Police Story 3: Supercop
Four years after the previous installment, Jackie Chan unleashed Police Story 3: Supercop (1992). Chan, Maggie Cheung and Bill Tung all reprise their roles from the earlier films with Michelle… Read more »
Tag: Maggie Cheung
Police Story
It isn’t much of a stretch to say that Jackie Chan is the Charlie Chaplin of our time. Both Chan and Chaplin write, direct, produce and star in some of… Read more »
Executioners
For Executioners (1993), the sequel to The Heroic Trio (1993), Johhnie To returned to the dirctor’s chair, though this time he shared duties with Ching Siu-tung. Ching Siu-tung, best known… Read more »
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep (1996) is something of a contemporary classic. I love the idea that a French filmmaker would watch The Heroic Trio (1993) on LaserDisc and cast Maggie… Read more »
The Heroic Trio
Johnnie To’s The Heroic Trio (1993) is an aesthetic fusion of the contemporary Hong Kong action film and the American superhero films of the late eighties and early nineties. The… Read more »
Ashes Of Time
Wong Kar-wai’s adaptation of Jin Yong’s novel The Legend Of The Condor Heroes, Ashes Of Time (1994), is a sort of turning point in the filmmaker’s career. Here his collaboration… Read more »
The Seventh Curse
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 »
Actress
“Woman’s awareness of herself is not defined exclusively by her sexuality: it reflects a situation that depends upon the economic organization of society, which in turn indicates what stage of… Read more »
In The Mood For Love
In The Mood For Love (2001) continues director Wong Kar-wai’s preoccupation with emotions unexpressed and love gone unconsummated. Of all of Wong Kar-wai’s feature films, In The Mood For Love best… Read more »
