It seems that if a retelling of Pocahontas with a hoard of 10-foot tall blue extraterrestrial beings is enough to spawn masses of people trying to “avatar-me” (not to mention nine Oscar nominations), then surely a 3D Monkey King epic is bound to be truly mind-blowing. You heard me, Monkey King in all his furry detail is coming to a fake DVD cart near you soon. more ›

It took years to finally get distributed and became one of the few Hollywood films to not be premiered in the U.S. first. Perhaps because of that, reviews of Weinstein-backed Shanghai are somewhat hard to find. Still, a few sites and newspapers have taken it upon themselves to chat about the film, so here's the buzz! more ›

Unsurprisingly, it seems like a lot of people are pretty upset over the fact that Avatar 2D was kicked out of theaters to make room for Chow Yun Fat's new Confucius biopic. Even though the State censorship committee is making excuses like "Avatar 2D box office sales are declining" and "we didn't formally do anything to force Avatar off screens" (i.e. there's no proof), it looks like nobody believes them: In fact, some netizens were so angry that they're thinking of boycotting Confucius. Needless to say, that's not very Confucian of them, but since we're pretty annoyed ourselves, we're in support. more ›

Well, at least no one can say that he isn't versatile. After years of playing bad-ass gangsters and Kung Fu masters, Chow Yun-Fat has most recently popped up in Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and the soon-to-be-released, anime-turned-movie Dragonball Evolution. Soon, however, he'll have all eyes on him in a movie chronicling the life and times of Confucius. more ›

Fans of French film might be interested to know that Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 classic Le Cercle Rouge (starring Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte and Yves Montand) is being remade in Hollywood by none other than Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To. more ›

Jia Zhangke’s Golden Lion-award-winning Still Life (in Chinese, Sanxia Haoren, or "The Good People of the Three Gorges") isn’t quite the masterpiece that we’ve come to expect from the man responsible for the pitch-perfect The World (2004) or Platform (2000). But save for a few minor hiccups, it comes awfully close. more ›