Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan reprise their roles from the hit Shanghai Noon, as ladies’ man cowboy Roy O’Bannon and former Chinese Imperial guard, now Old West sheriff, Chon Wang. Chon’s father has been killed in China by a hissingly evil stranger (Aiden Gillen, with a single strand of his disheveled curly locks out of …
Hero is perhaps the most astonishingly beautiful-looking movie I have ever seen. EVER? (you may ask) Yes, EVER. To put it bluntly, I was simply stunned while sitting through this film. I don’t think I was the only one, because the theater was strangely silent during the film. I think everyone has stopped breathing, like …
Anyone who knows me knows that I love Wong Kar Wai’s films. If anything, he is always interesting, and his films are most certainly always gorgeous looking. The Grandmaster is no exception. But it is interesting to see him tackle a story as seemingly straightforward as a martial arts epic and add his signature arty …
Enter the Dragon is supposedly the ultimate Bruce Lee film. The movie made him an international superstar (he was already huge in Hong Kong), but he didn’t get to bask in the glory. Tragically he died at the age of 32, days before the film’s big premiere. It is also considered his best film (please …
For those unversed in the world of The Last Airbender (like myself), this is what I roughly figured out from the film. The movie is based on a Nickelodeon animated TV series called Avatar: The Last Airbender. The world is very multi-racial with a heavy-Asian theme as it takes place in a world of four …
When 12-year-old Dre Parker (Smith) and his mom (Taraji P. Henson) pack up their lives in Detroit and move to China – for reasons that are never fully explained – the pint-sized American becomes the target for bullying by a gang of preteen thugs at his school. Led by the ferocious, pitbull-like Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), …