By the mid-1980s, people of Southeast Asia still weren’t equally represented in American mass media. (Just look at Lonf Duk Dong.) Movies like The Killing Fields portrayed them as victims, villains or friends of white people who were the lead. Even though that movie is based on a real story of violence and genocide, youContinue reading “‘A Better Tomorrow’ At 40: The Action Movie Made A Huge Impact”
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‘The Killer’ Hits The Target, But Misses The Bullseye
In 1989, The Killer was released in theaters around the world. The third pairing of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat would go on to set the Gold Standard of Hong Kong action flicks. Yun-fat and Woo had worked in the landmark 1986 A Better Tomorrow or True Colors of a Hero under its Chinese title.Continue reading “‘The Killer’ Hits The Target, But Misses The Bullseye”