In the hopes of entering an insanely thrilling Johnny To double feature, I bought the new release of Running out of Time parts one and two. I like the early and late Hong Kong action cinema, and I have recently begun to explore and discover new and old treasures of […]
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Full Alert is a 1997 Hong-Kong crime-action movie by Ringo Lam. Inspector Pao Wai-Hung (Lau Ching-Wan) is caught in a race against time, as bomb maker and criminal masterminde Mak Kwan (Francis Ng) is captured and will not spill where and when a daring heist will go down, as evidence […]
If martial arts movies or Hong Kong movies more generally are your thing, chances are you have heard of Iron Monkey. You might even be a huge fan of it. Iron Monkey, Yuen Woo-Ping‘s 1993 Kung Fu romp starring Donnie Yen, Yu Rong-kwong and Jean Wang rode (at least in […]
Ringo Lam‘s Wild Search is a Hong Kong crime drama released in 1989. Out of the films of that era, it’s not among the better known movies, at least not internationally. This may be about to change, with a restored version available for rediscovery of this gem. The movie is […]