Mar
11
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I have to admit, when I sat down to watch Long Arm Of The Law III, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot. The third entry in the series is fairly obscure, unlike it’s more famous predecessors, which I thought […]
Nov
28
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama/ Romance/ Suspense
Director: Wong Gam-Din
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
How is it possible that The Most Wanted is so weak? You’ve got a cast that includes Lau Ching Wan, Kent Cheng, Bowie Lam, and Robin Shou. In fact, the cast is uniformly strong. The basic plot is interesting, too. […]
Nov
18
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Raymond Lee
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Blue Lightning was one of the first Hong Kong flicks I ever saw, and it impressed the heck out of me at the time. I saw it on the big screen instead of on video, which probably made a difference.
Back then, I was […]
Nov
6
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you’re expecting one of those wildly exciting Hong Kong action pictures from the Golden Era (1985-1995), Organized Crime & Triad Bureau will probably disappoint you. Director Kirk Wong is going for something entirely different here. For Hong Kong cinema in the […]
May
10
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/Suspense/Drama
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Year: 2004
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
A perverse wallow in Asian female psychology from screenwriter Susan Chan, I hesitate to recommend Koma because so much of it will fly right over the heads of the average Western viewer.
Take for example the scene where the delicate and delectable Ching (Angelica Lee) takes off […]