(Bumping this review before the film screens as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, 14/11/09 at 4am as part of the Night of the Dead event, and again 15/11/09 at 2pm. While I wasn't blown away, I...

Time for a bit of excitement about Teddy Chen's Bodyguards And Assassins?  Why, yes, I think it is.  The massive scale epic which saw an enormous full scale replica of turn of the century Hong Kong built in mainland...

It was back in 2006 when we first (rather jokingly) reported about the possibility of a Korean remake for John Woo's 1986 classic 英雄本色 (A Better Tomorrow), after producers Fingerprint bought the remake rights at Cannes. And what do you...

[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for his preview of San Francisco's animation festival in progress.] By and large, animation gets a bum rap. The average filmgoer long ago decided that the medium catered either to kids or art house... More >>

Ha... That's timing.I was just discussing in the comment section of my review that a Bluray release for Park Chan-Wook's wonderful 박쥐 (Thirst) would happen down the line, and it's indeed happening, much sooner than you'd think. DVD Times just...

I do believe this makes it official:  Jackie Chan views his western fans as little more than a perpetual cash cow to be milked of as much money as possible. Chan now has a well established pattern of simply...

Ohh... pretty. Sina just released five new posters for Daniel Lee's upcoming Ming dynasty actioner 錦衣衛 (14 Blades), featuring the top five characters - Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Wu Chun of Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit, Qi Yuwu and Kate Tsui....

Can't get enough of attractive Asian women with great big guns doing battle with giant creatures?  Well, here's a bit more from Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls, then.  The production is favoring slightly tamer art than this for the US...

It was back in March when word first broke that there would be another live adaptation of the short story Toli o Kakeru Shojo [The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]. Then it got quiet until today. Thanks to NipponCinema...

What if getting what you want was the actual cause of your own damnation?And there is no need to go into the philosophical (at least right away), but fact is that the last six years of Park Chan-Wook's career have...