Lady of Steel features one of my favorite fight sequences as its co-headlining stars - Cheng Pei-Pei and Yueh Hua - “fight” each other to determine just where their allegiances lie. The set design of...

Brothers Five , directed by Lo Wei , is a definite early high water mark for the Shaw Brothers as the production design is absolutely through the roof and the locations are far and wide, making this v...

Decapitations! Impalements! It’s time to let the limbs fly! Early on, it really feels like this wuxia is going to deliver something altogether different as a martial arts film. There are a bunch of ea...

Cheng Pei-Pei is back in action! This time she wields a whip instead of a sword and, as it is time for the Shaw Brothers to experiment with their brand of wuxia, one shouldn’t be surprised that its ta...

Written, directed, and starring Jimmy Wang Yu and made for Raymond Chow ’s Golden Harvest (and not the Shaw Brothers after he left them), One-Armed Boxer takes its kung-fu leanings as seriously as it...

Written by Ni Kuang , Chang Cheh and Chin Shu-mei , The Delightful Forest is actually a restaurant in a small town. It is also a place where gambling and prostitution is accepted. But, wuxia fans know...

Secret passageways! Zombie-looking baddies! Corpse worm pills! Evil dungeons! And Hammer Studio-like atmosphere galore! Also featuring an impaling from a peg leg, The Devil’s Mirror is bananas! It def...

There are a lot of firsts involved with the legacy of The One-Armed Swordsman , which is now on blu-ray thanks to Nova Media . Obviously, it’s the first in the trilogy of Swordsman films, but (and mor...

Welcome to Kaiju Korner , where we celebrate all things concerning Japanese fantasy and giant monsters! What do bathtub toy boats and plastic helicopters have in common with a stunt coordinator pionee...

Okay, let’s get the transfer quality out of the way. It’s much better than what came before, but black levels still crush in some key moments of Godzilla, which simply hurts my soul. Why someone can’t...

This is where the story stops. Or, more accurately, this is where it begins. Max Beyond , from HaZimation ,is a hyper realistic animated science fiction adventure in which one child has the ability to...

Sasquatch Sunset is probably going to divide a lot of audiences. Myself? Well, I honestly don’t know what to make of it. This is a movie about sasquatches . . . which don’t exist. Or do they? That’s h...

It’s just a coffee table, you know? It’ll always be in the way, but it’s completely necessary in homes. Unfortunately, the coffee table at the center of this movie is far gone and out, complete with n...

“There are noises in my walls.” I happen to love it when the creepy-crawlies go into full-tilt comedy. And Kiah Roache-Turner ’s Sting does exactly that. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll want to curl...

With its atmosphere cranked up to an 11, All You Need Is Death is proof positive that creaky old folktales can still be disturbing in this modern world. All You Need Is Death takes its time unfurling...