The End of Cinema

"Hardcore fans display innocent mania, but aesthetes are the dandies of fandom. They relish not merely chases and fights; they treasure...

An early supporting role for Sammo Hung as he and Angela Mao (the film's alternate title is the somewhat awesome Lady Kung Fu ) trave...

I inadvertently became a source for the biggest story of the week, as my tweet about the imminent closing of Landmark's Egyptian Thea...

After a two month baby-related hiatus, I'm back on They Shot Pictures this week to talk about Akira Kurosawa. This is the first of t...

The Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the Vancouver International Film Festival has an illustrious history. Handed o...

It's OK.

Sammo Hung's debut film as a director, while heavily steeped in the 1970s Shaw Brothers style, already shows evidence of his distinct...

This past week I finally finished the series on Paul WS Anderson and Modern Auteurism I started back in April, Army of Milla ( Part One: ...

This 1989 film once again finds Sammo Hung mixing tones in a highly unusual way, as what appears to be a light-hearted farce about human ...

More a straight comedy than any of the other Sammo Hung films I've seen, though it does contain some interesting stunts. An ...

Part Three: Resident Evil and Classical Auteurism "This is one of the problems in resolving arguments between auteurists and ...

Sammo Hung plays a regular guy whose reputation as the boldest man in town makes him susceptible to all kinds of dares, leading him to a...

This week I went to see my first-ever movie at the Seattle International Film Festival after 15 years living in the Seattle area. Johnnie...

Tsui Hark's audacious debut film is a horror mystery about killer butterflies that has more in common with Roger Corman or...

One of Sammo Hung's first films as a director, this period kung fu film is very much in the Shaw Brothers mold. It m...