Iron Monkey – UK Blu Ray Review
Action star Donnie Yen now has a very high profile resume after co-starring in Rogue One the Star Wars spin-off and the highly successful Ip Man film series of which part 4 is now filming. In 1993 he made the now cult classic kung fu movie Iron Monkey produced by Tsui Hark and directed by […]
Birth of the Dragon – Review
Bruce Lee became a cultural icon after his tragic death and as such has a huge following, so when a movie comes out about any aspect of his life it is scrutinised very thoroughly by fans. Birth of the Dragon is a fictionalised account of the fight Bruce Lee had in the Autumn of 1964 […]
Manhunt (2017) – Review
Director John Woo has been absent from Cinema for a while after making Red Cliff and The Crossing when he announced a return to the Heroic Bloodshed genre with Manhunt, a remake of a classic Japanese gangster film of the same name. If you’re expecting a return to form then forget it as the movie […]
Wolf Warrior 2 – Review
Wolf Warrior was a medium hit in the Far East but got mixed reviews, so it came as a great surprise that Wolf Warrior 2 also starring Wu Jing went on to be the biggest box office hit ever in China and was in the top 5 worldwide box office hits in 2017. The simple […]
Chasing the Dragon – Review
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 the Dragon. The film is a revisiting of the stories from two classics films of […]
Paradox – Review
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 great anticipation and was not disappointed. Hong Kong policeman Lee (Louis Koo) goes on a […]
The Foreigner – Review
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 one bit but with The Foreigner, he is paired with a great cast including Pierce […]
Blade of the Immortal – Review
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 feudal Japan promises to help a young woman avenge the death of her parents. Their […]
The Villainess – Review
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 on the men who murdered her father in a breathtaking opening sequence. After losing consciousness […]
Headshot – Review
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 made the highly rated Killers in 2015 which I have yet to see. When a […]