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Previously in this space, I reviewed Arrow’s exemplary ShawScope Vol. 2 set, and called it a must-buy for fans of old school kung fu...
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Previously in this space, I reviewed Arrow’s exemplary ShawScope Vol. 2 set, and called it a must-buy for fans of old school kung fu...
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies It was a brisk fifty-five degrees...
Head Count is a true surprise: an unheralded low budget release from a first time feature director (or in this case, a directing team)...
1923 is the second in a series of epic western miniseries that serve as prologue to Tyler Sheridan’s runaway success, Yellowstone. Yellowstone, and its...
Oldboy is, like Rashomon or The Bicycle Thief is not just a great film, but a film that announced the precision and skill of...
William Friedkin followed the one-two punch of The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973) with Sorcerer (1977), a remake of Clouzot’s The Wages...
I normally do not concern myself with the general critical reaction for the films I’m tasked to write about but Hidden Strike, the much...
“It gave back the confidence that the Western can be a great movie.” ––Bernardo Bertolucci, on the films of Sergio Leone I spent...
Includes The Dungeonmaster (Ragewar), Dolls, Cellar Dweller, Arena, Robot Jox Produced by Charles Band, Brian Yuzna, Irwin Yablans Directed by John Carl Buechler, Stuart...
Let’s get one thing straight, right out of the chute: Sisu is absolutely not “John Wick with Nazis” as I have heard breathlessly proclaimed...
Streetwise is another entry in the recent wave of neo-noir coming from Mainland China that includes some great films like A Touch of Sin...
When I’m asked whether or not I’d recommend Tulsa King showrunner Taylor Sheridan’s most famous creation, Yellowstone by one of the few people left...
Let’s talk philosophy for a moment, you and I. About 300 B.C. there was a Greek fella named Plato, who was trying to resolve...
In 2008, director Wilson Yip and star Donnie Yen teamed for the fourth time to make a film loosely based on the life story...
Moon Garden is a phantasmagoria. It is not a horror film so much as it is a showcase for a certain kind of dark...
Sakra isn’t just a martial arts film, it’s a wuxia film. That particular flavor of Chinese pulp wherein heroes fly into beautiful fights as...
Recently I reviewed Shout! Factory’s massive Jackie Chan box set on this site, and now that the sequel has dropped its time to go...
Police Story 3: Supercop is a Hong Kong action-comedy starring Jackie Chan (Drunken Master, Rush Hour), Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and directed...
Produced by Jie Li, Belle Lau, Yanming Liu, Yuan Nong, Tianfu Xu Written and Directed by Larry Yang Starring Jackie Chan, Liu Haocun, Guo...
Produced by James Cameron, Jon Landau Written by James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, Shane Salerno Directed by James Cameron Starring Sam...
The Fist of the Condor is a 2023 Chilean martial arts film directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (Kiltro, Redeemer) and starring martial arts phenom...
The last two years have seen Hong Kong film collectors treated to dozens of stunning physical media releases from the finest labels in...
If you’re North American and don’t have a region free Blu-ray player: first, get one and second, you might not be aware of how...
In the wake of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, there was a fad of taking established comic book characters and paring them down to...