by Niels Matthijs, October 11, 2011 5:21 AM
When Peter Chan (Warlords, Perhaps Love) announced he was making a new film called Wu Xia starring Donnie Yen, fans were beyond ecstatic. But before long it became clear that Chan wasn't making just another big budget martial arts flick,...
by Guillem Rosset, October 10, 2011 3:05 PM
It's been a while since we last saw Tony Ching - or Ching Siu-tung, if you prefer - directing a movie. And being someone with such an impressive filmography, both as director and martial arts choreographer, it's easy to...
by Todd Brown, October 10, 2011 1:58 PM
After a long career as what could most charitably be termed a journeyman director could Daniel Lee finally be on the rise? Martial arts fans have long known Lee as the director of Jet Li's Black Mask, a film...
by James Marsh, October 7, 2011 8:41 PM
We have been keeping an eye on this one for some time now. Hong Kong's most prominent action director, Dante Lam, has been upping the ante with each successive film over the past few years, and his latest, THE VIRAL...
by J Hurtado, October 5, 2011 12:01 PM
We first reported on James Lee's Petaling Street Warriors back in April, and the outlook was sort of "meh". Recently, however, the first teaser of the Malaysian action comedy, starring musician Namewee among others, is actually somewhat promising.The press in...
by Todd Brown, October 4, 2011 2:56 PM
Sold. Absolutely, 100% sold. The second trailer for Wong Ching-Po's upcoming Hong Kong action picture Let's Go! has just arrived and it does so many things so very, very right that it's hard to imagine it not ending up...
by J Hurtado, October 4, 2011 12:30 AM
[US readers are reminded that Detective Dee is in limited theatrical release in the US RIGHT NOW and this is a film that greatly benefits from being seen in as large a format as possible. Watch Andy Lau punch a...
by Todd Brown, October 3, 2011 3:31 PM
Who would have thought that the director of the grim Revenge: A Love Story would turn out to have such a crazy sense of humor and fondness for pyrotechnics?Director Wong Ching-Po reunites with his Revenge star Juno Mak for...
by Todd Brown, October 3, 2011 12:45 AM
[Updated with embedded trailer.]It's very easy to poke fun at Ong Bak director Prachya Pinkaew's films for their simplistic and repetitive storylines. He's done the same basic thing three times now, after all - bad guys steal important object,...
by Todd Brown, September 30, 2011 8:33 PM
Well, you can consider that a rousing 'Mission Accomplished!' for director Kevin Tancharoen. Evidently unsatisfied with a career spent directing things like Fame and the Glee concert movie and a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat video game series,...