It’s interesting to note that the two Marvel Cinematic Movies of the fall are the ones that hew furthest away from the source material. In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, out now in both streaming and disc, it makes the most sense because the original Master of Kung-Fu comic was very much a product of its time. Capitalizing on the kung fu craze of the early 1970s, it also melded the comic with Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, the epitome of the Yellow Menace, a pulp magazine staple.
But, boiled down, the story is about fathers and sons and legacy, a solid framework that writers Dave Callaham, Andrew Lanham developed with co-writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton. While jettisoning the stereotypes, we have instead Xu Wenwu (Tony Keung), a near-immortal being who has amassed power and wealth across the centuries but doesn’t find happiness until he...
But, boiled down, the story is about fathers and sons and legacy, a solid framework that writers Dave Callaham, Andrew Lanham developed with co-writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton. While jettisoning the stereotypes, we have instead Xu Wenwu (Tony Keung), a near-immortal being who has amassed power and wealth across the centuries but doesn’t find happiness until he...
- 11/23/2021
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
The Fu Manchu Cycle—1965-1969
Blu ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1965 – 1969 / 96, 93, 91, 94, 92 min. / 2:33:1, 1:85, 1:66
Starring Christoper Lee, Tsai Chin
Cinematography by Ernest Steward, John Von Kotze, Manuel Merino
Directed by Don Sharp, Jeremy Summers, Jesús Franco
Arthur Henry Ward was born in Birmingham in 1883—at the age of 20 he adopted the pen name of Sax Rohmer, specializing in standard issue crime fiction and otherworldly tales of terror. In 1912 he folded both genres into one sinister figure from the East, a so-called “devil doctor” named Fu Manchu. The book covers alone were xenophobic horror shows and if there was any doubt the stories themselves were wildly racist, the author confirmed it in the description of his star villain: “the Yellow Peril incarnate in one man.”
An authority on philosophy, medicine, and idiosyncratic torture devices, Manchu made his debut in The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu which was quickly followed by The Return of Dr.
Blu ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1965 – 1969 / 96, 93, 91, 94, 92 min. / 2:33:1, 1:85, 1:66
Starring Christoper Lee, Tsai Chin
Cinematography by Ernest Steward, John Von Kotze, Manuel Merino
Directed by Don Sharp, Jeremy Summers, Jesús Franco
Arthur Henry Ward was born in Birmingham in 1883—at the age of 20 he adopted the pen name of Sax Rohmer, specializing in standard issue crime fiction and otherworldly tales of terror. In 1912 he folded both genres into one sinister figure from the East, a so-called “devil doctor” named Fu Manchu. The book covers alone were xenophobic horror shows and if there was any doubt the stories themselves were wildly racist, the author confirmed it in the description of his star villain: “the Yellow Peril incarnate in one man.”
An authority on philosophy, medicine, and idiosyncratic torture devices, Manchu made his debut in The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu which was quickly followed by The Return of Dr.
- 10/31/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
All bets are off as acting veteran Tsai Chin swindles a ruthless gang in wildly chaotic crime-ridden comedy “Lucky Grandma“.
Fast-paced and full of heart, laughs and wicked black humour set in the belly of New York’s Chinatown, “Lucky Grandma” tells the story of a cardigan clad, chain-smoking Chinese grandma who, in an attempt to get some cash, goes all in at a casino but lands herself on the wrong side of luck and the law. Having gambled away more than just chips after stealing money from a dead criminal boss, ‘Grandma’ hires a rival gangland bodyguard to protect her from a band of violent crooks who are hot on her tail and ready to reclaim the loot.
With a film career stretching back to the fifties, actor Tsai Chi starred alongside Christopher Lee in the cult favourite “Fu Manchu”-film series, was a Bond girl alongside Sean Connery...
Fast-paced and full of heart, laughs and wicked black humour set in the belly of New York’s Chinatown, “Lucky Grandma” tells the story of a cardigan clad, chain-smoking Chinese grandma who, in an attempt to get some cash, goes all in at a casino but lands herself on the wrong side of luck and the law. Having gambled away more than just chips after stealing money from a dead criminal boss, ‘Grandma’ hires a rival gangland bodyguard to protect her from a band of violent crooks who are hot on her tail and ready to reclaim the loot.
With a film career stretching back to the fifties, actor Tsai Chi starred alongside Christopher Lee in the cult favourite “Fu Manchu”-film series, was a Bond girl alongside Sean Connery...
- 9/24/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Actor/Producer David Arquette joins Joe & Josh to discuss the movies that made him.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Scream (1996)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
3,000 Miles To Graceland (2001)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Spree (2020)
Gremlins (1984)
Muppets From Space (1999)
It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Unforgiven (1992)
The World According To Garp (1982)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Slap Shot (1977)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)
Insomnia (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Last House On the Left (1972)
The Tripper (2006)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Funny Bones (1995)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Wild Style (1982)
The Shining (1980)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Dreamscape (1984)
Brainstorm (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Warriors (1979)
Commando (1985)
Somewhere In Time (1980)
Escape From New York (1981)
Being There (1979)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Targets (1968)
Pleasantville (1998)
Hidden Agenda...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Scream (1996)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
3,000 Miles To Graceland (2001)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Spree (2020)
Gremlins (1984)
Muppets From Space (1999)
It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Unforgiven (1992)
The World According To Garp (1982)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Slap Shot (1977)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)
Insomnia (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Last House On the Left (1972)
The Tripper (2006)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Funny Bones (1995)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Wild Style (1982)
The Shining (1980)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Dreamscape (1984)
Brainstorm (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Warriors (1979)
Commando (1985)
Somewhere In Time (1980)
Escape From New York (1981)
Being There (1979)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Targets (1968)
Pleasantville (1998)
Hidden Agenda...
- 8/18/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Zev Braun, who produced the Vietnam-set CBS drama Tour of Duty and an Oscar-nominated documentary about German screen legend Marlene Dietrich, died Oct. 17 in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was 90.
Braun also produced such features as The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), starring Jodie Foster, and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), starring Peter Sellers; telefilms including 1979's Freedom Road, starring Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, 1994's Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills and 2014's The Gabby Douglas Story; and such series as Murphy's Law and Bagdad Cafe.
Tour of Duty, which ...
Braun also produced such features as The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), starring Jodie Foster, and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), starring Peter Sellers; telefilms including 1979's Freedom Road, starring Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, 1994's Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills and 2014's The Gabby Douglas Story; and such series as Murphy's Law and Bagdad Cafe.
Tour of Duty, which ...
- 10/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Zev Braun, who produced the Vietnam-set CBS drama Tour of Duty and an Oscar-nominated documentary about German screen legend Marlene Dietrich, died Oct. 17 in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was 90.
Braun also produced such features as The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), starring Jodie Foster, and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), starring Peter Sellers; telefilms including 1979's Freedom Road, starring Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, 1994's Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills and 2014's The Gabby Douglas Story; and such series as Murphy's Law and Bagdad Cafe.
Tour of Duty, which ...
Braun also produced such features as The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), starring Jodie Foster, and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), starring Peter Sellers; telefilms including 1979's Freedom Road, starring Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, 1994's Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills and 2014's The Gabby Douglas Story; and such series as Murphy's Law and Bagdad Cafe.
Tour of Duty, which ...
- 10/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Zev Braun, a TV and film producer whose credits include the acclaimed CBS Vietnam War series Tour of Duty (1987-1990), died peacefully in Los Angeles on Oct. 17, just two days shy of his 91st birthday.
Braun got his start in show business with his debut of the film Goldstein, which he produced with his cousin Philip Kaufman; the film screened at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, and shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique with Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution.
Productions or co-productions in the 1970s included The Pedestrian; the horror film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen; Angela, starring Sophia Loren and John Huston; Freedom Road, starring Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson; and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, starring Peter Sellers and Helen Mirren.
In the ’80s, Braun’s credits include TV and features such as Stillwatch, starring Lynda Carter...
Braun got his start in show business with his debut of the film Goldstein, which he produced with his cousin Philip Kaufman; the film screened at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, and shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique with Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution.
Productions or co-productions in the 1970s included The Pedestrian; the horror film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen; Angela, starring Sophia Loren and John Huston; Freedom Road, starring Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson; and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, starring Peter Sellers and Helen Mirren.
In the ’80s, Braun’s credits include TV and features such as Stillwatch, starring Lynda Carter...
- 10/29/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Medak’s new documentary “The Ghost of Peter Sellers,” about the catastrophic production of the actor’s failed 1973 pirate comedy “Ghost in the Noonday Sun,” begins with a little back-patting.
Medak, who also directed the classic films “The Ruling Class” and “The Changeling,” says he’s fairly certain that no filmmaker has ever made a movie about the making of his own movie before. “It’s incredible,” he remarks. And also “completely insane.”
That statement isn’t strictly true. Richard Rush made a documentary about his Oscar-nominated drama “The Stunt Man” called “The Sinister Saga of Making ‘The Stunt Man,'” and Richard Stanley catalogued his catastrophic production of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (which was eventually finished by John Frankenheimer) in “Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s ‘Island of Dr. Moreau.'” But it’s always intriguing, regardless, to look back at what was, what could have been,...
Medak, who also directed the classic films “The Ruling Class” and “The Changeling,” says he’s fairly certain that no filmmaker has ever made a movie about the making of his own movie before. “It’s incredible,” he remarks. And also “completely insane.”
That statement isn’t strictly true. Richard Rush made a documentary about his Oscar-nominated drama “The Stunt Man” called “The Sinister Saga of Making ‘The Stunt Man,'” and Richard Stanley catalogued his catastrophic production of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (which was eventually finished by John Frankenheimer) in “Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s ‘Island of Dr. Moreau.'” But it’s always intriguing, regardless, to look back at what was, what could have been,...
- 9/8/2018
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Don Kaye Jan 13, 2020
Universal's Son of Frankenstein capped off the first great movie trilogy after the first two great James Whale movies.
On Jan. 13, 1939, Universal Pictures released Son of Frankenstein, the follow-up to 1931’s Frankenstein and 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein. Bride itself was an unprecedented event: the first major sequel to a horror film, it not only continued the story established in the first movie but expanded upon it with more characters and an even richer storyline. Sequels were considered for a long time by studios as quick cash grabs, usually done on the cheap and often lacking the qualities that made the original film a success. The idea of a sequel continuing the story, with the same kind of production values, storytelling, and craft, was almost unheard of when director James Whale made Bride; a third film created with the same care hardly seemed possible.
And yet Son of Frankenstein...
Universal's Son of Frankenstein capped off the first great movie trilogy after the first two great James Whale movies.
On Jan. 13, 1939, Universal Pictures released Son of Frankenstein, the follow-up to 1931’s Frankenstein and 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein. Bride itself was an unprecedented event: the first major sequel to a horror film, it not only continued the story established in the first movie but expanded upon it with more characters and an even richer storyline. Sequels were considered for a long time by studios as quick cash grabs, usually done on the cheap and often lacking the qualities that made the original film a success. The idea of a sequel continuing the story, with the same kind of production values, storytelling, and craft, was almost unheard of when director James Whale made Bride; a third film created with the same care hardly seemed possible.
And yet Son of Frankenstein...
- 1/13/2015
- Den of Geek
Steve Franken, who played the snobby, rich kid Chatsworth on the 1960s TV show The Many Lives Of Dobie Gillis, has died after battling cancer, the New York Times reports. He was 80. His wife says Franken passed away August 24 at home in Los Angeles. In a television and film career that spanned more than 50 years, Franken appeared on numerous TV shows including Bewitched, Love, American Style, The Lieutenant and Seinfeld. Franken was born in Queens in 1932, graduated from Cornell University and began his acting career on the stage in New York City. He nabbed the role of Chatsworth when he went to Los Angeles to appear in José Ferrer’s production of Edwin Booth. Franken’s film credits include The Party, The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu, Which Way To The Front?, Hardly Working, The Missouri Breaks and The Americanization Of Emily.
- 8/30/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
I was driving through Griffith Park, on my way to don my monkey puppet for the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, when I went past the filming for Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill. In it, he plays both the brother and annoying sister of the title. As I went past, I saw Mr. Sandler decked out in his requisite fat suit and wig, spazzing around on a soccer field. I was the scariest thing I saw all night.
As an actor, I always wonder why certain folks feel the need to play several characters in the same film. I'm not talking about when actors have to play twin brothers or sisters or what have you, I mean that they play two separate characters entirely. It always seems odd to me. And it always seems like there are several actors who do this more frequently than most.
I think the record...
As an actor, I always wonder why certain folks feel the need to play several characters in the same film. I'm not talking about when actors have to play twin brothers or sisters or what have you, I mean that they play two separate characters entirely. It always seems odd to me. And it always seems like there are several actors who do this more frequently than most.
I think the record...
- 1/25/2011
- by Brian Prisco
After the Academy’s attempt at honoring genre during the live show, we saw a real tribute to horror by someone who is truly one of our own. Bob Murawski thanked Sam Raimi for giving him his “first cutting job” in Army of Darkness. His Best Editing award for Hurt Locker was shared by his partner Chris Innis, whom he met on the Raimi produced TV show “American Gothic.”
I gotta say, never since Peter Jackson’s (who was nominated this year for District 9) thank you to the crew of Meet the Feebles has there been such an excellent genre shout out.
On top of working with Raimi for over a decade, Murawski also runs Grindhouse Releasing, which distributes and restores cult and horror films with a focus on extreme Italian cinema. Pieces, The Beyond, Cannibal Holocaust, and I Drink Your Blood are just a few names you’ll find in Grindhouse Releasing's catalogue.
I gotta say, never since Peter Jackson’s (who was nominated this year for District 9) thank you to the crew of Meet the Feebles has there been such an excellent genre shout out.
On top of working with Raimi for over a decade, Murawski also runs Grindhouse Releasing, which distributes and restores cult and horror films with a focus on extreme Italian cinema. Pieces, The Beyond, Cannibal Holocaust, and I Drink Your Blood are just a few names you’ll find in Grindhouse Releasing's catalogue.
- 3/11/2010
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
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Cinema Retro Issue #15 (2009)
Lee Marvin tribute issue with unpublished interview from 1974 Analyzing "Prime Cut" starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman Sir Christopher Lee discusses the making of the Fu Manchu films in an exclusive interview Interview with Richard Tuggle, screenwriter of Clint Eastwood's "Escape from Alcatraz" Exclusive interview with James Caan Exclusive interview with Shirley Anne Field The making of "The Red Shoes". Alistair McLean's "Golden Rendezvous", "Bear Island" and "Caravan to Vaccares" "The Films from U.N.C.L.E." continues with "The Helicopter Spies" The making...
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Cinema Retro Issue #15 (2009)
Lee Marvin tribute issue with unpublished interview from 1974 Analyzing "Prime Cut" starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman Sir Christopher Lee discusses the making of the Fu Manchu films in an exclusive interview Interview with Richard Tuggle, screenwriter of Clint Eastwood's "Escape from Alcatraz" Exclusive interview with James Caan Exclusive interview with Shirley Anne Field The making of "The Red Shoes". Alistair McLean's "Golden Rendezvous", "Bear Island" and "Caravan to Vaccares" "The Films from U.N.C.L.E." continues with "The Helicopter Spies" The making...
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