Colin Edwards·Jul 6‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ or — Better than ‘Close Encounters’ AND ‘Spaceballs’ Combined?Despite having had the movie sitting on my shelf since last year I’d deliberately put off watching ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ (1983)…
Colin Edwards·Jun 19‘The Singing Thief’ or — An Irresitible Multicoloured Gem?My expectations weren’t too high going into ‘The Singing Thief’ (1969) last night as I tend to find the majority of these James Bond…
Joseph Kuby·Sep 7, 2025Biggest Big BrotherThis is Sammo Hung’s nickname in Hong Kong. In 2019, the HKIFF published another book to add to their Filmmaker in Focus series. For Sammo…
Joseph Kuby·May 23, 2025A Shaw ThingMuch has been made of John Woo being director Chang Cheh’s apprentice at the Shaw Brothers film studio. When interviewed for Huang…
Colin Edwards·Feb 6, 2025‘Buddha’s Palm’ or — Reaching a State of Idiotic Nirvana?Despite the superhuman abilities of their heroes the Wuxia films of the 1970’s still tended to be relatively grounded and realistic…
Colin Edwards·Dec 16, 2024’The 14 Amazons’ or — The Shaw Brothers do ‘The Lord of the Rings’?There are many reasons I could lavish gushing praise on Cheng Kang’s ‘The 14 Amazons’ (1972) but there’s one thing about his film that’s…
Colin Edwards·Dec 12, 2024‘Marco Polo’ or — Better Than ‘Lawrence of Arabia’?‘Marco Polo’ (1975) is a historical epic concerning the famous merchant/explorer’s time as an advisor to the court of Kublai Khan. Now if…
Colin Edwards·Nov 28, 2024‘Return of the One-Armed Swordsman’ or — Now THAT’S a Sequel!?‘The One-Armed Swordsman’ (1967) tells the story of Fang Kang (Jimmy Wang) who accidentally gets his right arm lobbed off one day by the…
Joseph Kuby·Mar 21, 2024The Company You KeepThis article is about Wong Jing’s tenure as a screenwriter for old school Kung Fu movies. Barring The Fighting Fool, his most memorable…
Joseph Kuby·Jul 19, 2023Open SecretThere is a 1974 Shaw Brothers film called The Drug Addicts. It was about a martial artist who is a drug addict whose drug supplier, also a…
