Tag: "martial arts"

Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
0 Comments. 2,307 Views. Posted 5 Jan 2012 @ 12:26pm.
Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate is a follow up of sorts to Tsui Hark’s 1992 martial arts film New Dragon Gate, which itself was a reworking of King Hu's 1966 martial arts film Dragon Gate Inn. The film is set in ancient China, during the Ming dynasty, a time the country was still divided into separate kingdoms ruled by warlords who were at odds with each other. There were palace intrigues, power... Read More
Priest
1 Comments. 787 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 5:27pm.
Unlike the recent Cowboys And Aliens, which combined two popular genres in an entertaining mash-up, Priest somehow is a rather dour and visually ugly hybrid of the western and horror genres. It is also an eminently unpleasant, chaotic, disappointing and forgettable piece of cinema. Priest follows the template of the John Wayne classic The Searchers, but this futuristic action film is set in a... Read More
Sucker Punch
0 Comments. 1,064 Views. Posted 15 Apr 2011 @ 11:32am.
Zack Snyder’s latest visceral slice of insanity is like an adolescent’s wet dream. If it’s not the giant samurai, steampunk World War I soldiers, dragons and slinky robots, it’s the bordello dream world a young woman imagines to escape the horrors of a 1960s mental asylum. A proto-feminist fantasy wrapped in video-game iconography, Sucker Punch also called on Aussie rising stars Emily Browning... Read More
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