The suspect in a robbery of a Subway restaurant Monday night in Exposition Park was armed with more than a gun, according to Los Angeles police. He also wielded a green pool noodle. Around 7:30 p.m.

There may be no way to get you interested in Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop” without making it sound like a minor and weird imitation of something else, rather than ...

“A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop” is Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou’s whimsical and witty homage to “Blood Simple,” the Coen brothers’ 1985 feature debut, itself a satire as much as murderous thriller.

If you're going to remake a movie that was as well-done the first go-round as "Blood Simple" -- the dark, attention-getting 1985 debut of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers -- then you'd better do ...

Not another remake! But wait - this is a Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers' first film, Blood Simple. Yep, the filmmaker behind Jet Li's Hero and House of Flying Daggers (and the 2008 Summer ...

Few know the sensitive, exotic and violent secrets of the successful noodle chain that is Lanzhou Lamian, or "Chinese KFC" to its many millions of fans across the nation. The Ministry of Commerce ...

“A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop” is Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou’s whimsical and witty homage to “Blood Simple,” the Coen brothers’ 1985 feature debut, itself a satire as much as murderous thriller.

A high-rolling but garish production with untranslatable regional ribald humor, it is aimed squarely at the China market, where the genre of "e gao" (comic brawls and rascally high jinks) is all the ...