I am criminally late with this review, but I wanted to get it posted while it still may have some relevance.I went into this film prepared to hate it. I'd seen Rob B Hood and Shinjuku Incident and was ready to swear off Mr. Chan in perpetuity.
I'm glad I didn't, because LittleBig Soldier/大兵小將 is Jackie's best film in a long time.
It's funny, witt...Read more
I watch movies so you don't have to.
The best thing I can say about this travesty is that it makesAll's Well Ends Well 2010and72 Tenants of Prosperityseem like cinematic treasures by comparison.They were good movies. Until tonight. Now they're magnificent. Here Comes Fortune//财神到is so astoundingly bad that you can't believe it.Until it gets worse.
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I realize that my bad reviews get done much faster than my good ones. So if there's a current movie that you're wondering how I feel about because I haven't put up a review, just tell yourself that silence is golden. When I like a movie, I take much too long to write about it.
Like this oneHot Summer Days/(全城熱戀熱辣辣)is the first feature-length film from Read more
I logged into AnD this morning to discover that Warner Hodges, my best friend in the world, has joined AnD!
As I previously noted, Warner's Dad just recently passed away, and it bothered me that I couldn't be there for the services. The only bad part about living here is being so far away from some of the people who mean the most to me.
So please go to his page and say hello. If we can get him to blog even occasionally about...Read more
June 2009My best friend Warner's father, Edgar, passed away.
Edgar WadsworthHodges -80, Born February 23, 1930, in LaGrange, NC, to Eva Mae and Enoch Hodges. Edgar passed peacefully at home February 16, 2010, attended by h...Read more
Wishing everyone at Alive Not Dead and elsewhere a happy, prosperous, & healthy Year of the Tiger恭喜發財(Kung Hei Fat Choy)
If you can read this, it means I have yet to be disappeared because of my14 Blades review. Well, in a related issue, I am going to make this a double film review. Because the only good, fair thing to do is treatTrue Legend/蘇乞兒as two films. My reasons will become clear, and I ask your indulgence.Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cinema, the Gang of Film(電影人幫)is once again loo...Read more
Donnie Yen only needs one blade.
That blade is Donnie Yen.Last night the Gang of Film (電影人幫) continued the Lunar New Year Marathon with14 Blades/錦衣衛, the latest offering from sexy, flexy, Donnie Yen: There is no global warming. Donnie Yen is just th...Read more
In an effort to be more timely and potentially helpful/supportive of local films and the people making them, I will try to get my reviews done faster. As a consequence, they will be somewhat shorter.
Unless it's a movie that sucks and I don't want you to watch it. Then I'll take lots of time and energy to thoroughly and meticulously disparage it.
But on to the new review format!
In an effort to be more timely and potentially helpful/supportive of local films and the people making them, I will try to get my reviews done faster. As a consequence, they will be somewhat shorter.
Unless it's a movie that sucks and I don't want you to watch it. Then I'll take lots of time and energy to thoroughly and meticulously disparage it.
But on to the new review format!
If we don't support the movies that deserve it, we get the movies that we deserve.