Subject: John Woo

• Oppression Roulette

  November 30, 1995

• Hong Kong Phooey

  Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman make an effective enough Double Team

  April 3, 1997

• New Faces of 1997

  Travolta and Cage Face/Off in mug-slinging match

  June 26, 1997

• Hong Kong and Vine

  Facing off with Face/Off director John Woo

  June 26, 1997

• The Devil and Todd McFarlane

  Spawn's creator revolutionized the comic-book industry. But did he survive Hollywood with his soul intact?

  July 31, 1997

• Home, James

  Bond franchise runs out of gas in Tomorrow Never Dies

  December 18, 1997

• On the Lam

  This "official" John Woo knockoff is less than dazzling

  February 5, 1998

• Run and gun without the fun in Sega's The Club

  March 6, 2008

• Chow Time Again

  July 26, 2007

• Message Bored

  Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

  February 8, 2007

• Don't Believe the Hype

  Despite nonexistent marketing, Cuarón’s latest is not to be missed

  December 21, 2006

• Bait and Switch

  A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

  October 5, 2006

• Abort

  Running the franchise into the ground

  May 4, 2006

• Exit the Matrix

  The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky

  January 26, 2006

• Senior Moment

  Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man

  November 3, 2005

• Techno Prisoners

  February 8, 1996

• Ghost in the Machinist

  December 2, 2004

• Shell Shock

  September 16, 2004

• Forget It

  You saw Paycheck last year... don'tcha remember?

  January 1, 2004

• Pirates of the Refried Bean

  In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the outlaw Johnny Depp saves the day

  September 11, 2003

• Chow Time

  It's no art movie, but Bulletproof Monk finally gives American audiences the real Chow Yun-Fat

  April 17, 2003

• The Pain Train

  Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

  February 6, 2003

• Old News

  Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

  January 2, 2003

• Whose Truth?

  Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation

  October 24, 2002

• Native Tongues

  Windtalkers spins a World War II epic around Navajo codetalkers

  June 13, 2002

• A Real Howler

  Brotherhood of the Wolf tears through cinema's most boring season

  January 17, 2002

• Flaming Wreck

  Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines but lands in familiar terrain

  November 29, 2001

• O, Brother, When Art Thou?

  Tim Blake Nelson's new Othello seems to be a man out of time

  August 30, 2001

• Cut to the Chase

  Pointless but furiously paced, Time and Tide serves up tasty fast fu

  May 31, 2001

• Little Buggers

  Undercover and underage, Spy Kids earns its license to thrill

  March 29, 2001

• Russe Hour

  Fast-paced 15 Minutes is gone in 7,200 seconds

  March 8, 2001

• Ang Has Sprung

  With Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee reinvents the martial arts movie for the art house crowd

  January 11, 2001

• Drunken Masterpiece

  By any other name, soundtrack or edit, The Legend of Drunken Master is still an action classic

  October 19, 2000

• Lotsa War, Not Much Art

  Go for the hot action, not the plot, in The Art of War

  August 24, 2000

• The Implausible Scheme

  Logic-challenged M:I-2 still manages visceral pleasures

  May 25, 2000

• Shout at the Mullet

  Call me a heretic, but this follicle fashion is cause for sheer terror

  January 27, 2000

• Son of Siam

  Anna and the King remake rates an "Aye!"

  December 23, 1999

• BLOODY GOOD SHOW

  March 30, 1995

• STALKING FEAT

  April 20, 1994

• Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino Makes the Nazi Occupation of France Ridiculously Fun

  August 20, 2009