After the success of Brett Ratner’s 1998 action comedy "Rush Hour, " New Line quickly made plans to follow up the meeting of East and West with a sequel. Part of the challenge was of course to bring Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan and Chris [...]
Not since Bruce Lee’s "Enter The Dragon" has a Martial Arts film seen as much notoriety as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Sadly the time was not right for the legendary Bruce Lee in the 70s and his films never managed to break [...]
Films concerning athletic events have to be considered one of the most enduring genres in the world of movies. Despite some recent box-office disappointments ("Summer Catch"…anyone?), Hollywood continues to churn out more sports movies [...]
Over the years, movies have taught us that it’s hard to keep for an angry, vengeful spirit to remain at rest. We’ve always learned that you can’t keep a money-making character from returning to the screen. With those two theories in mind, we tackle [...]
Since "The Storm Riders" has conquered the Hong Kong box office some time ago, it has not only revived theatrical revenues in Hong Kong in general, as expected – and hoped for – it has also brought forth a number of films that put [...]
Tsui Hark is surely one of the finest directors to come out of the frenetic world of Hong Kong cinema. While his foray into Hollywood action films toward the end of the 1990s met with the same grisly fate as most Jean-Claude Van Damme star vehicles, the [...]
After Artisan’s release of the Ultimate Edition of James Cameron’s "Terminator 2" everyone’s eyes were directed towards the original film, "The Terminator." Released in 1997 as a bare-bones DVD of mediocre quality, fans of the [...]
There has been a lot of talk lately concerning media violence and censorship. Hollywood has been under the scrutiny of the government and there has been a general trend in movies and television to pull in the reins on violent material. Given all of the [...]
Jackie Chan must be one of the busiest actors in the world. Appearing in movies that are produced in Hollywood and Hong Kong, while also producing various films in both parts of the world, while all the while living in Canada, it makes you wonder, if [...]
"Batman: The Movie" was certainly the least likely film to be released on DVD as a Special Edition, but fortunately a group of fans within 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment directly lobbied the movie, and here we have it the "Holy Special [...]
