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16 Foreign Movies to Mainland China in March 2019 Including Trailers with Chinese Subtitles
🎥 Film culture around the world~ Now that the cinematic wasteland known as February is over, we finally get a list of movies worthy of any cross-cultural film critic. At least we had the Oscars to fall back on. And a couple good local choices, too. On to the juicy details… we get 16(!) this month,…
11 Foreign Movies Coming to Mainland China in January 2019 including Trailers with Chinese Subtitles
🎥 Film culture from around the world~ New year, new movie list! And not too bad of a selection if we do say so ourselves… at least better than last month. A lot of you were askin’ about the new Transformers and the Creed sequel and we thankfully get both of them (on the same…
12 Foreign Movies Come to Mainland China in November 2018 (including Trailers w/ Chinese Subtitles)
~Film culture from around the world~ Not gonna lie, this might be the best month for movies in China in the history of movies in China. Even with the exact same number of films as last month, we have MUCH more variety and there is absolutely something for everyone. We’ve got action, we’ve got fantasy,…
12 Foreign Movies Come to Mainland China in October 2018 (including Trailers w/ Chinese Subtitles)
~Film culture from around the world~ With the “spooky” month finally upon us again, China has given many fun films to distract us from pumpkin carving and costume prepping. In fact, five more than last month. We get another action blockbuster, another Bollywood teacher flick, a sad Japanese love story, a handful of hit-or-miss cartoons, a…
7 Foreign Movies Come to Mainland China in September 2018 (including Trailers w/ Chinese Subtitles)
~Film culture from around the world~ With August’s massive movie list over and thus summer being officially over, too, we get another lousy month for international films. We trust you all had wonderful summer travels to other countries, though, where you could watch all the cool movies you wanted. But now, welcome back to China,…
15 Foreign Movies Come to Mainland China in March 2018 (including Trailers w/ Chinese Subtitles)
~Film culture from around the world~ With last month‘s abysmal list, we get a record-breaking 15 big ones in March to follow the annual holiday migration… Back to work and back to the movies. Amen and amen. We have multiple Oscar nominations, multiple Hollywood blockbusters, an old Bollywood flick (that’s not Aamir Khan), and multiple cartoons for the kiddos….
14 Foreign Movies Come to China in January 2018 including Trailers with Chinese subtitles (中英双语)
~Introducing film culture from around the world~ New year, new us, right? No… never say that. But a new month does mean another list of sweet sweet movies coming to Mainland China. How about those 12+ that came in December? Fairly lackluster, to be honest. Oh, and don’t forget to start writing 2018 on all of your checks. You’re welcome!…
Yes, there’s a Chinese word for “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”…
~You can’t fully learn a language without learning the culture~ Oh, this is fun! If you’re not famliiar with this famous ditty, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is a song from the 1964 musical film Mary Poppins. It was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke (pictured). Every child born in the USA from the…
Music: Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
~Introducing music culture from around the world~ Have you ever listened to Fleet Foxes before? It’s been a while, we know. Crack-Up is their third studio album and it is their first release in six years. Fleet Foxes is a critically acclaimed indie folk band from Seattle, USA, who rose to prominence in 2007 with their first couple EPs… then came their…