Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A taxi driver with abnormal urges and violent tendencies begins to slaughter women taking his cab late at night, sparking an intense police investigation. REVIEW: A Category III psychological crime horror film from Hong Kong, 1992’s Dr. Lamb (AKA Gou yeung yi sang) was directed by Danny Lee and Billy Tang and written by Law Kam-fai. …
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Film Review: Legend Of The Naga Pearls (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A royal descendant of an ancient winged tribe embarks on a quest to find magical pearls. When they fall into the hands of a human, he joins a team of unlikely heroes in a race against time to prevent the destruction of his people. REVIEW: As you will already know, or will do by the end …
Read More »Film Review: Run and Kill (1993)
SYNOPSIS: Cheung, a happily married businessman with an adoring young daughter, comes home one day to find his wife being boned by another man. While drowning his sorrows alone in a bar that night, he starts a conversation with a hooker; in his completely drunken state, he ends up unintentionally hiring some gangsters to kill his wife and her lover. …
Read More »Film Review: A Day Without Policemen (Mou jing shi fen) (1993) – CAT III
SYNOPSIS: Simon Yam plays a former big city cop who had a very bad experince with an AK-47. So he’s been assigned duty on one of the Hong Kong Islands as a police chief of a small village. He spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking hash while daydreaming. But when a group of thugs armed with AK-47’s …
Read More »Film Review: The Storm Warriors (aka Fung Wan) (2009)
SYNOPSIS: Wind and Cloud find themselves up against a ruthless Japanese warlord intent on invading China. REVIEW: Wow, it looks like the Asian films are really taking an example from successful american-made movies. Or was it the other way around? In any case, The Storm Warriors really brings a sense of the crazy character-based retro style from earlier Asian films …
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