Welcome back to Wizard Jail – a limited run series from Director’s Club, Tracks of the Damned, and 96 Greers podcast co-host Patrick Ripoll and Genre Grinder creator Gabe Powers where they talk about, what else, but the 1987 syndicated cartoon series Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light. We’ve been off the clock for about six months now, but we’re back with the penultimate podcast, covering episode twelve, Honor Among Thieves – a mile a minute mish-mash of new monsters,

1978 was the big turning point year for young Jackie Chan. Director Yuen Woo-ping had finally unlocked his comedic potential with a pair of hits, Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Master, Chen Chi-hwa utilized his newfound charisma in Half a Loaf of Kung Fu and Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin, and, finally, producer/director/production company head Lo Wei tapped him for two more films, Spiritual Kung Fu and, the subject of this review, Magnificent Bodyguards, which was no

Arguably, the most important figure of the first Hong Kong New Wave (along with Ann Hui), Tsui Hark became best remembered for directing and producing lavish special effects fantasies, supernatural comedies, wuxia melodramas, and heroic bloodshed shoot ‘em ups that re-introduced Hong Kong filmmaking to Western audiences, eventually legitimizing the region’s box office viability alongside the likes of Jackie Chan, John Woo, Sammo Hung, and...

Post-WWII, following many years of decline, the Australian film industry was rescued by a concerted, government-supported effort to fund new films and train new filmmakers via the Australian Film Television and Radio School. As a result, more than 400 new movies were released between 1970 and 1985. Starting (arguably) with Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971), international audiences were introduced to a new brand of artistic drama, followed by a new brand of rowdy comedy in Bruce