Witch From Nepal
There is a scene in Witch From Nepal (1986) where the hero, Joe (Chow Yun-fat), is practicing his new magical, telekinetic powers at a restaurant with his girlfriend Ida (Yammie… Read more »
There is a scene in Witch From Nepal (1986) where the hero, Joe (Chow Yun-fat), is practicing his new magical, telekinetic powers at a restaurant with his girlfriend Ida (Yammie… Read more »
Spiritual Love (1987) takes many of the horror-comedy elements of Mr. Vampire (1985) and fuses them with the romantic comedy genre. Like so many Hong Kong films, Spiritual Love is… Read more »
To commemorate a year passing since Viva Video! closed its doors forever the Bryn Mawr Film Institute hosted a 35mm screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled (1992). The event is… Read more »
Lau Kar-leung made a career out of directing action movies. He bagan his career working for the Shaw Brothers and ended up helming some of their most famous martial arts… Read more »
There’s no better way to kick-off the holiday season than with Ringo Lam’s City On Fire (1987). This Hong Kong crime thriller is one of the most influential films of… Read more »
The Seventh Curse (1986) finds director Lam Ngai Kai true to form. The Seventh Curse is deliriously violent, amply gory, and packed to the gills with bizarre creature effects that… Read more »
City War (1988) reunites A Better Tomorrow (1986) stars Chow Yun-fat and Ti Lung for a gritty police thriller. Helmed by Shaw Brothers veteran Sun Chung, City War is more… Read more »
I remember the first time that I saw Noah Baumbach’s Kicking And Screaming (1995). I became all excited when Carlos Jacott is at the airport carrying a framed one-sheet for… Read more »
If one hasn’t seen many Heroic Bloodshed films from the eighties and nineties one probably has the impression that these films are low-brow entertainment, but there is more here than… Read more »