In this brooding, melancholic twist on the wuxia (which has been re-edited, rescored, and color-corrected since its initial theatrical release), Wong Kar Wai delivers swordplay from time to time, but in radical fragments that refuseContinue reading

Given that his films have increasing become like live-action cartoons, it should come as little surprise that Hong Kong comedy/action auteur Stephen Chow has finally made an out-and-out children’s film, and CJ7 is exactly likeContinue reading

Bernardo Bertolucci loves grand historical sweep, and it’s on display in every element of his Oscar-snagging epic about Pu Yi, who at the age of 3 was taken from his mother and made emperor ofContinue reading