≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Director: Sherman Wong
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Enigma Of Love is that rarest of beasts, an excellent Hong Kong flick that doesn’t rely on action to make it’s point.
When Jackie’s (Jacky Cheung) gigolo bar is busted by tough cop Tammy (Maggie Cheung), he decides to humiliate her […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while there, I thought that Jail In Burning Island aka The Jailbreakers was going to be a superior prison flick, maybe not at the caliber of Prison On Fire, Cool Hand Luke or The Shawshank Redemption, but what […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 1991
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s odd that Zodiac Killers amounts to so little when there is so much good work here.
Let’s start with the fresh subject matter. Zodiac Killers is about folks from the Chinese diaspora (Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) who come to Japan to study […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Poon Man-Kit
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I am taking the unusual step of writing about Lord Of East China Sea and Lord Of East China Sea II in the same review because they’re really one five hour movie, cut arbitrarily in two.
This is going to sound funny, but five hours […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Fung Hak-On
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s probably unfair to Edge Of Darkness that I’m only getting around to watching it now. Had I seen it when it came out in 1988, it would have blown me out of the back of the theater.
Back then, stories […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Drama/ Action
Director: Jeng Cheong-Woh
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
How can you not love 5 Fingers of Death AKA King Boxer?
The first big laugh comes seconds into the picture when composer Wu Da-Jiang appropriates a snippet of the theme music from the old Raymond Burr television series Ironside (now we know […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Action
Director: Joe Cheung
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Okay, I’ll admit that Return Engagement isn’t a great film, but it sure is fun.
In Vancouver, Lung (Alan Tang), a triad leader, is embroiled in a mob war with the Italians. In spite of his wife’s entreaties (Carrie Ng, in a cameo), […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Action
Director: Lawrence Lau
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
This review actually covers two movies, Lee Rock I and Lee Rock II. I’ve taken that unusual step because, more than most movies and their sequels, Lee Rock I and Lee Rock II form a cohesive whole, a continuous story. Screenwriters Chan Man-Keung […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Casino Tycoon is a rather interesting film in some ways. It has reasonably compelling characters and a wealth of incident, and yet it doesn’t possess the headlong drive typical of the best Golden Age of Hong Kong flicks. It’s passably entertaining, but in the […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
During the Golden Age of Hong Kong (1985-1995), producers treated their movies like disposable product, to be dropped into theaters for a couple weeks for a quick buck and then forgotten. Nobody had the foresight to realize that these films would matter a generation […]