A team of operatives skilled in industrial espionage are apprehended by Hong Kong’s secret service and blackmailed into undertaking a raid of MI:5. Their target is a set of British sterling printing plates that could, if released to the black … Continue reading REVIEW: Downtown Torpedoes (1997)
Yinniang (Shu Qi) was taken from her home at the age of ten and trained to become a master assassin. Now an adult, she fails to undertake her latest mission when she sees her target cradling his infant son. As … Continue reading REVIEW: The Assassin (2015)
In 1925 Alaska a diphtheria outbreak sends musher Leonhard Seppala (Willem Dafoe) and his dogs on a last-ditch mission to bring home an anti-serum. For 12 year-old lead dog Togo, it may be his final journey. The 1925 diphtheria outbreak … Continue reading REVIEW: Togo (2019)
Following the death of his girlfriend Vesper, MI6 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) goes on a mission of revenge. He soon uncovers a shadow organisation known as Quantum, a representative of which – the French environmental campaigner Dominic Greene (Mathieu … Continue reading REVIEW: Quantum of Solace (2008)
Professional assassin John Lee (Chow Yun-fat) is nearing the end of his service to local crime boss Terence Wei (Kenneth Chang). When he is given one final mission to complete – the murder of a police detective’s young son – … Continue reading REVIEW: The Replacement Killers (1998)
Jen (Matilda Lutz) is a spoiled socialite taken out to a luxury villa in the middle of a desert by her rich – and married – boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens). What begins as a sex-filled dirty weekend is soon disrupted … Continue reading REVIEW: Revenge (2017)
A debt-ridden boxer (Xia Yu) shoots a man dead in Hong Kong before fleeing to mainland China. A year later, a team of police officers have almost succeeded in tracking him down along the borders of the Gobi Desert – … Continue reading REVIEW: Wind Blast (2010)
Some time after the events of Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) breaks up with the Joker. Without the Joker’s protection, she is soon targeted by every Gotham criminal with a grudge against her, including gangster Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor). Sionis … Continue reading REVIEW: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
Buck is a St Bernard-Scotch Collie cross living an easy life in 1890s Santa Clara. When he is kidnapped and illegally sold, he finds himself the property of Yukon freight haulers – and on an adventure into the northern American … Continue reading REVIEW: The Call of the Wild (2020)
In 1906 Hong Kong a team of pro-democracy revolutionaries secretly prepare for the arrival of their leader, Dr Sun Yat-sen. At the same time, a representative of the empire makes preparations of his own – not to greet or defend … Continue reading REVIEW: Bodyguards and Assassins (2009)
