John Woo is to Hou Hsiao-hsien what action movies are to contemplative journeys through the dismal abyss that we call life. And I’m feeling happy today! Anyway, put another way, John Woo got $85 million to make The Red Cliff and Hou got $2.6 million for his first martial arts movie, The Assassin. The Taiwanese …

While everyone was running out like little lemmings to see The Dark Knight, I was locked in my basement rewatching Fellini movies. Lemmings I say! Indecipherable Italian movies is art at its best. Are art at the best? Anyway…
According to Variety, The Good, the Bad, the Weird rang up the second fastest ticket sales ever …

So many films get lost in the abyss without distribution. Even when you get someone to spread the word, grabbing attention is hard to do. Thankfully, Ping Pong Playa, a solid comedy that’s been out for a year now, was picked up by IFC Films. Read more about it here. According to Hyphen Blog, they’ve …

Radical Comics has a comic out called “Caliber” which sets the legend of King Arthur in the American Old West. From the Radical Comics website:
The Knights of the Round Table are all gunslingers bound by a code of honor to protect the weak and defend the innocent until they are undone from within by their …

Never heard of Shanghai? Chomp on this.
“Shanghai,” an Asian “Casablanca,” stars [John] Cusack as an American spy who comes to Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II to investigate the death of a friend.
While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he stumbles across a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
He also becomes …

Question: This actress was among the first generation of Asian entertainers to gain entry into the American collective consciousness. Answer: Who is Michelle Yeoh? Glad you asked. Michelle Yeoh can be seen “acting” in upcoming movies with Brendan Fraser and Vin Diesel. The term “acting” is used quite liberally when your movies involve the lead …