Like I repeat over and over, its no big secret Hong Kong films have been on a steady decline lately. The Beast Stalker, however, breaks out in a big way with a movie that has all the best elements of a great Hong Kong action film. The Beast Stalker is a long, slow, grimly humorless [...]

Although Protégé is a gangster flick, it is not an action movie. Rather, it’s a closely examined character study. Daniel Wu plays Nick, the next-in-line to a massive heroine empire. His mentor, Lin Quin (Andy Lau), has taught Nick everything he can about the trade. Meanwhile, the young man gets caught up with Jane, a [...]

Tokyo! is a loosely connected trilogy from three different directors. The Host’s [review] Bong Joon-ho’s “Shaking Tokyo” is about a hoarder hermit looking for love; Michel Gondry’s [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind] “Interior Design” is about a sweet, film-obsessed couple whose lives take on characteristics of the movies they watch and make; and lastly, [...]

The Korean-produced, shot-in-China epic The Legend of the Shadowless Sword, might seem generic on the surface but it’s actually pretty good. As with most of these things, the tale takes place in the ancient past, and characters and events appear based on myth and legend. After the fall of the Korean capital in the year [...]

According to legend, there are 666 paranormal portals on the planet Earth, each one a doorway to another, often dangerous, dimension. In the rural woods of Japan stands #444, smack dab in the middle of the Forest of Resurrection. Prisoner KSG-301 along with his cell mate escape while being transferred which has been set up [...]

Blood: The Last Vampire’s live-action film adaptation opened in Japan on May 29th, which made the leak online a lot easier to obtain for an early viewing. Going into it, so far, the film hasn’t managed to gain any major praise from critics so early hopes for this film aren’t nearly as high as they [...]

Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov has fashioned a compelling drama about the forces and circumstances that shaped the life of legendary warrior Genghis Khan. Shot on locations in Kazakhstan and the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, the story conveys the eerie beauty and the chilling terror of the steppes that nomadic communities roamed during the [...]