The director’s 1989 Hong Kong action touchstone is a wild melding of maximalist violence and surreal sentimentality – with added harmonica ...
Watch the trailer for Arrow Video's new 4K UHD restoration and remaster of John Woo's 1989 action classic 'The Killer.' ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Woo’s Hong Kong swan song (or white dove song) Hard Boiled checks all the boxes to be one of the best ‘90s action movies, and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Woo, seen at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, considers "A Better Tomorrow" his first auteur movie. Photo by Ettore Ferrari/EPA ...
Some people think remakes have to be as good as or even better than the original to be worth making, but that’s a high bar and it’s covered in vaseline. All a remake actually has to do is justify its ...
Hong Kong auteur John Woo is back working in Hollywood for the first time since 2003’s “Paycheck” with Christmas actioner “Silent Night,” in which the influential director of classics “Hard Boiled,” ...
Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Zack Snyder are considered the godfathers of pulpy action in the West, but each owes something to John Woo. The Hong Kong filmmaker was a legend in the ‘80s and ...
Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung face off in a wildly inventive film whose hospital shootout remains one of cinema’s most irresistible set pieces ...
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As awards season begins to take shape, this week the New York Film Festival announced its ...
In a vacuum, “Silent Night” seems like any number of action movies about non-superheroic and (either implicitly or explicitly) paternally-inspired one-man killing machines. Joel Edgerton plays a ...
The actor stars in the director's first American film in 20 years, a revenge thriller featuring virtually no dialogue. By Frank Scheck When it comes to action movies, dialogue is highly overrated.
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