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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 […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a movie which is almost universally lauded as a deathless classic of Hong Kong’s Golden Age, A Chinese Ghost Story has a pretty lame first act.
The problem isn’t so much the story.
Scholar Ling Choi San […]
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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 […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Martial Arts/ Romance/ Action
Director: Alan Chan
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’d be hard pressed to describe Beyond The Copline as a “good” movie, but in it’s inimitably wacky way, it delivers a fair amount of entertainment value in a tawdry package.
The script by Wong Wai-Keung and Dick Lee starts out […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy / Martial Arts/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Yu Mang-Sang
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I really don’t know how good Zen of Sword is. I know, that sounds like a cop out, but hear me out. It can be really hard to get decent copies of these old Hong Kong flicks because the producers often […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Romance
Director: Wong Jing/ Jimmy Heung
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sometimes, when you seem to be winning, you’re actually losing.
This is certainly the case when Crab (Andy Lau) and Sam (Alan Tam), gamblers themselves, foil the scam of Japanese gamblers at a casino in Lake Tahoe as a favor […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy /Romance
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I might catch some flack for recommending Don’t Give A Damn AKA Burger Cop. It certainly has a poor reputation in the HK flicks fan community. Moreover, I understand why.
For the first solid hour, Don’t Give A Damn is about exactly nothing, although […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts / Comedy /Romance
Director: Johnnie To
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I first started watching The Bare-Footed Kid, I thought it would be a light-hearted martial arts tale along the lines of Iron Monkey. There isn’t a whole lot of ambiguity in the characters. The good guys are […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Once you kindle a flame in the heart of an Asian girl on the cusp of womanhood, it’s almost impossible to extinguish (with the possible exception of infidelity). That’s what triad solder Wah Dee (Andy Lau) learns when he repeatedly rescues rich girl […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Parkman Wong
Year: 1990
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Unmatchable Match supplies yet more proof that Stephen Chow, at least in the late 80s and early 90s, ruined pretty much every movie he appeared in. He isn’t remotely funny, clever or sympathetic. What makes things worse is that Chow clearly thought […]