Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Critics are fond of declaring things like, “It’s the best time I had at the movies all year!” Only, when we do, it’s not supposed to be about a movie that is over 70 years old.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included with this release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. My favorite conceit of movies about authors is that they always have said authors sitting around with others of their kind making grand pronouncements about their craft and inflating what is one of the world’s most boring professions to …