Lo Wei had his fingers in a lot of successful pies. From “discovering” and getting Bruce Lee on the big screen with The Big Boss and Fists Of Fury (1971 & 1972 respectively), as well as “launching” the career of Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan was under an exclusive contract with […]
Bruce Lee
When Taekwondo Strikes (1973) Luring Audiences back after the passing of a Universal Star (Review)
Enter the Clones of Bruce Lee & J-Horror Virus (Frightfest 2023) (Review)
The Frightfest line-up is often home to some exceptional documentaries that chronicle everything from cultural curios to cinematic movements. They act as a sort of cinematic sorbet from the fictional chills and thrills that surround them, and this year is no different with two strong examples being Enter the Clones […]
Project A (1983) & Project A II (1987) Jackie Chan, the Cinephile (Review)
Doberman Cop (1977) A peculiar Sonny Chiba character in an endlessly odd police thriller (Review)
Once upon a time, it was instantly apparent when a film was based on a comic or graphic novel as those films concerned themselves with the super-powered and the otherworldly, then around the mid-1990s there was a paradigm shift and the nature of these titles became indistinguishable from the more […]