This past month, on the Criterion Channel, they had this excellent retrospective of Hong Kong action movies, which sent me down a rabbit hole of trying to find the best ones. I have to say, as an ...

The master of balletic action and heroic bloodshed, John Woo is behind many of the best modern action classics, including Red ...

GKIDS just dropped a new re-release trailer that action fans are going to want to crank up loud. Three of John Woo ’s most iconic Hong Kong action films are heading back to theaters in 2026, newly ...

There’s a scene early on in John Woo’s Bullet in the Head (1990) that remains one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen are having a teary-eyed breakup ...

It was a rough year for Hong Kong cinema – only Another World made more than HK$14 million locally – but there were still ...

Like Michelle Yeoh, female fighters Cynthia Rothrock, Kara Hui and Shih Szu starred in their own must-see Hong Kong action ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As awards season begins to take shape, this week the New York Film Festival announced its ...