Action cinema would not be the same without John Woo. He helped launch the Hong Kong New Wave of the 1980s with "A Better ...

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, as ...

There’s a scene early on in John Woo’s Bullet in the Head (1990) that remains one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen are having a teary-eyed breakup ...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Matrix, and Raiders of the Lost Ark are all among the very best action movies ever made.

The 1990s delivered action movies that were as revolutionary as they were entertaining, changing the game with their approach ...

Funny, in a way, that Desperado isn’t much talked about as a contemporary Western. Maybe it was by default when it first came out, and maybe 30 years is too long for the word “contemporary” to still ...

Where did the idea for shooting with two guns come from? As Woo travels to France’s Lumière Festival to present 4K restorations of his most influential films, he explains the origins of his style. We ...