Before Hong Kong's mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different...

Upon its release back in 1998, the common comparison for Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan was Joel and Ethan Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo.

King Hu and Lau Kar-leung helped set the standard for Shaw Bros. martial arts movies, but no other director had a bigger impact on the...

The general pattern of Hollywood dystopian fiction throughout the decades has been to acknowledge, criticize, and/or satirize the current...

Best remembered for his psychedelic Grand Guignol horror/action hybrids Hex (1980), Hex vs. Witchcraft (1980), Bewitched (1981), Corpse...

Writer/director Chor Yuen is very well-represented in this latest Shawscope collection, especially for his action-packed entries in the...

During the ‘60s and ‘70s, Hong Kong filmmakers had a clear affinity for the (largely) Italian-made westerns of the same period, movies we...

In 1966, King Hu’s Come Drink with Me set the quality precedent for Shaw Bros. wuxia movies and the popularity precedent for a wave of...

Before The Five Venoms (1978), before The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), before even The Big Boss (1971), there was The One-Armed Sword...

In the decade before he made the groundbreaking Battles without Honor and Humanity series (1973-74), which led him to be recognized as a...