In December 1941 a group of Chinese railroad workers, led by the station porter Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan) engage in carefully staged raids of Japanese train shipments to disrupt Japan’s military efforts to occupy China and invade other Asian nations … Continue reading REVIEW: Railroad Tigers (2016)
For a while there in the early 2000s Sammi Cheng was one of the biggest stars in Hong Kong cinema. Every year brought about another high profile romantic comedy, more often than not pairing Cheng with superstar Andy Lau. While … Continue reading REVIEW: Magic Kitchen (2004)
In the aftermath of the death of vampire lord Viktor (Bill Nighy), vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and hybrid Michael (Scott Speedman) go on the run from the revived super-vampire Markus (Tony Curran) – who is on a quest to release … Continue reading REVIEW: Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Los Angeles, 1992. In a cheap motel, and as the television news reports on the not-guilty verdict of the Rodney King trial, police detective Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) loads both a pistol and a shotgun before stepping out into the … Continue reading REVIEW: Dark Blue (2002)
For almost twenty years South Korean cinema has been on a prolonged run of bleak, emotionally challenging thrillers about wounded middle-aged men seeking revenge or hiding secrets – often both. Many have seen commercial success, some internationally, but they have … Continue reading REVIEW: Seven Years of Night (2018)
On a flight from Tokyo to Paris, one first-class passenger surreptitiously drugs the water of another. When that drugged business executive begins to pass out at the airport, she is picked up by two men who throw her into the … Continue reading REVIEW: Demonlover (2002)
This is one of the more unusual feature film projects that I have seen. In the mid-1980s the independent movie studio New World Pictures, run by the legendary low budget film producer Roger Corman, acquired the American rights to the … Continue reading REVIEW: In the Aftermath (1988)
Mia (Emma Stone) is an aspiring actress trapped in the industry cycle of waitressing by day and failing auditions by night. Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is an ambitious jazz pianist trapped playing Christmas music at a restaurant while dreaming of setting … Continue reading REVIEW: La La Land (2016)
Major Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) expects to be handed a military assignment, only to be sent to Bolivia by the Royal Geographic Society to chart more detailed maps. While in the jungle Fawcett witnesses signs of an undiscovered civilization – … Continue reading REVIEW: The Lost City of Z (2016)
A woman and a man lie asleep in bed, unaware that another man stands over them, gun held ready to shoot them both. This second man changes his mind, sneaks out of a window and runs away down the street. … Continue reading REVIEW: The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
