Shi mian mai fu (Attack from Ten Directions)

Without this bold experiment in color, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS is still a beautiful film, but not quite as eye-catching as its predecessor.....HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS is inferior to HERO in any way....being as kinetically potent as the films....the film's lovers....This simplicity of story.... ... Full Review

easily ranks as one of last year's most visually stunning films.....Zhang spent two months living with a blind woman to prepare for her role as the visually impaired Mei.....A film as beautiful as this one was meant to be seen on a big screen.....Compared with the epic movie's vibrant splashes of color and exquisitely detailed sets and costumes, reality looks like a faded, beat-up black-and-white photograph..... ... Full Review

The House of Flying Daggers operates mysteriously, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Under the leadership of a mysterious New Leader, the House of Flying Daggers grows ever more powerful. ... Full Review

House is director Zhang Yimou's followup to Hero, which must rank as one of the most breathtakingly beautiful films ever made.....But without such spectacular sequences to distract us, the humbler House 's narrative framework feels creaky.....House of Flying Daggers makes the connection between martial arts and dance explicit:.... ... Full Review

House of Flying Daggers , however, seems determined to shrug off these kinds of implications: it is a heightened, highly wrought melodrama, a tale of ambiguous commitments and conflicting loyalties. Zhang relies on his star cast to endow his spectacle with a sense of depth: Kaneshiro gives Jin a lazy authority, a carefree manner increasingly challenged by conflicting loyalties. ... Full Review

Red Cliff is John Woo's first Chinese film since 1992 and it reteams him with star Tony Leung who was with Woo in that final Chinese film and action fan classic Hard Boiled . ... Full Article

As part of Pitchfork's Director's Cut series, the crew sat down with the directors behind Raekwon 's video for "House of Flying Daggers," off the highly-anticipated Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II, due out September 8. ... Full Article

Shaolin Monks tickets guarantee you an amazing spectacle that Westeners never seem to tire of, as the Kung Fu Masters live show returns to London again this autumn. ... Full Article

How could I pass up ordering something named the "Tijuana ninja roll?" I'd be haunted in my sleep by stealth men shaking maracas, which makes no sense at all. ... Full Article

A friend brought me a copy of John Woo's ancient Chinese Three Kingdoms war epic Red Cliff back from the Orient where it's already out on DVD. ... Full Article

FIRE ME UP - films that get the adrenalin pumping or heat up debate include: action maestro John Woo's historical Chinese epic Red Cliff starring Asia heartthrobs Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying... ... Full Article