Movies
You’d think pretty much any actor alive who can do a halfway decent flying kick would jump at the chance to play a martial-arts-fighting, Force-sensitive monk in a “Star Wars” movie.
Dec. 19, 2016
Simultaneously overblown and underdeveloped, “Iceman” fails equally at showcasing the talent of its star and resolving its baroque plot.
Sept. 18, 2014
Star Donnie Yen’s hit 1993 film ‘Iron Monkey’ is at last coming to U.S. screens, thanks to ‘Crouching Tiger’s’ success.
Oct. 11, 2001
‘John Wick 4’ stars Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Sanada and pop star Rina Sawayama bring franchise-best action to Keanu Reeves’ hit-man series.
March 24, 2023
The concluding installment in the hit martial arts trilogy “Ip Man 3,” set in Hong Kong circa 1959, combines the customary, inventively choreographed action with an unexpected emotional depth, proving as hard to resist as its entertaining predecessors.
Jan. 21, 2016
Film scholar Tom Gunning coined the phrase “cinema of attractions” to describe the earliest, exhibitionist impulses of filmmaking, bits of spectacle that called attention to their own visibility and technological craft.
Jan. 19, 2017
‘Get up, Keanu!’ An unannounced premiere of ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ with Reeves and director Chad Stahelski sent the SXSW audience into a frenzy Monday.
March 13, 2023
Justin Chang reviews “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” which was directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker and Riz Ahmed.
Dec. 13, 2016
For those Hong Kong martial arts movie buffs who find their attention flagging during the nonfight scenes in the Donnie Yen-starrer “Kung Fu Killer,” there’s always Name the Cameo.
April 23, 2015
Donnie Yen takes a final bow as the martial arts master who trained Bruce Lee (Kwok-Kwan Chan) in this San Francisco-set kung fu film with racist bad guys.
Dec. 23, 2019