John Woo is the consummate filmmaker when it comes to crafting violent eye-candy. His gloriously mechanical technique provides a perfect fit for the hyper-stylized fury of his Chinese films like “Hard ...

WINDTALKERS: War drama. Starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach and Christian Slater. Directed by John Woo. (R. 130 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Windtalkers" tells a lukewarm story about some unknown ...

Windtalkers" are Navajo Indians, World War II Marines who devised an unbreakable battle coder to foil the Japanese in the Pacific. In a fictionalized tribute that challenges "Saving Private Ryan" for ...

NOTE: These interviews divulge key plot points of the upcoming Windtalkers film. In other words: look out for the spoilers! It's a brisk weekday afternoon in San Francisco when I find myself seated in ...

A lot of hot air. Running time: 134 minutes. Rated R (graphic violence, profanity). At the Kips Bay, the Chelsea, the Union Square, others. THE disappointing “Windtalkers” is a depressing example of ...

Windtalkers is a Second World War melodrama about a broken soul. But it strains to be a heroic saga about racial healing under fire. Director John Woo’s desire to make this movie a true epic ...

"Windtalkers," the newest WWII film -- following "Black Hawk Down" and "We Were Soldiers" in the recent war movie craze -- does nothing more than revitalize American ...

As Windtalkers dies a fairly rapid death at the box office, those who make a living analyzing such things have speculated that the film is bombing because of post-9/11 war fatigue, even though ...