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Chanbara and Wuxia and Podcasts, Oh My!

This is a rumination based on an interchange with the podcast Jianghu Hustle. The podcast is a consideration of wuxia and adjacent cinema in regards to RPGs. I love it because the hosts are really great at critically and enthusiastically Read more…


Sword Of Destiny

While I wasn’t thrilled with it, Sword of Destiny, the sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, only minimally disappointed. I honestly wasn’t expect much more than a chance to see Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh in a half-decent kung-fu movie. Read more…


Review: the Grandmaster

I haven’t written about the Grandmaster, the new movie about Ip Man directed by Wong Kar Wai. I watched it, I loved it, and I really want to see it again because I watched it on a seat-back monitor on Read more…


Review: Iron Monkey

While I am a fan of martial arts movies, my knowledge of them is pretty pedestrian. I know the high points, but there have been a lot of important works that I’ve missed. In at least one case, that has Read more…


Master of Devils, a Review

I heard of Master of Devils from an article at Tor.com that referred to the characters Varian Jeggare and Radovan Virholt as the new Fafhrd and Gray Mouser. In the article, it mentioned some of the novels that included Jeggare Read more…