≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Comedy, Fantasy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ 1 Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Bullet Ballet/ Fantasy/ Romance
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Try to imagine this: a Chow Yun-Fat film with action choreography by the great Phillip Kwok and co-starring the gorgeous Ng Sin-Lin and Gordon Liu that is completely, utterly worthless and unwatchable. Doesn’t seem possible, does it?
I would have never […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Director: Stephen Chow
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
How much you appreciate Kung Fu Hustle will depend largely on how big a fan you are of the fantasy wuxia and triad genres. If you don’t know what those are, you’ll have to make due with context-less broad comedy and action, ala The […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Fantasy
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I can’t quite recommend The Magic Crane, but that doesn’t mean it lacks entertainment value. The Magic Crane is one of many fantasy wuxia movies that were popular in Hong Kong during the early 1990s. I actually thought it was filmed in the late 1980s […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I can’t really recommend Green Snake to the typical reader of Trash Cinema Club, but not because it isn’t any good.
Some flicks just don’t translate well to a Western audience. China has a tradition of animism, which holds that animals have souls. It also has a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/Action/Romance
Director: Corey Yuen
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
A discombobulating pastiche of fantasy, romance, farce, action, and costume pageantry, Savior of the Soul is the wacky masterpiece that made me a lifetime fan of Hong Kong film.
As our story begins, city soldier Mae (a smolderingly sensual Anita Mui) has foiled the assasination of […]