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  Director Wong Jing is renowned for low brow and enjoyable at times action comedies but here with co-director Jason Kwan gives viewers the dramatic story of gangster Crippled Ho’s journey from low life street thug to criminal mastermind, Chasing Read more…


Director Wilson Yip has a solid reputation with Hong Kong movie fans and when good reports started coming in of his new film Paradox with action direction by Sammo Hung and a cameo by Tony Jaa, I started watching with Read more…


Jackie Chan will always be an icon to all Hong Kong cinema fans, but his recent output has been, to put it mildly pretty awful. Films such as Kung Fu Yoga and Chinese Zodiac have not helped his recent filmography Read more…


Director Takeshi Miike has directed many films, some great some bad, but Blade of the Immortal is his 100th movie and this time he revisits the Samurai genre but with a fantasy slant. Cursed with immortality, a skilled samurai in Read more…


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Korean action cinema releases in the UK have been very quiet lately until word came out about a new revenge thriller entitled The Villainess starring Kim Ok-bin and directed by Jung Byung-gil. Sook-hee is a trained assassin who takes revenge Read more…


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Iko Uwais shot to fame in the fabulous Gareth Evans films The Raid 1 + 2 and Headshot is his first follow up movie, this time with directors Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahanto (also known as the Mo Brothers) who Read more…


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88 Films in the UK have delighted Shaw Brothers fans by releasing a series of films onto Blu Ray and DVD and many of them are classic Kung Fu movies from the famous studio. Masked Avengers is one of the Read more…


Jackie Chan’s early mega-hit Drunken Master has had a number of releases on DVD and Blu ray over the years and a lot of them have been problematic in many ways. The great news is that this new release from Read more…


The words classic cult films are used a lot these days and many films do not deserve such an accolade but these superb set of Japanese action classic certainly do. The Six-Film Lone Wolf and Cub Series is Based on Read more…


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Cine Asia are back and are ready to start releasing Asian movies again and they have started with a good one, Benny Chan’s Call of Heroes. In 1914, after the collapse of China’s Qing dynasty, Yang Kenan (Lau Ching Wan) Read more…