Once a box-office poison, stand-up comedian and actor Dayo Wong finally struck gold in the late 2010s when he starred in ‘Agent Mr. Chan’ – a wacky espionage send-up that became the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 2018 and to a lesser extent, the martial …
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The first thing that caught my attention about Frant Gwo’s prequel to ‘The Wandering Earth’, which was a gargantuan box-office hit in China four years ago is the runtime. The movie runs around 50 minutes longer than the first movie. A whopping 173 minutes, to …
Jennifer Lopez sure loves to play a bride in the movies. It all started with the 1995 indie drama called ‘My Family’, where she was briefly shown in a wedding dress. Since then, we see more of her as a bride on-screen ranging from ‘Selena’ …
The title of this Warner Bros. animated feature says it all and since it’s about mummies, it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear a thematically relevant needle drop featuring The Bangles’ ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’ playing in the background. And that is not all since …
Excluding last year’s New Kung Fu Cult Master 1, where Donnie Yen shows up in a cameo appearance as Cheung Sam-Fung, the last time he led a wuxia film was the atrocious Netflix’s English-speaking (!) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny in 2016. Sakra, …
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With a title as generic as Plane, I wouldn’t blame some people out there for thinking this has to be one of those run-of-the-mill, bargain-basement action movies capitalizing on the go-to tough-guy action hero Gerard Butler. The Scottish actor, of course, isn’t synonymous with words …
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