China Film Journal

華語電影刊

Things tagged as action.

John Woo: Red Cliff must go on…

Posted on June 11th by peijin.
Browsing Eachnet for headlines I came across some news regarding an accidental fire on the set of John Woo's upcoming historical action film Red Cliff. One person died and six were ...
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Movie Review:The Forbidden Kingdom (功夫之王)

Posted on May 2nd by peijin.
This self-orientalizing piece of crap has a few good moments. Since they are few and far between, we'll just tell you what they are. Li Bing Bing plays the white-haired witch, ...
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The new Le Cercle Rouge, Ang Lee’s autobiography and other movie news

Posted on April 17th by peijin.
Fans of French film might be interested to know that Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 classic Le Cercle Rouge (starring Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte and Yves Montand) is being ...
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Movie Review:Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon 《见龙卸甲》

Posted on April 14th by peijin.
None of the recent wuxia martial art epics can seem to avoid the the endemic schlockiness of the genre, so as a viewer we are just content to find one ...

Video: Jackie Chan’s family in Anhui province

Posted on March 12th by peijin.
So you might have heard that Jackie Chan recently went to Australia to bury his father, who died of cancer at the age of 93.Well, what you might not have known ...