Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: House of Flying Daggers
[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 ...
Tag: Zhang Yimou
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Review: Full River Red
Acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou may not have had a stateside hit in a long time, but he hasn’t ever stopped creating films. ...
Movies
Review: Cliff Walkers
The greatest comfort of genre films is that, if you know what you’re getting into, you can more or less assume you’re going ...
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Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: Hero
[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
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 ...
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 ...