Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
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Movies
Zhang Yimou’s spy thriller Impasse gets its first trailer
Master filmmaker Zhang Yimou is positively unrelenting, with the first trailer for spy thriller Impasse released to tease its 2020 release to Chinese cinemas. This ...
Movies
China’s second re-opened box-office weekend shows continued growth
After last week’s triumphant re-opening of movie theaters in China, it seems like the momentum isn’t dying down anytime soon. For its second ...
Featured
Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: The Big Boss
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
Movies
Chinese box office shows signs of life in first weekend of “new” releases
While the state of theaters in the United States is, well, a complete and utter mess, this past weekend marked the largest-scale reopening ...
25 years later, Shanghai Triad is still a unique take on the gangster genre
By the mid-90s, the “Gangster Film” had become a pretty overstuffed genre in the film industry. Around for practically as long as films ...
Featured
Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
News
One last delay is in store for Mulan, now set for a late August debut
In a shocking turn of events that anyone with half of a brain could have seen coming, Disney has decided to delay its ...
Features
Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: 7 Grandmasters
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
Movies
Review: The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake is the kind of movie you’re probably going to know you’ll enjoy before we even see the first shot. ...
Review: Tigertail
There’s a sense of catharsis that only a story about memory can bring. Being invited into the most-intimate part of a person’s existence, ...
News
Hong Kong will begin reopening cinemas as coronavirus cases start to decline
The future is looking bright for Hong Kong cinephiles. City officials announced yesterday that theaters in the area would start to reopen this ...