Tag: John Woo
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‘Silent Night’ Trailer: Joel Kinnaman & Scott Mescudi Star In John Woo’s Epic Return To American Action Filmmaking
Would you like a silent action film with little to no dialogue, or would you like the return of action-giant John Woo to the stage of American action cinema? And hey, how about both? Because that’s what you’ll get in Lionsgate’s “Silent Night,” a nonstop, action-packed thrill ride starring Joel Kinnaman (“The Killing,” “RoboCop,” “Suicide…
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John Woo’s Silent Night Trailer Teases The Dialogue-Free Christmas Action Movie
If you’re wondering why the last 20 years has felt like something was missing, it’s because John Woo hasn’t given us a Hollywood action flick since 2003’s “Paycheck.” The legendary Chinese filmmaker is responsible for some of the greatest films of all time and remains the patron saint of Gun Fu. Woo has been continuing…
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A John Wick 2 Stunt Gone Wrong Cut An Entire Car In Half
The “John Wick” franchise isn’t just a montage of John Woo-inspired gun-fu combat sequences. The series has used just about everything imaginable to craft intense action scenes, from dogs to, as was the case with “John Wick: Chapter 4,” fast-moving vehicles. In fact, cars and other forms of transport have been utilized by franchise director…
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John Travolta Is Swoon-Worthy in This Western-Themed Romance
Although now he primarily stars in low-budget crime films, action thrillers, and future cult classics (such as the bizarre stalked film The Fanatic and the misguided mafia biopic Gotti), it’s easy to forget that John Travolta was once the most popular young romantic heartthrob of his generation. Travolta had immediately established himself as an actor…
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One Mission: Impossible 2 Stunt Could’ve Cost Tom Cruise His Eye
There are breathtaking stunts throughout the “Mission: Impossible” series, like when Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle off a cliff or climbs the Burj Khalifa, but “Mission: Impossible 2″ — considered the weakest despite having the most subversive visuals — includes a memorable stunt on a much smaller scale. It’s far more intimate but incredibly visceral.On…
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Mission: Impossible 4 Took A Major IMAX Risk, But It Paid Off In One Key Scene
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” was not the film that turned the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise into the “Tom Cruise Stares Death in the Face” show. No, that honor belongs to “Mission: Impossible II,” which opens with Cruise’s Ethan Hunt free solo rock climbing in Moab, Utah (which Cruise did for real wearing a harness…
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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,…
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‘Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise Soars
Over the past four decades, Tom Cruise has turned Mission: Impossible into one of the greatest action film series of all time, a franchise that continuously has pushed the possibilities of what a modern blockbuster could be, and found new terrifying ways to put Cruise into harm’s way for our amusement. After an intriguing start…
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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…