"How do we promote Bullet in the Head?" "Make Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen juice oranges on TV against members of the audience! John Woo presents the winners with a 7-day package tour of Zhangjiajie, twin share!"

"How do we promote Bullet in the Head?" "Make Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen juice oranges on TV against members of the audience! John Woo presents the winners with a 7-day package tour of Zhangjiajie, twin share!"

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn

Drawings Edward Yang made of Tsai Chin while watching her perform on variety show Just Tonight

They're crowdfunding a 4K remaster of Akio Jissoji's 1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (Teito Monogatari), whose source novel was also adapted into the anime OVA Doomed Megalopolis. Rewards include a UHD Blu-ray but I doubt it'll be English-friendly. motion-gallery.net/projects/tei...

Taiwanese film producer Wu Tun has passed way. A major producer of Hong Kong-Taiwan co-productions and the films of Chu Yen-ping in the '90s, Wu was also a notorious gangster, the Bamboo Union's chief enforcer who perpetrated the infamous 1984 murder of Taiwanese author Chiang Nan on American soil.

Taiwanese film producer Wu Tun has passed way. A major producer of Hong Kong-Taiwan co-productions and the films of Chu Yen-ping in the '90s, Wu was also a notorious gangster, the Bamboo Union's chief enforcer who perpetrated the infamous 1984 murder of Taiwanese author Chiang Nan on American soil.

They're crowdfunding a 4K remaster of Akio Jissoji's 1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (Teito Monogatari), whose source novel was also adapted into the anime OVA Doomed Megalopolis. Rewards include a UHD Blu-ray but I doubt it'll be English-friendly. motion-gallery.net/projects/tei...

I'm again "Optional newly translated English subtitles" on Arrow's upcoming release of The Killer. I was constantly going backwards and revising this one because the characters evoke Woo's nostalgia for the '50s and '60s but in contradictory ways, so I kept changing my mind about specific words.

From the exp. archive, one of the very best Nintendo 3DS games, tragically inaccessible now. Attack of the Friday Monsters! (Millennium Kitchen/Aquria, 2013): expzine.com/2014/10/29/a...

Awesome to see this announced! I contributed a booklet essay about the score and Jerry Goldsmith’s collaborations with Joe Dante

Very happy to say I've contributed a booklet essay to Arrow's upcoming release of The Eye

The magic of backlight animation: that pre-digital era when artists had to light up from underneath to create lighting effects through unpainted or translucent parts of cels, backgrounds and various elements.

Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

My Nicolas Winding Refn completionism getting out of hand

New post! I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art. Get cozy, because this is a big one!

I hope you'll join me on the audio commentary getting lost in what I believe is Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's most intricate yet poignant piece of karmic cinema.

I wrote and narrated the video essay to be included in this release, a history of Johnnie To's romances.

Beyond thrilled to be able to say finally that I did the booklet essay for this, my favorite of Johnnie To’s films.

"When he was young, Hou Hsiao-hsien went to a dance hall with Edward Yang. Yang stared at one girl and said, 'Look at that girl, the miracle of a girl becoming a woman.' Yang spoke with both admiration and amazement, but Hou recounted... 'No matter how I looked, I couldn't see it.'"

Mondo Macabro announced they're releasing Hong Kong New Wave obscurity House of the Lute. We're only three days into 2026, but it's gonna take a real doozy to top this for a more significant home video release of a Hong Kong film this year.

"When he was young, Hou Hsiao-hsien went to a dance hall with Edward Yang. Yang stared at one girl and said, 'Look at that girl, the miracle of a girl becoming a woman.' Yang spoke with both admiration and amazement, but Hou recounted... 'No matter how I looked, I couldn't see it.'"

Mondo Macabro announced they're releasing Hong Kong New Wave obscurity House of the Lute. We're only three days into 2026, but it's gonna take a real doozy to top this for a more significant home video release of a Hong Kong film this year.

This was undoubtedly the best thing I got to do in 2025. May I continue to tarnish the reputation of cultural institutions around the world this year by being allowed to speak at them.

The modest stack of physical media I worked on (that came out) in 2025. Thoughts after the jump. 1/

Happy new year! Bringing this kinda perfunctory high energy to 2026.

Happy new year! Bringing this kinda perfunctory high energy to 2026.

Guess this is my top ten of 2025 (in order I watched them): 1. Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- 2. Black Bag 3. The Phoenician Scheme 4. Blue Moon 5. What Does that Nature Say to You 6. The Mastermind 7. Mirrors No.3 8. Magellan 9. It Was Just an Accident 10. One Battle After Another

Agree with the sentiments here but there's absolutely nothing wrong with a language being informal and colloquial. We need to stop being dismissive of vernacular.

despite the reputation of this episode, the director of it (Akio Jissoji) repeatedly insisted it was not an offensive portrayal but “rather, the theme which we worked on was what to do to prevent there being more bomb victims.” the writer agreed with Jissoji but it’s up to you how you feel about it

Adding almost dropping Sylvia Chang to Jackie Chan's list of crimes.

look at this sphinx just chilling in the sun

What's with the off-model Sally in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown?

Checking in on the oomfs these holidays

Continuing to translate new subtitles for the Golden Princess catalogue until I finally explode.

Johnnie To kind of denies the hotly anticipated Japanese co-production starring Tony Leung. He says he never said he was working with Tony and it was all the media, but he would like to work with him again. There's no screenplay and even filming in Japan isn't a done deal. 2/5

Johnnie To took questions from the press at the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival on Saturday: He's intent on finishing the movie starring Anson Lo he's only shot ten days so far in the last three years. He's been procrastinating, like an old man feeding birds. 1/5

Johnnie To took questions from the press at the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival on Saturday: He's intent on finishing the movie starring Anson Lo he's only shot ten days so far in the last three years. He's been procrastinating, like an old man feeding birds. 1/5

From As1 Entertainment's interview with Sammo Hung a few days ago: "I'm always saying let's make a movie... Nobody gives me the time of day! This isn't something you can force and just really wanting it is useless. Pursuing it is the right thing to do, though."

Just listened to a podcast on a Hong Kong movie and what is arguably its most iconic moment for Chinese-language audiences doesn't even get a mention. Interested in examples of this, where international audiences latch onto something completely different from domestic ones.

Just listened to a podcast on a Hong Kong movie and what is arguably its most iconic moment for Chinese-language audiences doesn't even get a mention. Interested in examples of this, where international audiences latch onto something completely different from domestic ones.

Guy pops a balloon between Hou Hsiao-hsien's legs with a blowgun blindfolded on Taiwanese variety show The Fantastic Brothers. Hou was promoting his 1997 album 'Sun'.

I wrote about Bondi for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Guy pops a balloon between Hou Hsiao-hsien's legs with a blowgun blindfolded on Taiwanese variety show The Fantastic Brothers. Hou was promoting his 1997 album 'Sun'.

An 82-year-old George Cuckor trying to pronounce 'Tsui Hark' (written as the Mandarin 'Xu Ke' on the card) before presenting Tsui with Best Director for All the Wrong Clues at the 18th Golden Horse Awards.

An 82-year-old George Cuckor trying to pronounce 'Tsui Hark' (written as the Mandarin 'Xu Ke' on the card) before presenting Tsui with Best Director for All the Wrong Clues at the 18th Golden Horse Awards.

Ella McCay made me feel I was in a simulation the whole time being watched by some unknown force as I experienced their simulacrum. The movie Marge and Lisa write together in a Simpsons ep where they see a bad movie about an idealistic young woman and think they can do better.

Keeping the theatrical experience alive by being the only person at Ella McCay at peak old people moviegoing hours.