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‘Tornado’ Director John Maclean on His Latest Foray Into Westerns, This Time with Added Samurai (Video Interview)

It’s been ten years since filmmaker John Maclean burst onto the scene with the appropriately-named Western Slow West. For his second feature, Tornado, he remains in a similar time period, but moves the story to the British Isles where a Japanese puppeteer and samurai (Takehiro Hira) and his daughter (Kôki) run afoul of a group…

“Tornado” Review : Deconstructing the Romantic Image of the Highwaymen and Other Supposedly Picaresque Bandits

©Courtesy of IFC Films  Touring has always been hard on performers, but it is particularly tough for “Tornado” traveling through the 1790s Scottish Highlands. She and her exiled Samurai father stage Japanese-themed Punch-and-Judy-like puppet shows that incorporate real-life martial arts demonstrations. Unfortunately, she will need all the combat skills her father taught her to avoid…

TV Review: Should You be Excited to Return to the World of “Willow”?

Though they may have been panned by critics upon release, the post Star Wars Lucas Films productions of Howard the Duck and Willow meant a lot to children of the 80’s, like me. If something new was out to rent at the video store, I’d tell my parents to rent Willow, again. When it came…