QUENTIN SPEAKS: Remembering a Cannes encounter with the Grindhouse guru.
In honour of the release of the awesome Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double-header Grindhouse, I’d like to recount for you the story of my first memorable encounter with the former. It was at the...MORE ›
HARD BOILING JUBILEE: Tracing John Woo’s mean streets with Kea Wong.
We shot a location guide for the Hard Boiled DVD today. Much as I love seeing myself on camera (not!), I decided to pass the mantle over to TWC Asia’s adopted ‘little sister’, Kea Wong. Kea is a...MORE ›
ONE JOURNEY, THREE KINGDOMS: Tracking the Resurrection of the Dragon, part two.
On the second morning of my Three Kingdoms set visit, I joined Maggie Q on the action unit. I’ve been on a few Asian movie sets in my time, but this one has a special energy. Director Daniel Lee, action...MORE ›
ONE JOURNEY, THREE KINGDOMS: Tracking the Resurrection of the Dragon, part one.
I’m skimming like a stone across China: Hong Kong to Wuhan, Wuhan to Xian (home of the terracotta warriors), Xian to Dunhang, or, more precisely, Guazhou. If Dunhuang can be described as the back of...MORE ›
MEMORIES AT THE BRUCE LEE GATE: A movie-goers guide to Macao.
After my recent Beijing adventures, I returned to Hong Kong for some weekend r-and-r in Macao. This is a former Portugese ‘enclave’ located an hour away (by hovercraft) from Hong Kong. It’s unquestionably...MORE ›
RETURN TO THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE: Meeting two unsung martial heroes.
Beijing is a long way from Hunan, but, to my happy surprise, I had a Shaolin encounter in the Chinese capital. I was invited to a dinner at which two of my fellow guests were Simmon Xu and Ji Chun-hua,...MORE ›
BOLO AND BEY’S BEIJING ADVENTURE: The return of the beast from the east.
In the wake of the US release of a certain faux exploitation magnum opus, various publications have run lists of the kind of cinematic guilty pleasures you need to recreate the grindhouse cinema experience....MORE ›
