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COLD WAR and THE BULLET VANISHES Top HK Film Award Nominations
The nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards were announced earlier today, and predictably, star-studded cop drama Cold War scored 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director nods for its first-time helmers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. More...
Out Now on Australian DVD: MOTORWAY Is A Stunt Masterpiece
Sean (Shawn Yue) is an overconfident rookie with a need for speed. He works for a covert police unit consisting of the best drivers in the force specifically tackling underworld racing and fugitives on the run. Jensen (Guo Xiaodong) is...
TIFF 2012 Review: MOTORWAY Speeds Down a Divided Highway
It was way back in September 2009 when we first reported that director Soi Cheang would be following up his award-winning film Accident with a car chase action thriller entitled Motorway. Fast-forward 18 months and a trailer for the...
Review: MOTORWAY Stylishly Drifts Into Cinemas
Sean (Shawn Yue) is an overconfident rookie with a need for speed. He works for a covert police unit consisting of the best drivers in the force specifically tackling underworld racing and fugitives on the run. Jensen (Guo Xiaodong) is...
Review: MOTORWAY Feels The Need For Speed, But Not For Plot
[Giving my review a bump as the film finally opens in Hong Kong today.]It was way back in September 2009 when we first reported that director Soi Cheang would be following up his award-winning film Accident with a car chase...
Competition: Win 1 of 5 Double Passes to See MOTORWAY in Australia!
Thanks to our friends at Dream Movie Australia, we have FIVE double passes for the new Hong Kong film Motorway to give away to our Australian readers! This is the much anticipated new film from producer Johnnie To and director...
More Car Action in Hong Kong Trailer For Soi Cheang's MOTORWAY
Only a week after the last trailer for Soi Cheang's car chase flick Motorway surfaced, Media Asia has uploaded another one on its official Youtube channel with even more footage of stunt driving goodness. As mentioned before, the film is produced by...
Soi Cheang's MOTORWAY finally enters the home straight!
It seems like forever since director Soi Cheang and producer Johnnie To began work on their underground racing thriller, MOTORWAY, with the first proper trailer surfacing almost exactly a year ago to the day. Well, now the chequered flag seems...
Contest: Win a bunch of awesome REIGN OF ASSASSINS samurai sword umbrellas! (Australia only)
This is an awesome one. Courtesy of our very good pals at Dangerfield and Madman, who will be releasing Reign of Assassins in Australia on DVD and Bluray 22/06.You can be sporting a seriously kick-ass samurai-umbrella. What does that mean exactly? Well see the...
Soi Cheang gets fast & furious in the MOTORWAY trailer!
Soi Cheang's previous collaboration with producer Johnnie To, ACCIDENT, is a big favourite around these parts and by the looks of the trailer to his new film, MOTORWAY, he's sticking to the same style.Starring a host of familiar faces, including...
The brilliant REIGN OF ASSASSINS gets an Aussie release!
Madman are going to release Reign of Assassins on DVD and Bluray on the 22nd of June. This is great news as Reign of Assassins is one of my favorite films of last year and has definitely not received the undue attention...
REIGN OF ASSASSINS Review
I admit, I'm quite partial to big-budget martial arts epics. I love films like 14 Blades, The Banquet, Hero and True Legend, now it's time to promote John Woo's latest entry in the genre. Backing director Chao-bin Su, Woo delivers...
HK Filmart: Soi Cheang Revs Up MOTORWAY
While I'm told there are still a few pickup shots to be completed the Johnnie To produced, Soi Cheang directed action flick Motorway is now deep in post production and the first promo is on display at the HK Filmart.Shawn...
REIGN OF ASSASSINS Review
Whenever John Woo has a new film project coming out it spells good times ahead for fans of Hong Kong cinema. The fact that the production of REIGN OF ASSASSINS, a Ming-Dynasty set wuxia drama, was merely overseen by...
A Classic In The Making? The Second REIGN OF ASSASSINS Trailer Says Maybe So.
If I had to pick just one word to sum up the look and feel of the second trailer for John Woo and Su Shao-Bin's Reign of Assassins that word would be timeless. This is Michelle Yeoh back in...
John Woo and Su Chao-Bin's REIGN OF ASSASSINS trailer!
By and far one of my favorite swordplay films of all time is John Woo's Last Hurrah for Chivalry. Love that film. So it pleases my heart and soul to see something like Reign of Assassins come along. Directed by Su...
HOLEHEAD 2010: FUTURE X-COPS Review
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.] Future X-Cops (Mei loi ging chaat, 2010) is a paint-by-numbers, sci-fi action flick that's doing gangbusters in China but is unlikely to make it past the bargain...
Promo Reel for John Woo's REIGN OF ASSASSINS
Our first clear look at the actual footage for John Woo & Su Chao-pin's wuxia film Reign of Assassins (Chinese title: Jianyu Jianghu, English translation: Rain of Swords in the Martial Arts World) has surfaced online in the form of...
EFM 2010: First Glimpse Of John Woo's JIANYU JIANGHU!
Now going by the English title of Reign of Assassins, the first promo reel for the John Woo / Su Chao-Bin co-directed feature is available for buyers at the EFM.The footage included is still quite rough, looking to be completely...
First Stills Of Michelle Yeoh In John Woo's RAIN OF SWORDS!
Be still my skeptical heart. After years of being disappointed first by the films that iconic Hong Kong director was announcing as his next projects and then being further disappointed by the fact that he never seemed to actually make...
