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As most horror fans will attest to, quality horrors in mainstream English language cinema can be few and far between, and any gore hound...
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As most horror fans will attest to, quality horrors in mainstream English language cinema can be few and far between, and any gore hound...
The iconic crime thriller film The Departed from Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas) will be available for purchase on 4K...
I know, I know, I am a baker’s dozen number of years late in watching this insane action film. So sue me. Better late...
Face/Off is an important moment in the Hollywood stage of action master John Woo’s career because it represents the only time that Woo was...
Concrete Utopia, South Korea’s nomination for Best Foreign Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, is a tense thriller, a particularly honest class commentary, a...
Author’s Note: This essay contains minor spoilers for The Man From Nowhere. In The Man From Nowhere, Won Ban plays Cha Tae-sik, a pawnbroker...
Past Lives is about nonsense, but not the nonsense we normally talk about in this space. No supermen from another world are here to...
There’s a tendency for people who are passionate about international cinema, particularly when they first discover it, to breathlessly extol to anyone who will...
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...
Oldboy is, like Rashomon or The Bicycle Thief is not just a great film, but a film that announced the precision and skill of...
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...
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...
On April 25 Shout! Factory will release the 8-Disc set The Jackie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 (1983 – 1993), a presentation of eight classic films...
The last two years have seen Hong Kong film collectors treated to dozens of stunning physical media releases from the finest labels in...
Hidden Blade is a 2023 Chinese historical thriller directed by Cheng Er (The Wasted Times) and stars the great Tony Leung (Hard Boiled, Shang...
Project Wolf Hunting is a 2018 Korean survival horror film starring Seo In-guk (I Remember You), Jang Dong-yoon (Search), and Park Ho-san (Night in...
Head Rush (original title: Lôi Báo) is a 2018 Vietnamese sci-fi action film starring Cường Seven, Nhã Phương, and Hoàng Sơn. It screened Fantastic...
Decision to Leave is a 2022 Korean romantic mystery film directed by celebrated auteur Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) and starring Tang Wei (Lust/Caution)...
Dragons Forever is a 1988 martial arts action-comedy directed by and starring Sammo Hung (Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Mr. Nice Guy) alongside Jackie...
The Big 4 is a 2022 Indonesian action-comedy directed by Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes For Us, Headshot, Let the Devil Take You) and...
Legendary Japanese martial artist and actor Sonny Chiba remains a formidable force and an iconic star in film history. Get ready for some of...
Alienoid is a Korean science-fiction fantasy picture directed by Choi Dong-Hoon (Assassination) and starring Ryu Jun-yeol (Believer), Kim Woo-bin, and Kim Tae-ri (The Handmaiden)....