Tag: kung fu

Happy Birthday, Bruce Lee

This week would’ve been Bruce Lee Jun-Fan’s 70th birthday. Here’s a little memoriam we’ve put together in his honor: His screen test for the role of Kato in The Green Hornet (includes him doing forms in a suit); the opening credits for the Cantonese print of Enter The […]

How Hollywood Killed Stunts

Salon has an excellent piece on the death of stunts in Hollywood movies, exploring everything from the history of film stunts, the reliance on CG effects and new-fangled “intensified continuity” editing. The piece also mentions Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa, Zoe Bell and Yakima Canutt. (Thanks, Brian from Shelf […]

RIP, Roy Ward Baker

Director and Hammer horror icon Roy Ward Baker has died at the age of 93. Baker directed Quatermass and the Pit,  The Vampire Lovers, which updated Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla for a more psychedelic and softcore age, and co-directed Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires with Shaw Bros. Chang […]

Midnight Madness 2010 Trailers

Here are trailers for 6 of the 10 movies at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program this year: Fubar II; The Vanishing on 7th Street; The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman; Red Nights; Fire of Conscience; and Stake Land. (SUPER, Insidious, Bunraku and John Carpenter’s […]

Disconnected Viewing

I don’t have cable right now so I’m rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I’d like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them–something like when James revisited his favorite childhood books. And it’s true—he did inspire me. But […]