Blu-ray Review: True Legend
Yuen Woo-ping has had a long and successful career as a director and actor in Hong Kong. American audiences may be more familiar with him through his outstanding fight choreography for such films as The Matrix, Kill Bill and The Forbidden Kingdom. After not helming a film since 1996’s Tai Chi Chun, Yuen returned to […]
Blu-ray Review: The Long Riders
After honing his writing skills on small, independent documentaries, and getting experience as an assistant director on major box-office hits such as The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Bullitt (1968), Walter Hill became a real force in Hollywood with the screenplays for Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972) and The Drowning Pool (1975). By the 1970’s, […]
Blu-ray Review: Death Race 2000
Shout Factory | 1975 | 78 mins. | Rated R Sometimes nicknamed “King of the B-movies” for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects it), director and film producer Roger Corman has gained both critical and commercial success with a series of low budget films, in a career that has spanned more than half […]
Blu-ray Review: Kill Bill -Volume 2
When Quentin Tarantino began shooting Kill Bill, he originally intended to make only one film. However, as he was shooting, it became obvious that he had shot enough footage for two films. Instead of trying to widdle the story down to an acceptable length, Tarantino wisely decided to produce two films that were released six […]