This past month, on the Criterion Channel, they had this excellent retrospective of Hong Kong action movies, which sent me down a rabbit hole of trying to find the best ones. I have to say, as an ...

There’s a scene early on in John Woo’s Bullet in the Head (1990) that remains one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen are having a teary-eyed breakup ...

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, as ...