The cloud wisps that materialize into the written introduction of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame inform us in stately language that the film is set in the year 689 A.D., when the ...

Tsui Hark’s visually sumptuous Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a strong comeback for the veteran Hong Kong wuxia-maker. Magnificent and cheesy, the latest and most proudly absurd ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

A killer game of hide and seek.

In the iconic martial-arts director’s latest, an exiled hero has to figure out why imperial officials are spontaneously combusting all over the place. Think Crouching Tiger meets Sherlock Holmes, only ...