Undeclared War
Ringo Lam’s Undeclared War (1990) finds the action film auteur bidding for the international market. Throughout the eighties the popularity of Hong Kong genre films grew steadily in western markets… Read more »
Ringo Lam’s Undeclared War (1990) finds the action film auteur bidding for the international market. Throughout the eighties the popularity of Hong Kong genre films grew steadily in western markets… Read more »
Cheap, sleazy, and totally unhinged, Erotic Nightmare (1999) could only have come from producer Wong Jing. This erotic black magic thriller is one of three films in Vinegar Syndrome’s gorgeous… Read more »
Thunderheart (1992) and its companion film Incident At Oglala (1992) were both directed by Michael Apted and fit in the vein of the filmmaker’s politically minded thrillers. While Apted’s motives… Read more »
Tsui Hark’s The Wicked City (1992) is an adaptation of the same novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi as the classic anime feature Wicked City (1987). While both films take liberties with… Read more »
While You Were Sleeping (1995) is one of those films from the “golden age” of romantic comedies that adapted the farcical plotting of screwball comedies for the nineties by populating… Read more »
Deep inside of a mountain, in an ancient Mu Temple, is a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg. Paleontologist Akiyoshi Tateno (Tsunehiko Watase) recovers the egg on an expedition and brings it… Read more »
For years now watching Metropolitan (1990) at Christmas time has been a sort of tradition for me. It isn’t explicitly a Christmas movie but because it’s set during that time… Read more »
Before breaking out with Superbad (2007) and Adventureland (2009), Greg Mottola wrote and directed the little indie comedy The Daytrippers (1997). The Daytrippers is a quintessential independent film of the… Read more »
Based upon the Rick Moody novel of the same name The Ice Storm (1997) was director Ang Lee’s second english language feature. Just as he had with Sense & Sensibility… Read more »
When it comes to holiday movies two John Hughes productions generally come to mind. For Christmas, people typically turn to Home Alone (1990) while for Thanksgiving Planes, Trains & Automobiles… Read more »