A Knight of the Old Code and a computer-generated talking dragon (cultured voice of Sean Connery) join forces to rid the realm of the evil ruler. Do all dragons talk? We don't know, because this is The Last Dragon, but no one in the late 10th Century seems taken aback …
King Hu’s masterwork is guaranteed to out-Marvel any of the major blockbusters on this summer’s release schedule. Hearken back to 1457 AD, a time when hard-hearted eunuchs governed China. The country's most powerful undercover operations have been divided in two: the Imperial Guard, dressed in white, and their black-clad counterparts, …
As ancient China falls under the rule of an evil Emperor, a fiery young girl rebels. Alongside a powerful dragon, she embarks on a journey to recover the last remaining dragon egg and save the world.
Biopic -- no, hagiopic -- on the Hong Kong film star and so much more: cultural ambassador, martial-arts revolutionist, mixed-race family man. The source material is the memoir of Lee's widow (subtitle: The Man Only I Knew), so you know not to expect much iconoclasm. Even so, you might not …
Droll Japanese film about a small-town sawbones who, in the last days of the Second World War, wages a single-track battle against the spread of hepatitis (earning him the alias of "Dr. Liver") while the army medicos are overly concerned with typhus. The unprepossessing hero cuts an amusing figure, bustling …
Late-17th-century murder mystery, to which no solution is set forth. For us to be kept in the dark as to who did the evil deed seems admissable if our point of identification is meant to be the man who is framed for it. And insofar as this character -- the …
Despite being the grandson of a famed village shaman, Dr. Cheon doesn’t actually believe in ghosts, yet makes a living performing fake exorcisms on camera. But when a mysterious client arrives at his door, Dr. Cheon is drawn into a series of strange and unexplainable events that will challenge everything …
Eddie Murphy talks to the animals. More coarsely, and to commoner animals, than Rex Harrison talked. And they more coarsely in return: "Why do they call me a guinea pig, anyway? I'm not Italian, and I'm not pork." And no less boringly, in just more than half the time. With …
Set in medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne’s past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all. Starring Sophie Turner and Kit Harington …
Variation on the late-Eighties theme of mind transference (or body transference or personality transference), effected this time by some faulty dream research. Newcomer Marc Rocco, paging in world-record time through the Movie Director's Handbook of Style, seizes the occasion to behave as if he were (or wished he were) Nicolas …
In light of the fact that it was made by a director of at least moderate stature -- Lawrence Kasdan of Body Heat, The Accidental Tourist, Mumford, etc. -- this might have raised higher anticipation than most Stephen King adaptations, till you remind yourself of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Like …
Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, née Alice Liddell, the "real" Alice in Wonderland, is brought to America at age eighty to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University on the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth -- a promising germ of an idea, that promises more than it delivers. It does deliver some …