I have a new review of The Lady Hermit HERE at easternKicks. The Lady Hermit is one of my favorite movies. We’ve covered it on the podcast, I have covered it here, and I talk about it in Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate. It is a great Cheng-Pei Pei movie, and a wonderful Ho Meng-Hua…
The 14 Amazons is an amazing experience. It is one of those movies that is just special. The source material that has been covered in other movies, but never quite in this way (even the remake in 2011, despite its great cast, couldn’t quite capture its magic). I have a review of The 14 Amazons…
I have been working on a sandbox campaign for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate set in Zhang Chang prefecture. This might be released as a PDF or put up on the blog, as I would like to keep releasing material for the setting so GMs have an easier time running it. If I do put…
In the spirit of October I am converting monster entries from Strange Tales of Songling for Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. These are supernatural creatures inspired by Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. I will be doing a few monsters each post and not including every monster as Jeremy and I have been developing certain…
In the spirit of October I am converting monster entries from Strange Tales of Songling for Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. These are supernatural creatures inspired by Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. I will be doing a few monsters each post and not including every monster as Jeremy and I have been developing certain creatures for an…
In the spirit of October I am converting monster entries from Strange Tales of Songling for Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. These are supernatural creatures inspired by Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. I will be doing a few monsters each post and not including every monster as Jeremy and I have been developing certain creatures for an…
Art by Jackie Musto In the spirit of October I am converting monster entries from Strange Tales of Songling for Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. These are supernatural creatures inspired by Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. I will be doing a few monsters each post and not including every monster as Jeremy and I have been developing…
Witch from Nepal is a very interesting genre bending movie. Released in 1986 and directed by Ching Siu-Tung, it stars Chow Yun-Fat as Joe, a man who breaks his leg while vacationing in Nepal after visions of a mysterious woman. He returns to Hong Kong with his girlfriend, Ida to recover at a hospital where…
In the spirit of October I am converting monster entries from Strange Tales of Songling for Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. These are supernatural creatures inspired by Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Art by Jackie Musto I will be doing a few monsters each post and not including every monster as Jeremy and I have been…
Art by Jackie Musto In the spirit of October I am converting monster entries from Strange Tales of Songling for Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. These are supernatural creatures inspired by Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The monsters in Strange Tales of Songling mostly started as entries in this blog for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, in…
I have a review of The Enchanting Shadow up at easternKicks. If you haven’t seen this movie, it is the perfect film for Halloween. Anyone familiar with A Chinese Ghost Story knows the basic plot of a scholar seduced by a ghost. This film was a large influence on A Chinese Ghost Story, so it…
This began as a review of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, but I found my critiques were conveyed too harshly by text, so I recorded a podcast discussion on the subject (HERE). After that podcast, this post changed, exploring the popular saying “Frankenstein is the real monster” (which was one of the core ideas of the…