THE BLADE (The Criterion Collection 4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
March 24th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
By the mid-1990s, Hong Kong cinema had already reinvented the martial arts film several times over. The old Shaw Brothers era had built the genre into something mythic and monumental, with directors like Chang Cheh and King Hu steering it in different directions. Chang toward masculine suffering and blood sacrifice, Hu toward poise, rhythm, and […]
