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...

For the first time in four years I was invited onto an episode of the Director's Club Podcast to chat with host Jim Laczkowski and guest...

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...

COME WITH US AS WE TUMBLE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, PASS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, ENTER THE WARDROBE, AND RIDE A TORNADO TO OZ! It’s time...

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...