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What do you do if you're the producers of one of the biggest genre hits in your region's history? If you're the producers of Norwegian zombie comedy Dead Snow you bring back the whole crew that made that earlier effort so successful, pick another genre, recruit a few new faces - ...
Movies
Regular readers of this space should be well familiar with the name of Cem Yilmaz by now. The hugely popular comic was already a highly sought after performer when he also hit international success as a director with his scifi comedy GORA . A film that drew immediate ...
Movies
Mel Brooks
Blazing Saddles
The initial conceit of LOVE AT SEVENTH SIGHT is so painfully
formulaic that it almost doesn't need summarizing. Taiwanese actor Mike Hu
plays Hong Kong lad Ziqi, a film sound engineer, who travels to Beijing to
record some genuine sounds of silence. Almost immediately he is offered a ...
Movies
You've got to hand it to India, they're not shy about self-promotion there. Take upcoming Tamil language release Porkkalam - Battlefield in English - as an example. The debut feature from twenty four year old writer-director Bandi Saroj Kumar, Porkkalam is "a high voltage ...
Movies
Still no sign at all of Tran Ahn Hung's English language thriller I Come With The Rain on local shores but no worries: The impatient among you with a hankering to see the Josh Hartnett / Lee Byung-Hyeon / Shawn Yue / Kimura Takuya thriller will soon have your chance to do just ...
Movies
Josh Hartnett
Oh, the BluRay revolution is going to get expensive with lots of films I love but never picked up on DVD suddenly becoming available all gussied up and purty. On the Jackie Chan front, Police Story originally hit BluRay a couple months back but that original film is now about to ...
Movies
Jackie Chan
Jet Li
While the Criterion Collection continues to play coy about their release plans for Nobuhiko Obayashi's House - they're definitely doing it as they're already selling House t-shirts in their official shop - the folks behind the UK's Masters of Cinema series are getting straight to the ...
Television
Now, having seen the third Universal Soldier film at Fantastic Fest this past September I won't go so far as to say it's a really good film, per se, but it is certainly far, far better than that horrible DVD cover that Sony has foisted upon the straight to video release. ...
Movies
Well, well. After waging a very public PR battle around his Jackie Chan starring drama The Shinjuku Incident - a battle he lost with the film being banned in mainland China and released in a cut version in Hong Kong despite his protestations - veteran director has gone the exact ...
Celebrities
[With the four proper Bruce Lee features recently remastered and reissued on BluRay in Hong Kong I figured the time had come to revisit the old classics that I hadn't seen in a while, while also finally getting a look at the titles that for whatever reason I had simply never seen ...
Movies
Bruce Altman
Bruce Lee
While recent Chinese and HK action films are
going through an early 90s revival, some film like to travel back even
a little further. Coweb is not unlike HK action films coming from the
late 80s, updated to match modern standards. Whether you believe this
is a welcome genre reconnaissance ...
Movies
....aaaand she's saying no. It's a no with a long list of "official" reasons in all likelihood (schedule conflicts and whatnot), but the Chinese press is going straight for the jugular, suggesting that the very revealing, all-nude scenes she would have had to shoot with Zhang Ziyi - ...
Celebrities
Zhang Ziyi
Gong Li
Maggie Cheung
The last time we talked about Kim Ji-Woon's upcoming projects, it was regarding his first venture into Hollywood, a remake of Claude Sautet's 70s caper Max et Les Ferrailleurs . Hoping to cast Clive Owen and possibly Sienna Miller in the leading roles, Kim wanted his Max and the Junkmen ...
Movies
Max Payne
Roadie. Washout. Reluctant father. Meet Le Donk, self styled music industry maven - his hopes pinned to the skills of chunky Midlands rapper Scor-Zay-Zee and a hail-Mary plan to somehow squeeze his young prodigy on to the lineup of a massive Arctic Monkeys outdoor gig that he's working ...
Celebrities
Australia
Every country is entitled to make their own 'kill off the sexy young people as brutally as possible' movie and it would appear that Air Terjun Pengantin from Indonesia is no exception. When a glamor model cum actress [ha ha ha. I get it] is your headliner you know exactly what to ...
Movies
With second trailer arriving for Our Masha and Magical Nut (Наша Маша и Волшебный Орех, Nasha Masha i Volshebnyj Orekh), the 7-years story of production seems finally came to an end. And this trailer look better than the first one. The movie changed several titles during production, ...
Movies
Wong Jing's latest effort is a bizarre gangster comedy that
flirts with also being a psychological thriller, before settling into more
comfortable triad territory. Nick Cheung plays Fai, a triad hitman coming to
the end of a 30-year stretch in the big house for slaughtering 20 rival ...
