Just as you start to fret that all movie plots are alike, along comes Zhang Yimou’s action drama “Curse of the Golden Flower,” with a storyline that’s guaranteed to hoist an eyebrow or two. In ...

This one is a grand show of exquisite period costumes, stunning decor, elaborate martial-arts clashes and melodramatic plot twists. Indeed, Curse of the Golden Flower is one of the few worthy ...

Cast: Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye LiuDirector: Yimou ZhangProducer: William Kong His pretext is to celebrate the Chong Yang Festival with his family, but given the chilled relations between ...

Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower, which closed out last November’s AFI Festival, is now in release. Curse takes place on the eve of the Chrysanthemum Festival in the year 928 A.D. at the end ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Curse of the Golden Flower is easily the most visually sumptuous film around. It’s also the most sublimely silly one. That’s not ...

Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou follows Hero and The House Of Flying Daggers with Curse Of The Golden Flower, another historical yarn of "relentless elaborations". Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li star as the ...

Zhang Yimou’s The Curse of the Golden Flower might preview what the opening ceremonies at Beijing’s 2008 Olympics will look like. The director is orchestrating the festivities at China’s summer games, ...

Sometimes there's nothing as appealing as a good old-fashioned melodrama. What with Hollywood's propensity for glib human observations or even empty escapism, the power of a really heart-wrenching ...

Directed by Zhang Yimou. Starring Gong Li and Chow Yun-Fat. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Rated 14A. Opens Friday, December 22, at the Cinemark Tinseltown and the Ridge Is it just me, or have ...

Following Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou's series of stylised swordplay epics comes to an end in The Curse Of The Golden Flower, a characteristically stunning portrait of family ...