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The long-lost original workprint first cut of John Woo's definitive 1980s heroic bloodshed movie A Better Tomorrow 2 has been discovered and it's coming out on Blu-Ray for the first time This is huge news! Woo's original cut of the movie was 30 minutes longer than the 107-minute theatrical release that became the quintessential Hong[...]

The John Wick movies wouldn't exist if they didn't make those Heroic Bloodshed movies of the 80s and 90s Quentin's first feature-length movie Shopping For Fangs featured a blonde-wigged hitwoman character inspired by Brigitte Lin's character in Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express I just decided to continue that homage to Asian movie hitmen motif in[...]