Tag: Hard Boiled

  • Every American John Woo Movie, Ranked Worst to Best

    Every American John Woo Movie, Ranked Worst to Best

    John Woo is a legendary filmmaker who hails from Hong Kong and has made some of the region’s best action movies. Considering Hong Kong cinema is known for delivering great action movies (among other genres of course), it’s therefore safe to say that Woo has directed some of the greatest action films of all time,…

  • John Woo’s Hard Boiled Is Gay

    John Woo’s Hard Boiled Is Gay

    (Welcome to Movies Are Gay, a Pride Month series where we explore the intentional, or accidental, ways Lgbtqia+ themes, characters, and creatives have shaped cinema.)I try not to be one of those people that operate as if any instance of two men showing care and compassion for one another is inherently homoerotic because it’s that…

  • From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies

    From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies

    As Brad Pitt’s new thriller Bullet Train arrives in cinemas, Guardian writers have picked their most exciting action films of all timeWhen John Woo’s 1989 breakthrough The Killer started slipping into repertory houses and cult video stores, it was the beginning of a revolution, like an adrenalized marriage between the cool of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le…

  • Montreal’s Fantasia Honors John Woo, Spotlights South Korean Animation

    Montreal’s Fantasia Honors John Woo, Spotlights South Korean Animation

    “Face Off” helmer John Woo will receive a Career Achievement Award during Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, about to celebrate its 26th edition. The Hong Kong filmmaker is currently working on “Silent Night,” starring Joel Kinnaman and Kid Cudi.“I defy anyone to watch ‘Bullet in the Head,’ ‘Hard Boiled’ or ‘The Killer’ and not walk…

  • Mini-Water Cooler: ‘Shang-Chi’, ‘Hard Boiled’, ‘The Green Knight’, ‘The Virgin Suicides’, and More

    Mini-Water Cooler: ‘Shang-Chi’, ‘Hard Boiled’, ‘The Green Knight’, ‘The Virgin Suicides’, and More

    On the August 23, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Hoai-Tran saw Chris (!) and blew out her voice doing karaoke.…