John Woo’s The Killer
The Killer (1989) was John Woo‘s breakthrough movie in the West. It was not a commercial success at home and ironically Woo had some...
Author: Simon Gelten
John Woo’s Better Tomorrow Trilogy
When you think of Hong Kong movies of times past, John Woo‘s bullet opera classics feature rather prominently. Aside from Shaw Brothers martial arts...
Better Watch Out
It will be scary this Christmas … If you don’t like Christmas, you can always watch a horror movie. There are quite a few...
Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water opens with a scene of two masked men holding up a small bank. It’s the first of a string of...
City Heat
City Heat – Fedora hats, moustaches and an empty briefcase It is said that this film was born out of the desire of both...
Aliens
Rewatching Old Favorites – The Alien Quadrology: Part II – ALIENS (1986, Director: James Cameron) The premise of the first movie, a crew trapped...
The Dark Valley – Das Finstere Tal
In the heydays of the spaghetti western, Sergio Corbucci shot a couple of westerns in the Alpes, notably The Great Silence and The Specialists....
Alien
Rewatching Old Favorites – The Alien Quadrology: Part I – ALIEN (1979, Director: Ridley Scott) Christmas time is a great time to rewatch old...
Spectre
The latest James Bond “Spectre” opens with a scene set in Mexico City. Our hero, wearing a rather bizarre ‘skeleton suit’, is attending a...
Bruce Lee vs James Bond – The film that never was
Stoner (1974, Huang Feng) is a Kung Fu movie with a truly stunning production history. It was meant to be a (sort of) sequel...
