Tag: bohuang
Hong Kong Asian 2014 Review: Woefully Lowbrow, BREAKUP BUDDIES Proves Ning Hao Is Not Yet Forgiven
The long, punishing arm of China's censorship board still hangs heavy over the career of mainland filmmaker Ning Hao. The once-exciting auteur turns in another safe, audience-friendly offering with Breakup Buddies, suggesting his penance for the acerbic No Man's Land...
Ning Hao Gets His Apatow On With New Comedy BREAKUP BUDDIES
Chinese director Ning Hao has won a legion of fans at home - and a decent sized cult around the globe - thanks to his quirky sense of humor, an element typically woven into stories based in other genres, and...
Well Go USA: Watch MAN FROM NOWHERE, LEGEND OF THE FIST And More For Free
Here is a spot of good news if you like to watch titles that have been popular with the ScreenAnarchy crowd. Our friends at Well Go USA have started to release some of their titles for free on their website....
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...
Second Teaser For Stephen Chow's JOURNEY TO THE WEST Features First Footage, Dodgy CGI
One thing is very clear about the upcoming box office duel between Stephen Chow's Journey To The West and Soi Cheang's The Monkey King. There's going to be a lot of dodgy CGI.Both based on the same popular legends, Cheang's...
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...
[Winner!] Win LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN And Much More From Well Go USA!
[We have a grand prize winner in our Legend of the Fist/Well Go USA ultimate martial arts Blu-ray contest! Congratulations to Jeffrey Kauffman! Jeffrey won a Blu-ray player along with a Legend of the Fist poster and a collection of...
LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN Collector's Edition Blu-ray Review
Well Go USA:Presumed dead after single-handedly defeating all the Japanese fighters at the Hongkou Dojo to avenge his master, Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) joins the Labour Corps during the First World War. Deciding to return home to defend his country,...
Andrew Lau's LEGEND OF THE FIST Hits US DVD And BluRay This Week. Last Chance To Win A Massive WellGo Prize Pack!
Andrew Lau's Donnie Yen starring martial arts action picture Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen arrives on US DVD and BluRay tomorrow which means - among other things - that we're now in the home stretch of...
US Trailer And Three Clips Showcase Donnie Yen In LEGEND OF THE FIST
Andrew Lau's Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen hits American screens on Friday and to help promote the US release WellGo USA have released a trio of clips to augment the US trailer for the picture.In 1920s...
US Trailer For LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN
Andrew Lau's Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen with martial arts extraordinaire Donnie Yen will be hitting the big screen in North America and so, a US trailer has arrived via Apple. I gotta hand it...
LEGEND OF CHEN ZHEN Review
It's been a while since Wai-Keung Lau released a crowd-pleaser with Western potential. His Infernal Affairs trilogy made a big impact, yet after these films he somehow slipped back into HK anonymity. Those of you expecting a new gangster epic...
Sitges 2010: LEGEND OF THE FIST Review
[Our thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]When a movie has behind it such big names as Andrew Lau, Gordon Chan and Donnie Yen behind it, you'd probably start to feel a little bit curious about it. If...
Fantastic Fest 2010: Legend of the Fist review
If the Chinese army had the skills that Donnie Yen shows at kicking ass as a lowly workman for the English in WW2, they would have ruled the world by now. Fortunately for us they don't seem to possess...
TIFF 2010: Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen review
(This is cross-posted from GradyHendrix.com where I blog about temp jobs and bad movies. Well, some good movies. But mostly bad.)Watching LEGEND OF THE FIST: RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN is like watching Donnie Yen masturbate to photos of Bruce Lee...
TIFF 2010: LEGEND OF THE FIST, THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN Review
Andrew Lau's Legend of the Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen fits very neatly into the current wave of Chinese language films that trade largely on nationalist sentiment to achieve popular success. Recent entries such as Bodyguards And Assassins,...
TIFF 2010: Third Teaser for LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN
Media Asia has debuted the third teaser trailer to Andrew Lau-directed/Gordon Chan-produced martial arts film Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. Whether it's on the mean streets of Shanghai overrun by the mafia or in a dojo...
Well Go Picks Up LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN For North America.
The headline says it all, really. Fresh on the heels of the film's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival being announced, Well Go USA have announced that they have picked up all North American rights to Andrew Lau's Legend...
TIFF10 Galas and Special Presentations
Here comes the 35th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the line-up thus far of Galas and Special Presentations (that is code for High Profile Films) is looking quite stellar. In this first taster, there are new films...
