Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Woo’s Hong Kong swan song (or white dove song) Hard Boiled checks all the boxes to be one of the best ‘90s action movies, and ...

John Woo is a master at constructing high-intensity fight scenes, and here are some of the greatest moments in his entire ...

Hong Kong auteur John Woo is back working in Hollywood for the first time since 2003’s “Paycheck” with Christmas actioner “Silent Night,” in which the influential director of classics “Hard Boiled,” ...

Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Zack Snyder are considered the godfathers of pulpy action in the West, but each owes something to John Woo. The Hong Kong filmmaker was a legend in the ‘80s and ...

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual signatures of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, ...

Some people think remakes have to be as good as or even better than the original to be worth making, but that’s a high bar and it’s covered in vaseline. All a remake actually has to do is justify its ...

Plenty of legendary filmmakers have never directed a Best Picture Oscar nominee, including the likes of Hayao Miyazaki, Sam ...

In a vacuum, “Silent Night” seems like any number of action movies about non-superheroic and (either implicitly or explicitly) paternally-inspired one-man killing machines. Joel Edgerton plays a ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As awards season begins to take shape, this week the New York Film Festival announced its ...