Cert 15 | 120 mins | 2023
4 Star
Hard Times in the Big Apple.
Adapted from the award-winning short film “My Heavenly City” by Taiwan’s new generation writer/director Sen-I Yu who has personal experience of living in New York, while having ties to Taiwan. Now taking her short film, and expanding her thoughts to a full feature. This story affects the young, the old, and family members facing…more
Cert 15 | 84 mins | 1994
5 Star
Spooftacular Fun and Violence.
Writer, director and actor Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle) gets his comedy teeth into this spoof/homage to the legend that is ‘James Bond’. With elements taken from each of the films up to the 1990s. And what a job he has done, with laugh-out-loud moments to cringing with the explosive violence. From the Eureka…more
Cert 15 | 101 mins | 1973
4 Star
When the Dialogue is Over, The Killing Begins.
To mark its fiftieth anniversary, Eureka brings us a Blu-ray of the original Hong Kong theatrical cut from a brand new 2K restoration. Written/directed and starring Jimmy Wang Yu (One-armed Boxer, One-armed Boxer II) in this tale of a small Chinese town versus’s the might of the Japanese invaders. Beach of the…more
Cert PG | 129 mins | 2023
4 Star
The Pressure is On.
Yusheng Tian (Phanta City (TV Mini Series), The Sacrifice) brings us his fourth part of the Meng Yun (Geng Han, Transformers: Age of Extinction, So Young) and Yu Fei (Ryan Zheng, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, The Great Wall) show, as the best friends hit their mid-thirties, their mothers want grand children. For that, you need a…more
Cert 15 | 144 mins | 2023
4 Star
Cops, Crime and Control.
Philip Yung (Rigor Mortis, May We Chat), directs his first film in seven years, and this is his labour of love, as he addresses the subject of crime in the police force in Hong Kong from the 1940s to the 1980s. So much was controlled by just a few men. Featuring two of Asian cinema’s biggest…more
92 mins | 1990
5 Star
Acrobatics, Kung Fu and Very Big Guns.
Co-written and directed and acted by Corey Yuen (The Transporter, Righting Wrongs) who has an extensive knowledge of martial arts, and he certainly gets the best out of his wards, in this female lead action masterpiece that has it all. She Shoots Straight is a must own for any Martial Arts fan, male…more
Cert 15 | 148 mins | 2023
5 Star
The Start of an Epic Fantasy Trilogy.
Up-and-coming director Wuershan (The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman, Mojin: The Lost Legend) lands an epic job in bringing the Fengshen Trilogy, and he has smashed it out of the park, as we see awesome battle scenes, fantasy creatures and good and bad magic go head-to-head. Based on the 16th century Chinese…more
