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Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004) Movie Review
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...
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Zhou Yu’s Train (2002) Movie Review
(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...
Read More »House of Flying Daggers (2004) Movie Review
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”)...
Read More »Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003) Movie Review
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...
Read More »Xanda (2003) Movie Review
“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...
Read More »Hero (2003) Movie Review
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...
Read More »So Close to Paradise (1998) Movie Review
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...
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