≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Girls With Guns/ Comedy/ Satire/ Action
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1988
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WORTH A LOOK
The main subject of Operation Pink Squad is the absolute terror than Hong Kong men had in the 80s of career women. It was the humiliation of women taking their jobs, the diminution of their sense of manhood, an assault on […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended, Satire | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Satire
Director: Tommy Leung
Year: 1991
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You Bet Your Life is emphatically not for Hong Kong newbies. In order to enjoy this flick, you have to have an appreciation of many of the cultural signposts of life in Hong Kong circa 1991. For example, gambling mania was so common and […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Satire/ Martial Arts
Director: Mang Hoi
Year: 1989
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
You’ve got to wonder what HK filmmakers saw in Cynthia Rothrock. Sure, she can fight, but she can’t act and she has negative charisma. Every time Cynthia shows up on the screen, she drags Lady Reporter AKA The Blonde Fury down to […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Satire
Director: Chiu Chung-Hing
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the first twenty minutes, I had no idea what kind of movie A Heroic Fight was, other than a comedy. It begins with a dead-on parody of triad flicks. I particularly enjoyed the way the filmmakers tweaked the convention of sliding something […]
