller Stoker. Yes, the film tells the story of how the seemingly carefree India (Mia Wasikowska) goes from worshipping her father to worshipping her uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode). But the Hitchcockian thriller -- and it is one, beyond the shadow of a doubt -- was also Director Park’s first English-language title. Continue Reading →
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (In Mandarin: 我的成年禮誠摯不邀你)
SimilarA Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion (2013), About a Boy (2002), Bring It On (2000), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Charlotte's Web (2006), Chocolat (2000), Closely Watched Trains (1966), Clueless (1995), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Holes (2003), Just Like Heaven (2005), La Chinoise (1967), Lolita (1962),
Manhattan (1979) Mary Poppins (1964) Meet the Robinsons (2007), Murder She Said (1961), My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), Party Monster (2003), Sahara (2005), Taking Woodstock (2009), The Cabbage Soup (1981), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), To Die For (1995), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988),
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Wonder Boys (2000),
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah has a simple premise. Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) wants her bat mitzvah, only a few weeks away, to be perfect. Using that premise, the film takes off, exploring the growing pains of middle school. Continue Reading →
Rebecca (In Mandarin: 蝴蝶夢)
“Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again…” So begins Daphne du Maurier’s gothic masterwork Rebecca, one of the most famous opening lines in fiction. Rebecca proved a hit upon release in 1938 and has remained in print ever since. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation, coming just two years later, netted him his first Best Director nomination. That interpretation of the text has come to be considered a classic, and with good reason. Its misty black-and-white photography and mysteries hypnotize. Continue Reading →
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (In Mandarin: 加勒比海盜:魔盜王終極之戰)
Though their core plots aren’t similar, all three movies in Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy share the common thread of emotionally immature men clinging to the relics of their youth, often to the detriment of their friendships and romantic lives. Specifically men of Generation X, who tend to glorify their younger days, and the pop culture associated with it, at a level that borders on delusional (and as a Gen X woman I can tell you we’re not much better about it). Continue Reading →
Free Fire (In Mandarin: 玩命鎗火)
The plot of Free Fire, in many ways, could not be more straightforward. A mix of thugs, gun runners, and revolutionaries meet up to exchange weapons in a Boston warehouse in the 1970s. Things go wrong in a hurry. Continue Reading →
High-Rise (In Mandarin: 魔天豪廷)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Landscape with Invisible Hand (In Mandarin: 隱形之手的風景)
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 9 Songs (2004), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Annie Hall (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979),
Blade Runner (1982) Boys Don't Cry (1999) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Chocolat (2000), Contact (1997), East of Eden (1955),
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), Heaven Is for Real (2014), I Robot (2004),
Jackie Brown (1997) Manhattan (1979) Mars Attacks! (1996),
Mary Poppins (1964) Meet the Robinsons (2007), Metropolis (1927), Murder She Said (1961), O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), Predator (1987), Random Harvest (1942), Solaris (1972), Solaris (2002), Stalker (1979), Starship Troopers (1997), The Blue Angel (1930), The Butterfly Effect (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Science of Sleep (2006), The Silent Partner (1978), The Thing (1982), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), To Die For (1995),
War of the Worlds (2005) Watch afterBarbie (2023) Prey (2022), Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Shortcomings (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023),
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
Cory Finley is obsessed with money. His characters have nice things or want them. They live in beautiful houses or enviously plot to get them. Even in the year 2036, with aliens living on (or, more precisely, about two miles above) planet Earth, people still fret over money and try to make scads of it. That’s the state of things in his latest, Landscape with Invisible Hand. It’s a title with the same bespoke aestheticism as the stuffed ocelots and oversized chess pieces his characters own. It feels seemingly designed to scare off less curious viewers. While the film has an awful lot of plot, the undergirding is the same. As in his 2017 debut Thoroughbreds, his follow-up Bad Education, and even his episodes of the abysmal miniseries WeCrashed, the drama comes from the idea of what money does to the soul. Continue Reading →
Strays (In Mandarin: 复仇狗联盟)
SimilarArmageddon (1998), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Bring It On (2000), Brother Bear (2003), Cars (2006), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Dogma (1999), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986),
From Russia with Love (1963) Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Goldfinger (1964), Good Luck Chuck (2007), Madagascar (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), Ocean's Eleven (1960), Rush Hour (1998),
Shrek the Third (2007) Snakes on a Plane (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), The Simpsons Movie (2007), Toy Story 2 (1999), Transformers (2007),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Talk to Me (2023), The Nun II (2023),
Talking animals have been an entertainment staple for practically as long as movies have been around. Most classics of the genre, like 1993’s Homeward Bound, aim squarely at children in the audience. Director Josh Greenbaum’s Strays seeks to subvert that approach by weaving dirty jokes and curse words into familiar genre tropes. The result is considerably more grating and unpleasant to watch. Continue Reading →
Westworld (In Mandarin: 西部世界)
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2046 (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2007), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999),
Back to the Future Part III (1990) Blade Runner (1982) Dune (1984), Ghost in the Shell (1995), I Robot (2004), Idiocracy (2006), La Jetée (1962), Metropolis (1927), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Predator (1987), Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979),
Strange Days (1995) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003),
War of the Worlds (2005) Watch afterBlade Runner (1982),
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
My mother was not much of a movie fan. They just never interested her that much, but when it became obvious that I was obsessed with them by the time I reached preschool age, she did nothing to discourage me. Every once in a while she'd let me know that the feature on the The 3:30 Movie (my primary outlet for watching films in those pre-cable, pre-VCR days) was something that I had to watch. Oddly, her instincts often proved to be correct and I was exposed at a very early (perhaps inappropriately so age to such films as The Producers, Duel and the Joan Rivers-penned TV movie The Girl Most Likely To. . ., all of which would be long-standing favorites of mine. Continue Reading →
A Field in England (In Mandarin: 腐国恶土)
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Jules (In Mandarin: 朱爾斯)
SimilarA.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Alien (1979), Alien Resurrection (1997), Alien³ (1992), Aliens (1986), Chicken Little (2005), K-PAX (2001), Mars Attacks! (1996), Monsters vs Aliens (2009), Nowhere (1997), Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Species (1995), Stalker (1979), The Butterfly Effect (2004), The Cabbage Soup (1981), The Thing (1982), The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008),
War of the Worlds (2005) Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Shortcomings (2023), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023),
In a media landscape with fewer and fewer options actually targeted toward adults (often tied to the death of the mid-budget movie), audiences take the scraps they're given and make the best of them. This is the space that Jules occupies, a sci-fi fairy tale about the specific loneliness of senior citizens who feel isolated, ignored, and afraid. It’s also a thin, often ham-fisted take on a tale that could have had real legs in more capable hands. Continue Reading →
Heart of Stone (In Mandarin: 谍之心)
SimilarAkira (1988), Aliens (1986), Armageddon (1998), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Code of Silence (1985), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Dr. No (1962), Enemy of the State (1998), Face/Off (1997),
From Russia with Love (1963) Goldfinger (1964), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008),
Live and Let Die (1973) Men in Black II (2002), Miami Vice (2006), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), North by Northwest (1959), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Stormbreaker (2006), Superman (1978), Terminator Salvation (2009), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Glimmer Man (1996), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Saint (1997), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The Terminator (1984),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Elemental (2023), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), The Flash (2023),
In the 2023 sea of action movies, setting yourself apart from others becomes increasingly hard. John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part 1, Extraction 2, and more have sparked an action cinema revival. It’s a rebirth that I am incredibly grateful for, certainly. Continue Reading →
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (In Mandarin: 德米特號:噬血航程)
SimilarBlade Runner (1982) Carrie (1976), Children of Men (2006), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Die Hard (1988), Dr. No (1962),
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) From Russia with Love (1963) Goldfinger (1964), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016),
Jackie Brown (1997) King Kong (1933),
Live and Let Die (1973) Mystic River (2003), Patriot Games (1992), Poseidon (2006),
Rebecca (1940) Shaft (2000) Shooter (2007), Starship Troopers (1997), Swimming Pool (2003), The 39 Steps (1935),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Perfect Storm (2000), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Silent Partner (1978),
War of the Worlds (2005) Wild at Heart (1990), You Only Live Twice (1967),
Watch afterAmerican Fiction (2023),
Barbie (2023) Gran Turismo (2023), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Talk to Me (2023), The Nun II (2023),
The Last Voyage of the Demeter feels like a movie from a different era. To a point, it is—writer Bragi Schut first drafted his adaptation of the 'Log of the "Demeter"' sequence in Bram Stoker's Dracula in the early 2000s. It's a capital letters Hollywood Creature Feature—a grimmer straight horror cousin to 2004's action/horror hybrid Van Helsing. At its best, it's an admirably gnarly monster flick—bolstered by sturdy craft from director André Øvredal and consistently good performances from a game ensemble. At its worst, it loses confidence and resorts to bumbling attempts to guide its audience by the hand—most notably in its prologue and epilogue. Continue Reading →
Only Murders in the Building
Similar3rd Rock from the Sun,
Agatha Christie's Poirot American Horror Story,
Black Books Bodies Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Common As Muck, El Chavo del Ocho, Elas por Elas,
Hospital Playlist I Love Lucy, Kamichu!, Komi Can't Communicate, Love, Victor, Loveless, Melissa, Murder in the Heartland, Murder Most Horrid, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Noah's Arc, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Stand Up!!, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, That '70s Show, The Nanny, Thriller, Twin Peaks,
Studio20th Television,
The surprise, sustained hit Only Murders in the Building brands itself as a comedy-mystery on Hulu. But, as season three hits the streaming service, with another murder for the Arconian trio of Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) to solve, something becomes apparent. The series isn’t going for big laughs. Instead, it provides warmth, small chuckles, and genial goodness between the triumvirate. The show remains about found family, intergenerational friendships, and murder mysteries. It’s perhaps best described as a cozy mystery, a murder show with a heart of gold, an oxymoron of concepts. Continue Reading →
Sightseers
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Strange Planet
SimilarA Returner's Magic Should Be Special, American Dad!, Chicken Nugget, Family Guy, Flower Boy Next Door, Futurama, Go Back Couple, Invincible, The Boondocks, The Bride of Habaek, The Simpsons, The Sound of Your Heart, The Venture Bros., Wedding Impossible,
StudioApple Studios,
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Kill List (In Mandarin: 杀戮名单)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →