For a movie where a man saves himself from falling by stuffing fingers in another man’s nostrils, “Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons” is remarkably sophisticated. Writer-director Stephen Chow ...
Buddha's palm strikes the evil Monkey King. Gore, laughter and the feel-good factor rolled into one Extremism has always been Stephen Chow's game: a confusingly apocalyptic amalgam of gut-wrenching ...
Stephen Chow‘s Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons quickly took off upon its international release in early 2013, earning praise for and winning audiences with its (typical of the ...
Visuals are more dazzling than the storytelling in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons." Visuals are more dazzling than the storytelling in “Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons.” A ...
Stephen Chow is back in box-office storming form with this lucrative update of one of China's most beloved literary epics. By Elizabeth Kerr Combine rapidly increasing screen numbers, a voracious ...
The film opens in a seaside village, where a fisherman playfully warns his five-year-old daughter of water-dwelling demons. One parental practical joke later, a mighty gilled beast bounds in and ...
The pic is the umpteenth movie inspired by Wu Cheng-en’s classic 16th century novel “Journey to the West.” The source material about the arrival of Buddhism in China provided the basis for “A Chinese ...