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Chow Yun-fat takes the lead in this scene from John Woo’s patchy but occasionally brilliant follow up to his own A Better Tomorrow.

Playing the twin brother of the character of the role he played in the original, we first meet him as the owner of a restaurant on New York. When a guy from a protection racket tries to threaten him and his business, Chow Yun-fat flies into a full on Robert De Niro impression – in English – expounding how rice is like his mother and father! The scene even ends with the line “You talking to me?”

The Man From Nowhere owes a great deal of it’s conception to Taken, written and produced by French filmmaker Luc Besson, but only hints at a mutual appreciation towards Eastern cinema. To celebrate its upcoming release on UK DVD, we take a closer look at this special relationship… (more…)

Director Daniel Lee is back, this time with Donnie Yen and Vicky Zhao in tow – thank god this is an improvement on Three Kingdoms then… (more…)

A spell binding and often perplexing vision – it’s Wong Kai-wai’s much anticipated sequel to In the Mood for Love… (more…)

Next Monday quite possibly the best martial arts/kung fu film ever finally makes its way on to DVD in UK! (more…)

Actually saucy doesn’t even cover it! Seriously is only for Adults only, distributor Metrodome have left us in no quandary about just how sexy 3D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy gets with this so-called ‘Red Band’ trailer. Well, it is an 18 certificate after all!

(For ‘Red Band’, read those funny little red triangles you used to get on Channel 4 all those years ago. Except I’m guessing this’ll be something folks will want to watch, not some weird art movie…)

It’s shattered box office records across the Asia Pacific region, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and grossed over $1m on just 6 screens in Australia. In the UK it will be exclusively in Odeon Cinemas. Is this what 3D was for?

3D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy comes to UK cinemas next Friday, 2 September.

Just remember if you watch the trailer, it is an adult movie… okay?

Just been to an FDA screening of 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy. Bit of a mixed reaction to say the least: some folks left halfway through (yes, I will be reading what you say about the end!) and I definitely heard snoring near the end – but Mark Kermode seemed to be appropriately combing his quiff in the bathroom and The Observer’s Philip French was in attendance too! We’ll be bringing you our thoughts later in the week…

…in the meantime, here’s a clip (NOT FOR MINORS!)

Oooooh er, missus! easternKicks gets all saucy with the director of the new 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy movie, Christopher Sun Lap-Key. But you’d almost think it was more of a ‘chick flick’ to hear him describe it… (more…)