Daniel Wu

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MOVIE REVIEW . The Heavenly Kings

by Kris   ⋅   July 18, 2007   ⋅   Comments [4]

A determined Daniel Wu walks at a heightened pace through a modern building’s corridor towards a fated elevator. As he puts on his most serious face, info screens à la Power Point cut in, informing us that in 1995, the Hong Kong music industry revenue was $1.68 billion, and in 2005 even though 40 [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS [In Brief] . Space Battleship Yamato, Naked Weapon, The Holy Mountain

by Chris   ⋅   June 8, 2007   ⋅   Comments [2]

So this weekend is going to be a bit overly busy, so a full length film review is pretty much out of the question. In exchange, I offer these horse-capsule reviews. Note, for those of you repeatedly searching for Linda, Linda, Linda, I’ll have you covered in a week or so.
Space Battleship Yamato [...]

DVD REVIEW . Chiseen

by Kris   ⋅   February 7, 2007   ⋅   Comment now

Let me tell you about ABCs. No, not the alphabet, the acronym. It stands for “American Born Chinese” and Daniel Wu is one of the most famous ABC actors of the bunch. Like my brief idolatry of Kiefer Sutherland’s fearless punky vampire leader in Lost Boys, I had a thing for Daniel [...]

Best and Worst Films 2006 *UPDATED*

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   January 1, 2007   ⋅   Comments [9]

We’re back again with our best and worst lists for the year. Once again, our criteria for Best Film status were the films that we truly felt we would watch again. For the nitpickers out there, some of the pictures listed played in their native countries at the tail end of 2005, but weren’t seen [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . The Banquet (aka: Ye yan)

by Chris   ⋅   December 26, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

If you have even the most rudimentary interest in Chinese Art cinema, you might be wondering where all the intelligent pictures have gone. The Raise the Red Lanterns have been replaced with Flying Daggers, the Farewelling Concubines with flying bird women. Well, now, with Xiaogang Feng’s The Banquet you have something to look forward [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Rob-B-Hood

by Chris   ⋅   December 6, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

As much as I hate “it’s like film x meets film y” type proclamations, I feel compelled to do it with Rob-B-Hood. I mean, the film’s premise is so simple that such superficial comparisons prove quite apt. Rob-B-Hood sees Jackie Chan and Yuen Bio as thieves tasked with kidnapping an upper-crust society baby for a [...]

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