Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential Jackie Chan films… Jackie Chan is the master of physical action comedy. His popularity has spread across the world from Hong Kong and China, to the west (even after early false starts to launch him as a star in the States). In the mid-80’s he was part of a […]
Have We Started To Settle For Mediocre Action Pieces?
George Chrysostomou asks whether we’ve started to settle for mediocre action pieces… The action film will forever be in its heyday, for conflict drives any narrative forward – especially when that conflict results in a showdown between two or more characters. Audiences will forever be drawn to the cinema to witness larger than life sequences, […]