Tom Breihan's posts

There may come a time in your life when, through choice or necessity, you will find yourself abandoning the…

It’s probably fair to say that John Woo went limping back to Hong Kong. In the ’80s and early ’90s, Woo changed the…

The moment when you discover what Starship Troopers is really about is one of the great eureka moments in the life…

Dolph Lundgren has had a couple of cups of coffee with the American pop-cultural psyche: haughtily sneering over…

Hong Kong action-movie directors have picked up a lot from Martin Scorsese. Think of John Woo in particular: the…

Imagine being alive in 1969 and going to see The Wild Bunch when it was new. It was released in an era when American…

In the opening scene of the 2014 South Korean thriller No Tears for the Dead, we see a dark, brooding figure,…

Sometime in the last month or two, a whole pile of Shaw Brothers kung fu movies suddenly appeared on Netflix. The…

I don’t know if I can call Matt Damon’s Bourne movies the best action franchise that’s come along thus far this…

The Bank Job is a movie that stars Jason Statham, but it’s not a Jason Statham movie. The chief attributes of his…

There’s a very good chance you’ve spent some time in the past few week binging on Narcos, the new Netflix show about…

The climax of 1982’s First Blood isn’t a gun battle or a knife fight. It’s Sylvester Stallone, as John Rambo,…

Rush Hour was a silly little action-comedy B-movie that blew the fuck up in 1998, and it was easy to get the sense,…

The whole point of the Jim Carrey movie The Mask is the idea of using CGI to combine a pretty standard and amiable…

By all accounts, Wes Craven was a lovely human being: a mild professorial type who made the people around him…

I’m pretty sure the first animated gif I ever saw was Jean-Claude Van Damme dancing in a Thai bar in Kickboxer. The…

When I was in high school, Hong Kong art-film superstar Wong Kar-Wai’s 1994 classic Chunking Express was one of…

A little while into the brutal 2014 indie The Guest, we get one of the most viscerally satisfying bully payback…

There’s a moment, early in Conan the Barbarian, when Arnold Schwarzenegger is wandering around some ancient city,…

There has never been a bad Mission: Impossible movie. They’ve all been ridiculous. They’ve all strained credulity.…