Red Cliff

Salt opened this past weekend to middling reviews and middling box office; the consensus appears to be that people are more or less in the middle on it. But it does do one thing well; it features a female secret agent who can handle herself. She's not...

One of the coolest things about Roger Ebert is his annual 'Ebertfest,' once known as Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival. Basically he selects a bunch of films that he loves that he feels didn't get enough notice and does his best to bring more notice...

I just watched John Woo's uncut, five-hour Red Cliff (billed as the 'original international version') on Blu-Ray, and I'm declaring it a masterpiece. It's the kind of rousing epic that easily compares with Ben-Hur, Gladiator and Braveheart, and even...

When I saw John Woo's Red Cliff (5 screens) a couple of months back, I could barely contain my enthusiasm. I thought it was a true return to form for Woo, who came from an exemplary career in Hong Kong to a rather spotty (if underrated) one in Hollywood....

I'm not sure it was a good movie year, but it was definitely an unusual one. We had a gourmet smorgasbord of animated films all year long, as well as a high number of excellent films directed by women. Then there were the war movies, a genre I usually...