Mortal Kombat is the full-length martial arts movie version of the video game that most parents were condemning a few years back. You know the game...that's the one where your…
One of the most colorful and stylish martial arts movies of the end-of-the-year season is Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, his wire-fu followup to Hero. This is a movie…
“It’s never wrong to strike first,” says Mr. Lau’s Hou, a warlord in early Republican China whose Machiavellian scheming leads him to disaster. Hou finds refuge at the Shaolin temple,…
If you thought the only real place for gravity-defying fight scenes was The Matrix, you are wrong. One of the most diverse filmmakers today Ang Lee has not only found…
Jackie Chan was in Beijing on September 3 for the closing ceremony of the first Dragon’s Heart Summer Camp. The camp was part of Jackie’s Dragon's Heart Charity, which aids…
Bunraku is one of the strangest films I’ve seen in 2011. Highly stylized and set in a post-apocalyptic world constructed out of constantly folding origami (!), it tells the story…
An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan (Tom Hardy) returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father (Nick Nolte), a recovered alcoholic and his former coach,…