GREAT ORIENTAL EPICS TO CONCLUDE THE YEAR

LEGENDARY AMAZONS

“Legendary Amazons” which was formerly titled “Lady Generals of The Yang Family”, is based on a famous Chinese opera set in the Song Dynasty. When the men of the Yang Clan were massacred in battle, the women, from elderly grandmother to little sisters, put on armor and led the army to victory. A Yang family daughter-in-law, Mu Guiying, is a celebrated woman warrior in Chinese folklore. Directing the movie will be Frankie Chan (The prodigal Son, Outlaw Brothers) who has also worked on a few Jackie Chan movies back in the day, also Jackie is producing this movie. Plays Mu Guiying is Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung while

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GET READY FOR SOME ASIAN FALL MOVIE RELEASES

SEEDIQ BALE

Director Wei Te-sheng's epic “Seediq bale" aka "Warriors of the Rainbow” will represent Taiwan in the foreign-language film category at the 84th Academy Awards, and the most expensive film in Taiwan's history, which portray a 1930 uprising by aboriginal Seediq warriors against the Japanese when Taiwan was colonized, has just been premiered at Venice Film Festival.
The film, set in 1930s Formosa (now Taiwan) tells the true story of the Wushe Incident in which Seediq tribe warrior Mouna Rudo led his people to rebel against the Japanese occupation.

During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were

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IT’S TIME FOR THE IMMORTALS TO FIGHT FOR GREEK EPICS IMMORTALITY

A hyper-stylized R-rated action film with bold speeches, beautiful women, angry men, angrier Gods and a whole lot of violence, “Immortals”, is ready to bring the latest epic war between ancient Greek Gods at theaters everywhere this fall. Looks like it falls between “300” and “Clash of the Titans”, which can be a good thing, the film was directed by Tarsem Singh who is most well known for his fantastic visual style in his two previous features—“The Cell” and “The Fall”—music videos, and commercial work. Visually, Tarsem says the film will be

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INTRIGUE AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUNDS IN YE OLDE ANONYMOUS

There have been and still arguments that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Suggestions of other authors and doubt actually begins during Shakespeare's life and for many years some people have doubted, from what we know of the actor's life, that he would have been able to write the plays and poems, and may therefore have served as a 'front' for a hidden author. Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. Now, the cinema’s most

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Witness the Tragic Love and Incredible Life of The Lady

Shot under a veil of secrecy due to the sensitive nature of its subject, "The Lady," an inspiring drama based on the life of the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, has finally finished filming and is ready to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month, also expected to be screened at a number of international film festivals in the fall before widely release in theaters everywhere. Inspired by one of the greatest love stories set against a background of political turmoil that still continues to this day, “The Lady” is the extraordinary story of how Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris gave up their happiness at great cost when the wife's country called upon her. Yet despite

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When a Samurai Seek an Honorable End in Hara-kiri Way

Takashi Miike’s “Thirteen Assassins” remake has widely considered as one of Japan’s best films of 2010, therefore, the director is back with another effort to remake another classic in Japan’s movie history. This time, Miike’s target is the 1963 Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Award winner “Harakiri” (Japanese: Seppuku) directed by acclaimed filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi. Miike’s new film originally titled “Ichimei” in Japan language that loosely translated as “A Life”, a complete contradictory to the international release title “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai”, right? The 1962 film itself was actually an adaptation of “Ibun rônin-ki” novel written by Yasuhiko Takiguchi about an out of work samurai who wants to commit seppuku

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The Thing You Fear the Most is Now Among You

Because the producers think John Carpenter's cult classic “The Thing” was already perfect, so making a remake would be like "painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa", they convinced Universal Studios to allow them to create a prequel to that film which actually a remake of 1951’s film “The Thing from Another World”. Question is why they don’t think to make a sequel instead as the original film is let loose on nearby New Zealand? However, this prequel still gonna use the title of the original film since the prequel project team couldn't think of a subtitle (for example, "The Thing: Begins") that sounded good and felt reverential. Adapted from a 1938 science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. that was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written, Carpenter's “The Thing” was a

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Some Says Dream House isn’t Always Perfect House

Directed by six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot,” “In the Name of the Father”), starred by Hollywood heavyweights: Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, Oscar nominee Naomi Watts and the 007 agent himself, Daniel Craig, this upcoming horror film called “Dream House” sounds pretty first rate. The film scripted by David Loucka—best known for ancient pics like the Michael Keaton comedy “The Dream Team” and the Whoopi Goldberg basketball movie “Eddie”— is at base a big love story, but on top of that, it's a genre horror story. Yet on top of that, it's a psychological thriller. “There's a lot of strands to keep in the air," Sheridan explained. "But I'm happy enough with it. It will be a

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Commemorate the Centenary of Jackie Chan and Xinhai Revolution

Jackie Chan movies are often characterized by three things: Exciting martial arts fights, stunts that are not for the faint of heart, and comedy. The world’s most famous martial arts actor, director and stuntman, he is famous for doing most of his own stunts as well as acting in and producing some of the best martial arts action films of all time. Since began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films “Fist of Fury” (1972) and “Enter the Dragon” (1973) to “Drunken Master” that finally propelled him to mainstream success, Chan has both directed and starred in a string of international hits, delivered to

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Haunters: Offers Something Different to Superhero Genre

South Korean film "Haunters" aka “Psychich”, directed by debutante filmmaker Kim Min-suk, features a unique and intriguing story about a duel between two men, one with a supernatural power who can control people with his eyes and another is the only person who can’t be affected

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Sacrifice: Showing that Chen Kaige has Clearly Lost the Touch

One of the most famous members of China’s Fifth Generation of film directors, Chen Kaige shot a signature in his career with “Farewell My Concubine” in 1993. The film taken home the grand prize at Cannes and successfully

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A Better Tomorrow: Renewal Not Always Reinstate the Dignity

In 1986, Hong Kong crime action flick "A Better Tomorrow" has acquired international attention for director John Woo and redefined the Pearl of the Orient cinema. The story of a cruel twist of fate between two brothers later even initiating what

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127 Hours: Compelling Story of Survival and Reflection

Just like “The Fighter”, Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” is also based on a true story which some peoples may already knew how the tale gonna end. But other than that, “127 Hours” would seem a more impossible prospect for a cinematic experience as the focus will

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The Fighter: A Boxing Movie with Oscar Written All Over It

Inspired by the remarkable true-life story of a champion welterweight boxer “Irish” Micky Ward and his erratic brother, Dicky Eklund, a former welterweight whose career was KO’d by crack, director David O. Russell’s affecting sports drama “The Fighter” done really

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True Grit: Best in the Genre Since Unforgiven

Some people have wondered why Joel and Ethan Coen decided to remake the 1969 movie "True Grit" that starred John Wayne, especially since there have been so few westerns in recent years. When we see the new movie however, we’ll understand the Coens desire to do the remake. But for the

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Black Swan: Psychological Thriller at Its Most Unique Form

The legend of the Swan-Maiden goes back for centuries, appearing in differing forms in both eastern and western literature. Women who turn into birds and vice versa were popular themes, and the swan was particularly favored due to

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Tron Legacy: Give it a Go for the Virtual Wonderland

Back in ’82, Steven Lisberger directed a futuristic sci-fi movie with the title “Tron”, a considerably cult movie that still have a substantial following eventhough most of them were in silence until the computer game commercial director, Joseph Kosinski, fashioned a rather extraordinary promo as a proof of concept at

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I Saw the Devil: Yet Another Fine Revenge Flick of South

Why most of South Korean filmmakers were so fluent in tackling revenge theme movies? Is it because the country has been long suffered by the intimidation of ‘you-know-who’? From the ultimate collection of master revenge himself, Park Chan-Wook, which

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The Escape was Just the Beginning for The Way Back

The Gulag, whose camps were located mainly in remote regions of Siberia and the Far North, made significant contributions to the Soviet economy in the period of Joseph Stalin. Gulag prisoners constructed the White Sea-Baltic Canal, the Moscow-Volga Canal, the Baikal-Amur main

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Dream Home: Effective Blend of Pure Slasher and Black Humor

The slasher is one infamously most fashioned types of horror movies around today, since it taps into the most basic fear of being hunted by someone trying to kill you and however some people are prefer seeing a heck ton of blood, guts, and mucus oozing all over the place. But what a good

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