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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual signatures of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, ...
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 ...
Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...
No one does it like John Woo. The influential action film director boasts a singular style, where bullets fly in slow-motion, shoot-outs take on an operatic quality, and multiple cameras hone in on a ...
Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...
For years, Nintendo largely avoided Hollywood adaptations of its properties, and a lot of that hesitation apparently came from Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto. In a new interview with the ...