Masaki Kobayashi‘s Harakiri is my favorite chambara of all time.
I don’t say that lightly. In my estimation it ranks above Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Lone Wolf and Cub, and just about any other samurai film you’re likely to have seen…
Probably the best thing I can say about The Raid: Redemption is that it is very good at being what it is. It’s an action movie. And if your action movie has a predictable plot, undeveloped characters and a silly …
Yesterday morning I was listening to Morning Edition on NPR (as you do) when I heard this gem of a story about Seizo Fukumoto, one of chanbara’s greatest unknown actors- unknown because he was never a leading man. He was …
So my favorite Hong Kong ass-kicking actress is no longer allowed in Burma! I’ll just bet her heart is broken about it too.
Actually it probably is, because now she can’t get with Aung San Suu Kyi to ask her …
We’ve already been through the anger and grief associated with seeing Keanu “Whoa!” Reeves mentioned in connection with The 47 Ronin and a live-action Cowboy Bebop, both of which are as yet mercifully nonexistent.
But now he’s connected to the …
POP! Goes the Dead Kid
I’ve seen nearly all the famous Asian horror films. And by ‘famous’, I mean the ones that Hollywood tried to remake: The Eye, The Ring, A Tale of Two Sisters, Pulse, Dark Water. There was…
For my first post of the February Review Blitz, I’ve chosen a truly great example of twenty-first century film making. I was having shitty day a couple weeks ago, so that night I watched 2009′s Black Dynamite, and suddenly everything …
A couple notes from Anime News Network…
The much-anticipated/feared new Berserk anime project is going to be a movie. A movie covering the first part of the manga, whatever that means. Considering it took 24 episodes to cover the first …
So, the other night on Netflix I noticed there is a DVD version of John Woo’s Red Cliff that is the entire movie, unlike the chopped-down theatrical version; it’s on two discs and seems to be all 17 hours or …
Apparently some filmmakers in Bangledesh have thrown copyright to the wind (I’m guessing) and and made a Bangledeshi version of King Kong, Banglar King Kong. You could never confuse it with the original version or the Peter Jackson indulge-o-fest, though. …
I’m sincerely hoping the reporters over at io9 got some bad information, but Hollywood really is just dumb enough to do this.
Another American Godzilla Movie?!
Like they didn’t learn when the first one bombed? It’s supposed t be out …
So a couple weeks ago, I dreamed I was married to Jeff Bridges. Not Tron Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski Jeff Bridges. The Men Who Stare at Goats Jeff Bridges, Scruffy Old Jeff Bridges. Why the Hell would I dream …
