Chuan Lu’s “Mountain Patrol” is truly extraordinary in many ways, not least in the incredible real-life hardships endured by the cast and crew during the filmmaking process. The film was actually shot on location in the remote Hoh Kil (Kekexili) region, which lies across the borders...

(Movie Review by Edward Lee) Love drives human beings wild. Ever since the first two people fell in love, love has been full of equal parts splendor and monotony, passion and indifference, sanity and danger, and loyalty and treachery. Despite what love does — despite how attached we grow to one...

Zhang Yimou, coming off “Hero”, his most internationally acclaimed and successful film to date, now brings us another martial arts epic set in ancient China. “House of Flying Daggers” stars Andy Lau (”Infernal Affairs”) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (”Returner”)...

If John Wayne was still alive and making movies about the divine might of the U.S. of A., he would probably make something like Ping He’s “Warriors of Heaven and Earth”, which is, in a nutshell, about the divine might of China. To be sure, “Warriors” is an entertaining movie...

“South Park” once did an episode where they made fun of Sports Movie cliché, including the biggest clich’ of the genre, the inevitable Big Game (or Big Fight or Big Race, etc.). The second biggest clich’ is the Montage Sequence, where our hero achieves great strides in his chosen...

Much of your ability to appreciate the finer points of Zhang Yimou’s “Hero” depends on your knowledge of Chinese culture and history. This doesn’t mean those of us completely unaware of the country’s monumental struggle to unite itself under one kingdom, or the zen-ish notion...

I must admit that the Chinese film “So Close to Paradise” surprised me. At first I found the film to be lacking and uninteresting and its acting to be spotty at times. But as the film progressed, its story drew me in, and its characters became people I could believe in and feel for. The film...