Episode 5 of Night Has Come, the new thriller K-Drama starring Kim Woo-Seok and Lee Jae-In in the lead roles, arrived on Viki and U+ Mobile TV this Monday, December 11, 2023. Lim Dae-Woong serves as the director of the ongoing Korean series. Viewers of the series have been quite curious to see how the … Read more
One of the great director-actor pairings in Asian cinema history, that of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat, may be over partly due to age. When we think of the great director-actor pairings throughout Asian cinema history, at the top is Kurosawa and Mifune. But we can’t forget Kenji Mizoguchi and Kinuyo Tanaka (seriously, add Ugetsu … Read more
Finally, Woo has returned to the States with the high-concept holiday bloodbath “Silent Night.” After his young son is caught in the crossfire between two opposing gangs and shot dead on Christmas Eve, a grieving father (Joel Kinnaman) tracks down those responsible. The twist here is that the entire film is conveyed without a single … Read more
Chalk up John Woo as another director who doesn’t enjoy superhero movies, with him preferring old-fashioned movies. John Woo is perhaps the greatest action director of all time. No one can shoot action as kinetically as him, and his style paved the way for everyone from Sam Raimi to The Wachowskis to Chad Stahelski, whose … Read more
It’s been 20 years since John Woo made an American thriller. The master of Hong Kong action films like The Killer and Hard Boiled initially came to Hollywood in the early 90s, and found success with a string of very Woo-ish action flicks like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II. But after a couple of flops he returned home and has been … Read more