‘The Magnificent Swordsman’ Recycles from the Past but Feels Fresh and New
Shaw Bros. Spotlight At what point should movie watchers applaud a film which borrows heavily from other familiar sources for the quality of the filmmaking...
‘The Thundering Sword’ Features a Fantastic Showcase for Chang Pei-pei
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Spotlight Heroes behaving virtuously and villains relishing in evildoing are the archetypical behaviours of characters that make up action-adventure films. This is the...
‘Lady Snowblood’— the Revenge Tale that Inspired Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Spotlight On a windy, wintry night deep inside a prison cell for female inmates, with searing pain erupting through her body, a woman...
Revisiting ‘Golden Swallow’ Chang Cheh’s 1968 sequel to ‘Come Drink With Me’
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Spotlight Who has never watched a film a second, third, or even fourth time and only then come to understand some of its...
‘Come Drink With Me’ Comes Strongly Recommended
by Edgar Chaput
Come Drink With Me is a film that clearly has ambition, playing the game by its own rules....
‘The Sword and the Lute’ Operates on a Very Plain Level for a Shaw Bros. Production
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight After Temple of the Red Lotus and The Twin Swords, both emerged onto the Hong Kong cinema scene in 1965, showcasing several brand new, soon...
‘Saving General Yang’ Perfectly Fits the Mold of Vintage Chinese Historical Epics
by Edgar Chaput
*The following review is included in the Saturday Shaw Brothers column for its familiarity with several iconic Shaw epics. In fact it is actually another...
Revisiting ‘The Man with the Iron Fists’
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight The RZA’s directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists, is not a Shaw Brothers picture. It was released by Universal Studios,...
‘The Twin Swords’ Put Jimmy Wang and Lo Lieh Firmly on the Movie Map
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight Few would debate that the single defining decade in the all too short history of the Shaw Brothers studio was the...
‘The One-Armed Swordsman’ — Flawed, and Yet, A Cut Above the Rest
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight One knows exactly when it has happened. Any movie aficionado is familiar with that odd feeling which takes over when one...
‘Crippled Avengers’ Features Fight Choreography that Surpasses Most Action Films by Leaps and Bounds
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight The Crippled Avengers (a.k.a. Return of the Five Deadly Venoms) By taking a moment to look at Chang Cheh’s career as...
‘Shaolin Mantis’- Now that he learned the secret…he was ready to kill!
by Edgar Chaput
A Look Back at Shaolin Mantis (also known as The Deadly Mantis) In the world of kung fu, so far as the movies go at...
For the Love of Shaw Bros. Films
by Edgar Chaput
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight Why the Shaw Bros. Movies Are Awesome Shaw Brothers films are not exactly at the top of many film buffs’ watching...