Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Phillip Chan
Year: 1986

Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When you’re making hot chocolate, a fatal mistake is to put too much milk and sugar, and not enough chocolate. It may seem obvious that chocolate is what gives hot chocolate it’s flavor, but go to almost any coffee shop and you’ll find that […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Hong Kong is the birthplace of the dreaded nonsense comedy, the former British colony’s answer to Jerry Lewis. In other words, watching these so-called comedies is about as amusing as witnessing a partial abortion to most non-Chinese people. (Stephen Chow […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1986

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If it weren’t for the hard hitting martial arts and crazy stunts, I wouldn’t have believed that A Book Of Heroes came out in the late eighties. It feels more like the early 80s. Achingly saccharine pop hits like “Girls Just Wanna […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts
Director: Corey Yuen
Year: 1985

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In The Line of Duty II AKA Yes, Madam may be dominated by the ghastly comedy stylings of a rogues gallery of the worst nonsense comedians that Hong Kong had to offer, but director Corey Yuen pulls the film […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III
Director: Wang Zhenyang
Year: 2008

Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
1/3 Lover has a pretty decent premise for a Category III melodrama. When Mona (Murakami Rena) arrives illegally from mainland China, she is scooped up by corrupt cop Wan (Stuart Ong), who pimps out Mona in various scams in exchange for not shipping her […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Comedy
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 2003

Rating:

WORTH A LOOK
Fans of the Golden Age of Hong (1985-1995) have long been grousing that they don’t make ‘em like that anymore, which is true. Drunken Monkey demonstrates just how hard it is to recapture that old glory.
Drunken Monkey is an attempt to make a movie in […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Norman Law
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Walk On Fire is an usually understated cop drama for the Golden Age of Hong Kong (1985-1995). There is some gunplay, but it’s fairly restrained and standard. There are no outrageous stunts. The car stunts are standard. The direction by Norman Law […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1990

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Having just seen the horrible Liu Chia-Liang-directed Drunken Master III, I wanted to remind myself why I liked Liu Chia-Liang in the first place, so I decided to watch Tiger On The Beat II.
Like the first in the […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1994

Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When you create a followup to one of the greatest martial arts films of all time, you had better bring your A game. But legendary director/action choreographer/martial artist Liu Chia-Liang, who has directed such gems as the Tiger On The Beat flicks and […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Brandy Yuen/ Arthur Wong
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In The Line Of Duty III is far from an unqualified success, but it does have it’s compensations.
Often, with girls with guns flicks, plot and character are given short shrift, merely being a scafold on which […]