Ninja Assassin News

Hallyu star Rain is having a blast these days. A documentary on the life and career of the Korean wave star took home three awards at the 14th Asian Television Awards held in Singapore.

It's impossible to avoid the color red around the holiday season. Every store is bedecked in red , red ribbons adorn car grills, poinsettias occupy any unused space and people don red sweaters, coats, ties, scarves and, for all we know, prosthetic legs and colostomy bags.

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At this point it's no secret that Ninja Assassin was an abysmal work of ninja-ness, but Hollywood seems intent on trying again.

The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other clich Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman enters the lair and announces, "I got something for ya, boss." It's an envelope full of ...

Today I submit a question with my review: What guy doesn't like a stupid action movie? Guys love explosions, blood, gunfire, babes and battles.

The successful star-studded drama 'Iris' is such a big hit in Korea that producers announced this week a second season is being planned for 2010.

In cinema, the samurai warrior has traditionally represented the heroic martial arts expert who risks everything on the field of battle adhering to a code of honor that is uncompromising.

Right from the start - man's head sliced off above his lower jaw - this movie gets a O, as in Type-O. It and every other type of blood is on display here, spattering across the screen as if it's a canvas for a hemophiliac Jackson Pollock.

Genre: Martial Arts Directed by: James McTeigue Starring: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi, Rick Yune It's not every day that I get to say that a movie really goes downhill after the scene with the severed head in the Laundromat washing machine, but that's the unfortunate truth with James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin .

South Korean pop singer Rain plays Raizo, a ninja out to bring down his former clan in the action film "Ninja Assassin." Helping him is Mika .

Naomie Harris is easily the 10th-best thing about Ninja Assassin , given that her role is to be the "regular" girl thrown into these extraordinary circumstances, and all she gets to do is scream and look shocked and occasionally swap one-liners with Rain.

Weathering the storm: Korean pop-star Rain is a most dangerous "Assassin." Ninja Assassin : R: strong bloody violence, language; 1:39; $ 1 2 Expectations for fresh options at the multiplex once Thanksgiving arrives veer toward disaster, teen angst or family-friendly. Thus, the surprise when " Ninja Assassin " was scheduled among the first wave of ...

Move over, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. A young Asian star is about to rain on their action parades.

Korean heartthrob 'Rain' performed a solo concert called the "Legend of Rainism" at the Asia World Expo Arena on Saturday.

JAction. Starring Naomie Harris and Rain. Directed by James McTeigue. Images View More Images Video View Larger Size On the long list of things the world doesn't need any more of - bank failures, global warming and a handsome teenager who turns into Frankenstein in the next "Twilight" movie - we need to add Bad Movies With the Word "Ninja" in the ...

"This is like the Saving Private Ryan for ninjas!" After having to sit through Ninja Assassin at Fantastic Fest, I was personally clamoring for some real ninja action - something that didn't feel like a hyper-stylized cartoon.

Ninja Assassin, starring Korean pop star Rain, is getting the predictably lousy reviews such films ordinarily elicit.

The Box-Office Top Five #1 "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" #2 "The Blind Side" #3 "2012" #4 "Old Dogs" #5 "A Christmas Carol" Moviegoers expecting a clash between vampires and ninjas at the box office this weekend witnessed a surprising development as the greatest competition facing "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" wasn't the debuting "Ninja Assassin," ...

Thursday's preem of Warner Bros.' "Ninja Assassin" at the Chinese had director James McTeigue smiling afterward.