JUDGE ARCHER Rules With A New Trailer From Lionsgate Unlocked
Director and acclaimed novelist Xu Haofeng’s 2012 theatrical foray, Judge Archer, has been a long-awaited one. The film, following up from its short story roots in Xu’s “Hiding Behind The Blade” anthology, marks a second effort in the chair for Xu who has since already made a small-yet-steadily growing name for himself since his 2011 debut, The Sword Identity. Even moreso and on top of his screenwriting accomplishments, his latest, The Final Master, went on to win a few accolades and nods before opening in select theaters back in June. It’s the sort of thing that makes you wish you could have seen these films in their succession though almost any rollout of Chinese productions to other territories is at a snail’s pace at best, so, imaginably, it’s not entirely your fault. At any rate, it appears now is as good a time as it can get for Xu’s sophomore […]