With its second entry, Tom Cruise's signature franchise tried to turn him into a suave American 007. It didn't work. This is Mission Impossible 2 revisited.
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In our David Leitch interview, the director of Hobbs & Shaw talks about working with Dwayne Johnson and why he loves Jackie Chan.
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Can a Face Off remake possibly top John Woo's ludicrously entertaining 1997 action film? I guess we're about to find out.
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We listeneded to the Mission: Impossible audio commentaries to see what we can learn from Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarire, J.J. Abrams, and John Woo.
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With Mission Impossible 2, director John Woo made a full-fledged John Woo movie, something we couldn't appreciate 18 years ago.
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is read our retrospective of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
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The Manhunt trailer announces the return of action director master John Woo. Woo's latest over-the-top film heads to Netflix this weekend.
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John Woo is looking to direct a The Killer remake and he's recruited Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o to step in for Chow Yun-Fat.
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As we discuss in our Manhunt review, John Woo's return to the cop action movie is a mixed bag of ambitious action scenes and melodrama.
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John Woo makes a return to the cop thriller genre with the Manhunt trailer, a remake of a classic 1976 Japanese action film now starring Zhang Hanyu.
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On the Face/Off 20th anniversary, let's take a deep dive into John Woo's only truly great American movie, which still shines in 2017.
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The English-language The Killer remake is still in the works, confirms director John Woo. He helmed the original 1989 Hong Kong action classic.
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Director John Woo has been busy with making films overseas, and he's added one more to the mix with a Manhunt remake coming together as his next film.
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John Woo's latest film is a two part action, war, romance called The Crossing. Part 1 opens in December. Watch John Woo The Crossing Trailer.
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After years away from the big screen, John Woo is back this year -- at least in China -- with The Crossing. The first installment of the two-part film hits China in December. The movie is set in 1949 and will tell the stories of three couples whose lives intersect on the doomed Taiping steamer.…
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John Woo has been quiet for several years as he dealt with throat cancer, and as government script approval was delayed for his latest film, but he's ready to return to cinema screens with a new two-part epic. Much as his last major effort, Red Cliff, was a two-part tale drawn from Chinese history, so…
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Sylvester Stallone played a little game with his Twitter followers Tuesday and the result was his disclosure of the director for The Expendables 3. That name? Patrick Hughes, best known for the small Australian film Red Hill, which starred True Blood's Ryan Kwatten. Check out Sly's tweets below. Here are Sly's tweets about Hughes. If you…
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I learned of Jean-Pierre Melville's super-cool, ultra-controlled gangster movie Le Samouraï from John Woo. In my defense, it was the '90s, I was young, and Woo's highly stylized films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hard Boiled had me reading every possible interview with the director. It was probably in the pages of Asian Trash Cinema where…
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Lots and lots of filmmakers and actors talking about their upcoming films in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump, read quotes about the followin: J.J. Abrams gives a brief update of the development of Mission: Impossible 5. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't sure of when Terminator 5 might happen... ...but seems excited about playing Conan…
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Typically, it's the French New Wave that gets all the news, but Japan had its own New Wave in the '60s, and one of the key players, whether he would have said as much or not, was Suzuki Seijun. The director worked for Nikkatsu studios, and in the '60s he started to crank out studio…
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There has long been talk of a remake of John Woo's standard-setting 1989 action film The Killer. The movie was one of the pictures that focused international attention on both the director and his star Chow Yun-Fat, and it had great influence on action movies that followed. It's a film that I can vividly remember…
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John Woo is in the middle of what might be a renaissance. It's too early to really make that call, but he's more active now in the wake of Red Cliff than he's been in the past few years. And more active with interesting projects -- if you haven't seen Red Cliff it is definitely…
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There's finally been some movement on John Woo's next period war epic, the '40s aerial fighter movie which we first heard about over a year ago. It was tentatively being referred to as Flying Tiger Heroes, but the title has now been shortened to the snappier sounding Flying Tigers. Who's Woo looking to cast in…
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It's almost a great, hopefully not sad cosmic joke that Bob and Harvey Weinstein, so famous for buying and then either recutting or shelving Hong Kong films, will distribute John Woo's latest made-in-China effort, Reign of Assassins. The Weinstein Company announced today that it has pre-bought North and South American rights to the film, which…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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The story of Marco Polo has been brought to the screen before and will probably be adapted many times in the future. The next film about the explorer could be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) as Warner Bros. has attached the director to a project based on a pitch by Adam Cooper and…
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Research shows the plant-based oil may be as powerful as your favorite vitamin C serum.
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