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Screenshots from Stranglehold, 2007

JOHN WOO PRESENTS STRANGLEHOLD
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Midway Games Ltd. Available for PC, PS3, Xbox 360. £34.99-£49.99

Come on, we've all dreamt about flying into that room, a gun in each hand blazing away - well, now's your chance to recreate those scenes and more... [Read more about Stranglehold]

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Screenshots from Oldboy

DON'T LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE REAL WORLD? BLAME THE MOVIES

In the wake of the tragedy at Virgina Tech, all the media can seem to fixate on is the fact that the assailant may have watched Oldboy a few times too many... [Can we really blame the films everytime a tragedy like this happens?]

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MORE HEROICS, LESS GRACE

It's hard not to be a little disappointed in the second Heroic Grace season at the newly rebranded BFI Southbank (formally known as the National Film Theatre)... [Read more on the BFI's Heroic Grace season]

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Screenshots from The Grudge, 2004

THE CUTTING BLADE

The Contender Group are doing a great job of distributing Asian movies in UK cinemas, but are they going to far to get them a Western audience?... [Read more on how film distributor's are changing Asian films]

Wanted: on DVD
Picture of a woman in a DVD store

PLEASE RELEASE ME...

In the UK we've never had a wider selection of titles to watch on DVD - so why are so many classics being overlooked?... [Read more about the DVDs we'd like to see released in the UK]

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Screengrabs from Jonathan Ross Asian Invasion

LESS LIKE AN INVASION, MORE LIKE A FORAY...

Jonathan Ross' Asian Invasion was a neat introduction for the uninitiated, but did it go far enough for the rest of us?... [Read more about Asian Invasion]

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Screenshots from A Better Tomorrow 2, 1987

"You don't like my rice? You don't
like my rice?... Mama mia!"

FILM: A BETTER TOMORROW II (1987)
TIME CHECK: 25 MIN

Chow Yan-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 Yan-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?"

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Screenshots from The Killer, The Bride with White Hair and Rouge

HONG KONG MOVIES

The bite size guide for those of you who loved Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but were too afraid to ask where to go next... these are the ten Hong Kong movies you MUST see! [more]

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Screenshots from The Grudge, 2004

THE GRUDGE 2

It's been several months since my last rant, but my preoccupation is still the same. The current, overwhelming obsession Hollywood has with Asia... [more]

Screenshots from Dawn of the Dead, 2004 and Gothika, 2003

MONSTER MONSTER

Dawn of the Dead isn't the only place you find mindless zombies feeding off the living - Hollywood seems full of them right now... [more]