Jie (Angela Mao) sets out to take vengeance on four ruthless killers and their master – the corrupt Prince Kui – who murdered her parents 20 years before. Armed with her own formidable kung-fu skills and a collection of deadly scorpions, Jie is helped in her quest by a mother and son team of pickpockets, Thousand Hands and her son … Read the rest
Month: January 2018
Erotic Nightmare (Wai-Man Cheng, Hong Kong, 1999)
Cracking, sexy variation on the old ‘dreams can kill’ scenario with the great Anthony Wong as a sexually frustrated husband (wife has a heart problem) stitched up like a kipper by an occultist who offers him sizzlingly hot erotic dreams for a price. At first it’s great fun for our Anthony but corpses soon begin to turn up around the … Read the rest
The Age Of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon, South Korea, 2016)
Lee Jung-Chool (Song Kang-ho), a Korean police captain working under the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1920’s is ordered to hunt down a group of resistance fighters who plan to smuggle explosives into the capital. When Lee poses as a businessman and accompanies his chief suspect on a trip he ends up persuaded into switching sides after an unexpected … Read the rest
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, US, 2017)
In Los Angeles Detective K (Ryan Gosling) hunts down and kills an artificial human known as a replicant but his death leads to an astonishing discovery that threatens to upend the status between replicants and their human masters. Ordered by his boss Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright) to eradicate all traces of his discovery K’s investigations are shadowed by a replicant … Read the rest
