When I was eight, my neighbor invited me to go see No Retreat, No Surrender. I had not heard of the film so I turned him down. This may have been the worst moviegoing decision of my life, and somehow even after Van Damme exploded I never went back and caught his debut. Although my […]
One of the bittersweet joys of discovering Hong Kong cinema in the ‘90s was trying to find movies on VHS, which usually meant cropped badly with the subtitles cut off, or just invisible white lettering on white background. DVD changed that when films were at least presented in the proper aspect ratio with electronic subtitles, […]