There have been many films based on the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung, a real-life Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, yet the series of movies by Tsui Hark starring the incomparable Jet Li has become the benchmark when it comes to making historical martial arts films and it remains one…
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Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961) – Review
Legendary filmmaker George Pal is known for being the man behind such classics as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds but he also had a few stinkers on his resume such as Conquest of Space, Doc Savage, as well as today’s entry, Atlantis, The Lost Continent.
300 (2006) – Review
Frank Miller is easily one of the most well-known comic book creators of today, and many of his works have managed to make it to the big screen, but it was when in 2005 that director Robert Rodriguez helmed the adaptation of his graphic novel Sin City that non-comic book fans took notice – its worldwide box take…