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Gritty New Trailer For Johnnie To’s Drug War
Johnnie To is carrying the mantel for Hong Kong action cinema like no one else in modern times. On obvious heir to the icons of the bullet opera, a Johnnie To flick is sure...
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The Lion Roars 2 (2012) Movie Review
For those who don’t remember the original, “The Lion Roars 2” is a sequel to the 2002 Hong Kong hit, continuing the period comedy wackiness after a break of some 10 years. The Mainland...
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Don’t Click (2012) Movie Review
Some 14 years after Sadako crawled from the television set, the influence of Hideo Nakata’s classic “Ringu” is still very much in evidence in the Asian horror genre. New Korean shocker “Don’t Click” is...
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Judge Archer Trailer
Xu Haofeng brings us, Judge Archer. This certainly does not look the run of the mill martial arts flicks that are coming out these days. No quick cuts, tight shots or slow motion here –...
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Ninja Scroll Slices Into UK Theaters and Blu-ray This November
UK fans with a love of all things anime and ninjas will be getting their full when the classic 1993 film “Ninja Scroll”, one of the first films to make Western fans sit up...
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I Miss U (2012) Movie Review
Despite its title, “I Miss U” is actually a Thai horror film, albeit one with a decidedly romantic and wistful bent, director Monthon Arayangkoon, combining the love story of his 2010 “Big Boy” with...
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Fists of Fury Explode in First Full Trailer for Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmasters
Granted, all those teaser trailers with Tony Leung battling an army of guys in the rain were pretty cool, but it’s great to finally get the first full length trailer for Wong Kar Wai’s...
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New English Teaser Trailer for South Korean Disaster Flick The Tower
South Korea has been cranking out the big-budget disaster films like a country just discovering the genre for a few years now. We’ve seen killer monsters, killer tsunamis, and now, killer fire. The latest...
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Second Trailer for The Guillotines is Here
The pre-release hype machine is starting up for The Guillotines. A longer trailer has come out with English sub-titles. No heads roll, but there is a little extra treat in this trailer – the...
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Hold Onto Your Heads, The Guillotines is Almost Here.
This movie is really turning into a potential blockbuster. With “The Grandmaster” delayed until next year, “The Guillotines” is going to have some breathing room. Andrew Lau, like any director will have some hits...
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Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Chung are Caught up in a Chinese Dangerous Liaisons
A few years ago Cecilia Cheung would be playing the Zhang Ziyi role. My, how times have changed. I guess it makes sense from a career trajectory (you can’t play the ingenue forever), but...
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The Cases (2012) Movie Review
Documentaries about the sinister and spooky have long been popular in Hong Kong and Chinese cinema, from back in the 1980s through to the present day, most recently seen in the sadly rather lacklustre...
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Nightmare (2012) Movie Review
The last few years have been an interesting time for the horror genre in Chinese cinema, with film makers venturing more and more into the realms of the sinister, while being held back by...
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Second Trailer for The Last Tycoon
Wong Jing’s, “The Last Tycoon” is coming soon. I’m not sure if it will hit the states with a proper release, but maybe with Chow Yun Fat headlining and Sammo Hung in it as...
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Film Shots: Storage 24, We Are the Night, and My Ex
STORAGE 24 (2012) Prolific British writer, director, actor and more Noel Clarke returns in his 4th film of 2012, science fiction horror thriller “Storage 24”, directed by Johannes Roberts, helmer of a variety of...
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Romance Joe (2011) Movie Review
“Romance Joe” marks the debut of writer director Lee Kwang Kuk, who served his apprenticeship by working on several films by Korean master Hong Sang Soo including “HaHaHa” and “Like You Know It All”....
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10+10 (2011) Movie Review
Although the anthology format is common enough in Asian cinema, “10+10” offers something a little different, not to mention more densely packed and diverse, cramming in no less than 20 short films, each no...
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The Wings of the Kirin (2011) Movie Review
Abe Hiroshi returns as popular Japanese literary figure Detective Kaga Kyoichiro, appearing on the big screen for the first time after several popular television adaptations of the Higashino Keigo novels. “Wings of the Kirin”...
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New Trailer for Tai Chi 2 (Hero)
The trailer for part two of Stephen Fung’s “Tai Chi Zero”, “Tai Chi Hero” is here. The second movie will be released Oct. 25, and it does look to be better than part one....
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New, Ridiculously Action-Packed U.S. Trailer for Tai Chi Zero
Still not sold on Stephen Fung’s “Tai Chi Zero”? Check out a new U.S. trailer for the film that really packs on the action. The hero, incidentally, has a horn on his head that...
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