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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Fantasy/ Girls With Guns/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chi Li Tang
Year: 1991
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Bury Me High is nothing if not ambitious. What else do you call an adventure story about Feng Shui that incorporates a cast of thousands, military ordinance, voluminous explosions, kickass martial arts, and nutty stunts?
The plot […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Martial Arts/ Action
Director: Lau Kar-Wing
Year: 1990
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What can I say about Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon? Unless you added in a plethora of crazy Hong Kong style stuntwork, it’s about as good as it could be, given the premise and style of the piece.
Baldy Mak (Karl Maka) and […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Science Fiction/ Action
Director: Christopher Nolan
Year: 2010
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Give credit to writer/director Christopher Nolan for one thing: he’s got balls like an elephant. Inception is the most demanding piece of speculative fiction written for the screen in the history of movies.
Now, what do I mean by that? After all, we’ve already […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1992
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Underground Express AKA Long Arm of the Law IV isn’t quite as great as it’s predecessors, but you shouldn’t hold that against it.
One advantage the film has is a rich premise. In the aftermath of the Tienanmen Square massacre, Chinese pro-democracy […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Joe Cheung
Year: 1986
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Rosa starts and ends strong, but the middle is kind of flabby.
The action revolves around the title character, who was once the mistress of a mobster who has taken incriminating photos of the financial books of a triad kingpin and is trying […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2006
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I was initially less than enthusiastic about checking out Fatal Contact because it’s yet another movie about underground fighting, obviously designed to showcase star Jacky Wu Jing’s martial arts abilities. That seemed to me a failure of imagination on the part […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Jack Smight
Year: 1966
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For a modern audience, Harper will seem very dated. It is, but not as much as you’d think. The first thing you have to understand is that the whole movie is riffing on the private eye movie tradition that goes back to the […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1989
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Crocodile Hunter is a throwaway, one of hundreds of similar action comedies that were churned out during Hong Kong’s Golden Age. The plot, such as it is, is a mere excuse on which to hang shaggy action sequences and the comedic musings of writer/director/producer […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1993
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I was really jazzed when I sat down to watch Blade Of Fury. It came out in 1993, during Hong Kong’s golden age, was directed and choreographed by Sammo Hung, and stars the great Ti Lung. I figured it couldn’t miss.
I was a […]
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Country: Mexico
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Alex Rivera
Year: 2008
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Sleep Dealer starts out with a mindblowing vision: in the Mexico of the future, water rights are privatized at the point of a gun; the border to the United States is closed; Sleep Dealers — that is, virtual factories — run day and night in […]