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Director Zhang Yimou’s 1991 Raise the Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua] is a visually beautiful, exquisitely acted film set in Twenties China among the concubines of a rich clan leader, Chen Zuoqian, […]
Director Zhang Yimou’s dazzlingly brilliant 1988 Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] is a masterly epic drama from China that charts the life of a teenage bride (Gong Li), from her wedding in the 1930s up […]
John Wayne stars in the 1942 black and white movie Flying Tigers as Airman Jim Gordon who leads a Flying Tigers squadron in the US fight against the Japanese, with the help of his seasoned […]
Director Clarence Brown’s entertaining 1941 MGM wartime comedy crime adventure stars a great vintage line-up in Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen and Jessie Ralph. Gable plays jewel thief Gerald Meldrick and Russell plays sophisticated […]
Director Mark Robson’s long but satisfying 1958 British drama The Inn of the Sixth Happiness stars Ingrid Bergman, who triumphs over her physical miscasting in a heartwarming turn as Gladys Aylward, the English missionary who […]
Xuan Huang stars as Feng Liu, Caiyu Yang as Dingding Lin and Elane Zhong as Suizi in director Xiaogang Feng’s haunting and stirring 2017 romantic drama based around the lives of the young members of a Chinese Military Cultural Troupe in the […]
Despite his odd casting, Boris Karloff is good serious fun as Mr James Lee Wong, the Oriental detective, investigating a stolen gem and murder, in director William Nigh’s most entertaining and satisfying 1937 film version […]