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ON THE JOB Opens 6th Terracotta Far East Film Festival
One of the best showcases of Asian Cinema in the UK, the Terracotta Far East Film Festival is back for its 6th year from 23 May to 1 June, and boasts a spectacular line-up of some of the most high-profile...
Asia Beat: Udine Awards, New Sono Sion, Tsui Hark, THE FATAL ENCOUNTER And More
Welcome to Asia Beat, a fortnightly roundup of bite-sized news pieces from around the region that might have otherwise slipped under the radar but which we feel are worth bringing to your attention. Anything from casting news, poster premieres, to...
Donnie Yen Freezes No More And Finally Cometh In Hong Kong Trailer For ICEMAN 3D
Production problems over the high cost budget and shooting complication has stalled Law Wing Cheong's period/modern actioner Iceman 3D for a long while but after overcoming this temporary setback, the remake to Clarence Fok's Iceman Cometh is finally ready to...
THE GRANDMASTER, DRUG WAR Top HK Film Critics Awards
Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster has been named Best Film by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, while its female star Zhang Ziyi was voted Best Actress. Johnnie To's Drug War won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards, and...
Hey, Australia! Win Tickets To See UNBEATABLE In Cinemas!
Thanks to our friends at Magnum Films, we have FIVE double passes to give away for Unbeatable, the new MMA action drama from one of Hong Kong's most consistent action directors - Dante Lam.Unbeatable stars a very muscular Nick Cheung,...
Review: UNBEATABLE Goes For The Gut, But Not The Face
Dante Lam forgoes his penchant for high octane pyrotechnics to deliver this character-focused drama about a pair of MMA fighters that boasts strong performances but sparse action in a by-the-numbers story of redemption.After an excellent run of form over the...
Final Poster And Trailer For Dante Lam's UNBEATABLE
Sometimes the struggles outside of the fight arena pack the most crucial impact rather than the actual fight itself. Dante Lam's mixed martial arts drama Unbeatable (formerly known as MMA) appears to fall under this category of a combat film...
Dante Lam's UNBEATABLE To Open Hong Kong's Summer IFF 2013
Dante Lam's eagerly awaited mixed martial arts drama, Unbeatable, will have its domestic debut on 13 August, when it opens this year's Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival. Previously entitled MMA, the film stars Nick Cheung and Eddie Peng, and...
New Posters And Hong Kong Trailer For Dante Lam's UNBEATABLE (MMA)
Fresh off of picking up some award hardware in Shanghai, Dante Lam's Unbeatable (formerly known as MMA) has released a pair of new posters and an English subtitled trailer in Hong Kong.FAI (Nick CHEUNG), once a world champion in boxing,...
Opening: LOST IN THAILAND Searches For Audience In U.S.
China's record-smashing Lost in Thailand opens in limited release in the United States tomorrow, February 8, searching for an audience that may respond to a comic road trip that "talks about the struggles of the middle class and the grassroots,...
Review: LOST IN THAILAND Worked at Home but Doesn't Travel Well
Comic actor Xu Zheng's directorial debut broke a slew of box office records to become the most successful Chinese language film of all-time on home soil. But despite slick production values and a strong cast, Lost in Thailand is a...
LOST IN THAILAND Smashes Chinese Box Office Records, Watch The Trailer Now!
Writer / director / star / producer Xu Zheng has just set the bar phenomenally high for himself, absolutely shattering a literal handful of Chinese box office records with his debut directorial effort Lost In Thailand. Best known to fans...
Review: FAIRY TALE KILLER is Another Pang Nightmare
When discussing the careers of the Pang Brothers, it doesn't take long before you start repeating yourself. After a couple of promising Thai thrillers, Danny and his twin brother Oxide scored a massive international hit with 2002's The Eye -...
Review: ROMANCING IN THIN AIR marks a welcome return for Sammi Cheng
In a rare, but much welcome change of pace, Johnnie To came off the back of 2009's disappointing multinational crime thriller, VENGEANCE, with two relatively light and fluffy romances. DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART successfully navigated a complex and hard-to-predict...
Teaser Trailer for Johnnie To's ROMANCING IN THIN AIR
Johnnie To's snowbound romance between Louis Koo and Sammi Cheng has had a long and bumpy ride getting to the screen, but the end is finally in sight and Media Asia has released a teaser trailer for the film, as...
Three Clips From Dante Lam's FIRE OF CONSCIENCE
Hong Kong's Dante Lam has won a lot of love here at ScreenAnarchy over the past few years for one very simple reason: The man is on a hot streak unparalleled in the world of Asian action film right now....
US Trailer For Dante Lam's FIRE OF CONSCIENCE
When it comes to Hong Kong action cinema nobody has been doing it quite as well as Dante Lam over the past few years and Indomina Releasing are bringing one of his most recent efforts to US DVD October 25.In...
First Look At Lau Ching Wan In Danny Pang's FAIRY TALE KILLER
UPDATED - I met with the kind folks at Universe this afternoon and not only did they show me a rough cut "buyers-only" trailer for FAIRY TALE KILLER, but they also passed me a one-sheet including a full synopsis and...
Sitges 2010: FIRE OF CONSCIENCE Review
[Our thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]In the past few years there's been a revival of classic Hong Kong cinema genres, such as martial arts and action. Action thrillers about cops and robbers (which often are only...
Indomina Releasing acquires North American rights for 'Fire of Conscience'
Another acquisition for Indomina Releasing. Near the end of Fantastic Fest they secured the North American rights for Dante Lam's recent Hong Kong action film Fire of Conscience. The full press release is after the break. Details on their release strategy...
