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A Better Tomorrow II

Monday, August 28th, 2006
It’s John Woo all right, but turned all the way up to 11!… (more…)

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Bruce’s Legacy

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
More than 30 years after his death, the ‘Little Dragon’ has never been more popular - but isn’t it time we left his memory alone? (more…)

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Buddha’s Palm

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
A fun filled pantomime from the Shaw Brothers - with super extending legs that can deliver a kick from a distance, dwarfs that squirt Alien-like acid puss from their spots and pet dragons… (more…)

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Cinema: Triangle

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Triangle, featuring the combined directing talents of Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnny To, is released Manga Entertainment at selected cinemas on 29 August.

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Come Drink With Me

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
If you ever wanted to know where Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon came from you only need to know one name, King Hu. This ground breaking film, possibly one of the greatest of the martial chivalry genre, started it all… (more…)

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DVD: Triangle

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Three undisputed masters of contemporary Hong Kong cinema - Tsui Hark (Seven Swords; Zu Warriors; Once Upon A Time In China), Ringo Lam (Full Contact; City On Fire) and Johnny To (Mad Detective; PTU) - join forces for the first time ever to apply their directorial skills ‘exquisite corpse’ style to Triangle, an “inventive, and darkly comic” (Mail on Sunday) crime thriller starring Louis Koo (Flashpoint), Simon Yam (SPL; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life), Honglei Sun (Mongol; Seven Swords), Lam Ka Tung (Mad Detective; Infernal Affairs) and Kelly Lin (Mad Detective; Zu Warriors).

Read our review of Triangle here »

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Everybody was kung fu fighting ‘08

Friday, August 8th, 2008
There’s something in the air all right… but Beijing Olympics or not, haven’t we seen it all before? (more…)

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Full Alert

Monday, October 6th, 2008
Lau Ching Wan (Mad Detective, The Longest Nite) and Francis Ng (The Bride With White Hair, 2000 AD) star in this superbly paced thriller from writer/director Ringo Lam (Full Contact, City On Fire)… (more…)

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John Who?

Thursday, January 1st, 2004
Sorry, I thought you were someone else. You know, that fella that made The Killer and Hard Boiled? What, you are? Then what is all this business with that Ben Affleck geezer, a man who could take acting lessons from the cast of Thunderbirds, his acting’s so wooden? (more…)

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Legend Of Zu

Thursday, August 22nd, 2002
Tsui Hark’s follow-up to the classic Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain is a spell blinding feast for the eyes. The special effects are equal anything Hollywood has to offer, but sadly it’s also just as hollow… (more…)

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One-Armed Swordsman

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Zhang Che directs Jimmy Wang Yu in the Shaw Brothers classic that made both their careers… (more…)

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Seven Swords

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
The latest Tsui Hark movie is more than a decent stab at a ‘wuxia’ movie in the wake of Zhang Yimou’s Hero and House of Flying Daggers - but does it fall short of being the epic he intended?… (more…)

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Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow / Drunken Master

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
The ground breaking martial art films that broke Jackie Chan as a superstar… (more…)

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The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin

Friday, December 16th, 2005
Gordon Liu (Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2) stars in a kung fu classic that is so much more than your average revenge movie… (more…)

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The Butterfly Murders

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
The impressive feature debut from Tsui Hark (Seven Swords, Zu: Warriors from Magic Mountain) that kick started the Hong Kong ‘new wave’ of the 80s… (more…)

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The Top Ten Hong Kong movies…

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
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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Triangle

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Three of Hong Kong’s most respected directors – Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To – each take one half-hour segment of the same plotline, each with complete creative control – but is it any more than an self-indulgent experiment? (more…)

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Young at heart

Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Hong Kong directors are ditching young stars for old veterans who’ve hardly been on screen in twenty years or more, but the real surprise is they’re giving them the best roles (more…)

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