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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘The Magnificent Swordsman’ Recycles from the Past but Feels Fresh and New
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Spotlight At what point should movie watchers applaud a film which borrows heavily from other…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘The Thundering Sword’ Features a Fantastic Showcase for Chang Pei-pei
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Spotlight Heroes behaving virtuously and villains relishing in evildoing are the archetypical behaviours of characters…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘Lady Snowblood’— the Revenge Tale that Inspired Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Spotlight On a windy, wintry night deep inside a prison cell for female inmates, with…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
Revisiting ‘Golden Swallow’ Chang Cheh’s 1968 sequel to ‘Come Drink With Me’
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Spotlight Who has never watched a film a second, third, or even fourth time and…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘Come Drink With Me’ Comes Strongly Recommended
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputCome Drink With Me is a film that clearly has ambition, playing the game by its own rules.
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘The Sword and the Lute’ Operates on a Very Plain Level for a Shaw Bros. Production
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight After Temple of the Red Lotus and The Twin Swords, both emerged onto the Hong Kong cinema…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘Saving General Yang’ Perfectly Fits the Mold of Vintage Chinese Historical Epics
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar Chaput*The following review is included in the Saturday Shaw Brothers column for its familiarity with several iconic…
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Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight The RZA’s directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists, is not a Shaw…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘The Twin Swords’ Put Jimmy Wang and Lo Lieh Firmly on the Movie Map
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight Few would debate that the single defining decade in the all too short…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘The One-Armed Swordsman’ — Flawed, and Yet, A Cut Above the Rest
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight One knows exactly when it has happened. Any movie aficionado is familiar with…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘Crippled Avengers’ Features Fight Choreography that Surpasses Most Action Films by Leaps and Bounds
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputShaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight The Crippled Avengers (a.k.a. Return of the Five Deadly Venoms) By taking a…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
‘Shaolin Mantis’- Now that he learned the secret…he was ready to kill!
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputA Look Back at Shaolin Mantis (also known as The Deadly Mantis) In the world of kung…
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Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight Why the Shaw Bros. Movies Are Awesome Shaw Brothers films are not exactly…