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Fantasia 2021 Review: RAGING FIRE Barely Smolders

Shan (Donnie Yen) is a stubborn and incorruptible officer in the Hong Kong police. Immune to bribes and cajoling from senior officials in the force Shan soon finds himself and his team shut out of the big cases. After a...

RAGING FIRE Trailer: Well GO USA Acquire Benny Chan's Final Film, Starring Donnie Yen

Variety reported earlier today that Well GO USA have picked up the North American rights for Benny Chan's final film Raging Fire.    Chan's last action epic stars action super stars Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse. Well GO USA will...

Hey Australia! Win Tickets to See COOK UP A STORM in Cinemas!

Cook Up A Storm is a new Chinese film about ‘the ultimate culinary competition between a Cantonese street cook and a French-trained Michelin-starred chef’. It stars Nicholas Tse, CN-Blue's Jung Yong-Hwa, Tiffany Tang, Michelle Bai and Ge You.   Thanks...

The Many Faces Of Nicholas Tse

This week, the Chinese drama But Always (aka. Yi Sheng Yi Shi) premieres in several countries worldwide, including the USA. A lengthy description of a doomed romance, it stars Gao Yuanyuan and Nicholas Tse as the star-crossed lovers. James reviewed...

Review: BUT ALWAYS Urges Chinese Emigrants To Come Home Or Die

Nicholas Tse proves he is better-suited to tough guy roles than romantic leads, but his inert performance here opposite Gao Yuanyuan is far from the only problem with Snow Zou's shockingly cliched and unaware tragi-romance.When a film opens in New...

Hey Australia! Win Tickets To See Chow Yun Fat's FROM VEGAS TO MACAU In Cinemas!

From Vegas To Macau is the latest collaboration between Hong Kong director Wong Jing and star Chow Yun Fat, who of course worked together on the classic gambling film God Of Gamblers and its popular sequel. James Marsh, our Asian...

Review: Chow Yun Fat Wins Big In FROM VEGAS TO MACAU

Chow Yun Fat and writer-director Wong Jing return to the casino floor in this light-hearted action comedy that casts Chow alongside Nicolas Tse and Chapman To as con artists out to take down an international gambling syndicate. With his trademark...

Chow Yun Fat In THE MAN FROM MACAU Trailer: Flying Dice And Whirling Cards

The first trailer for Wong Jing's The Man From Macau features Chow Yun Fat in a return to the world established in 1989's God of Gamblers. It is a crazy universe of flying dice and whirling cards, as the low-res...

AS THE LIGHT GOES OUT: Derek Kwok Delivers Thrills With First Trailer For Firefighter Drama

Ah, the wonders of parallel development, that odd quirk that - from time to time - results in two films with remarkably similar premises hitting screens in close proximity to one another. Why it happens is up for much debate...

NYAFF 2013 Announces Jay Chou's THE ROOFTOP Plus 22 More Titles

The annual celebration of cinematic goodness that is the New York Asian Film Festival has announced that Jay Chou's The Rooftop will serve as the closing night presentation. They've also announced a raft of premieres and salutes. Here's more from...

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...

Review: The Sherlockian THE BULLET VANISHES Eschews Ego for Mystery

An arsenal, strange deaths and a ghost bullet all culminate in a twisty confined plot that centres around peculiar officer Song (Ching-Wan Lau as a lesser Crazy Detective than his Johnnie To joint) and already-detective, the young and cock-sure Guo...

New THE BULLET VANISHES Trailer Is Elementary For Nicholas Tse and Lau Ching Wan

Nicholas Tse is enjoying a healthy run of form in recent years, with award-winning turns in The Stool Pigeon and Bodyguards and Assassins, as well as big budget action thrillers like The Viral Factor under his belt. Tse's latest pairs him with...

Blu-ray Review: THE VIRAL FACTOR (Hong Kong Version)

The last five years have seen the meteoric rise of Dante Lam, from hack director-for-hire to the forefront of the Hong Kong action scene. A string of films that began with The Sniper, followed by The Beast Stalker, Fire of...

Review: THE VIRAL FACTOR May Be The Year's Best Asian Action Movie!

It's only January and there is already a serious contender for the best Asian action movie of 2012. That film is from HK and stars Asian superstar J.C.. But no, it's not Jackie Chan. It's Jay Chou who is...

Review: THE VIRAL FACTOR is explosively infectious

It's official: Hong Kong can no longer contain Dante Lam. The director has worked slavishly over the past decade, through a career of slapstick comedies and thankless pop star vehicles, to establish himself as the city's premier orchestrator of high-octane...

US TV Spots For Dante Lam's THE VIRAL FACTOR

Dante Lam's The Viral Factor releases around the globe this week, the latest from the director of Stool Pigeon, The Beast Stalker and Fire of Conscience pairing stars Nicholas Tse and Jay Chou as brothers on opposite sides of a...

Action Packed New US Trailer For Dante Lam's THE VIRAL FACTOR

Hong Kong action maestro Dante Lam (Fire Of Conscience, The Beast Stalker, Stool Pigeon) has established himself as Hong Kong - and arguably all of Asia's - finest and most consistent action film director over the past five years and...

UPDATED: Explosive New Trailer For Dante Lam's THE VIRAL FACTOR

UPDATED WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLED VERSION OF THE TRAILER.Hong Kong action maestro Dante Lam has been given the largest budget of his career for his upcoming effort The Viral Factor and he's certainly taking advantage. Lam's latest is a continent hopping...

Get Behind The Scenes Of Dante Lam's THE VIRAL FACTOR

[UPDATE: Added another making-of video that focuses on the stuntwork.] Emperor Motion Pictures has uploaded two making-of videos for Dante Lam's The Viral Factor at its official youtube channel.  The videos contain footage from the on-set location of the Middle...