Two Evil Eyes
In 1990, a horror anthology movie came out that re-united two grand masters of the genre: Dario Argento (Opera) and George A. Romero (The...
Psycho II – How Awful about Norman Bates
Psycho II begins with the Bates Motel sign switching to ‘Vacancy’ and the famous shower sequence from its predecessor playing out in all its...
The Trouble with Norman Bates – Hitchcock’s Psycho
Works of fiction have a way of disassociating from reality and creating their own worlds. There is a distance between real world and make-believe...
The Suspect
The Suspect is not an arthouse action movie in the style of A Bittersweet Life (Jee-woon Kim, 2005) or The Man from Nowhere (Jeong-beom...
Tae Guk Gi (Brotherhood / The Brotherhood of War)
My one year sojourn in Korea gave me a chance to experience Korean culture and movies first hand. Koreans are quite movie crazy, and...
The Man from Nowhere
Not the movie from the brothers, but a Korean action movie from 2010 that was immensely successful on the home market. It made a...
Parting words: Ennio Morricone
“Ennio Morricone‘s passed away” read the text from my friend. As I woke up from slumber, I didn’t have too many thoughts racing my...
Criterion announces absolutely insane Bruce Lee BluRay collection
Yes, those in the know have suspected or known this for a while, but yesterday Criterion, by some measure the world’s most upscale home...
Heroes Shed No Tears
Heroes Shed No Tears (Ying xiong wu lei) is a 1986 actioner by John Woo, and probably among his least well known films. Woo’s...
Underwater
One-part Alien another part The Meg, Underwater is a deep-sea thriller: what exactly lives seven miles under the sea—and what business do we have...
