This past month, on the Criterion Channel, they had this excellent retrospective of Hong Kong action movies, which sent me ...

It's also the best Hong Kong movie for decades in its celebration of a lost Hong Kong, not just in nostalgia for action movies when Hong Kong made the best, most unpredictable, and outrageous action ...

Hong Kong’s action cinema of the 1980s and ’90s featured some of the most ambitious filmmakers, charismatic stars, and memorable set pieces of any era of moviemaking anywhere. But for the last 20 ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As awards season begins to take shape, this week the New York Film Festival announced its ...

Lionsgate has acquired The Furious, a feature in the style of Hong Kong action filmmaking’s golden age, which premiered to ...

There are plenty of great action movies from all over the world, and some of the best don't even come from American studios. While many American action movies from the past feature big gunplay and ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...