Sentenced to Hang (1989)
This week in Show Me Face, I have decided to share one of my favourite Hong Kong movie posters of all time. Below is the poster for Sentenced to Hang. While far from one of my favourite HK films, I was inspired to take a punt on buying the DVD of this after witnessing the...
Ralph Bakshi
On the weekend I was at Polyester, a local oddball bookshop, looking at the comics and art magazines when I happened across a familiar sight. Well, several familiar sights. All of them on the cover of one book. Holly Wouldifshecould, Fritz the Cat and Mighty Mouse amongst other loved characters adorned the front of the...
Trash from My Private Stash
This week I’ve decided to share with you, my good friends, a few teen/sex comedy/exploitation covers from my coveted VHS tape collection. Some of the covers, like Savage Streets, I love because of their incredible artwork and design. Others I enjoy for their sheer WTF factor. But all these covers I love because they are...
Run Tiger Run (1985)
RUN TIGER RUN 1985, John Woo Before he was directing some of the most awesome bloody and bullet-y actioners ever to come out of anywhere, and long before he went to the USA and made some pretty good actioners followed by some forgettable ones, aaaand even longer before he went back to Hong Kong and...
Day of the Panther (1988)
DAY OF THE PANTHER 1988, Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Trenchard-Smith, director of such classic and well-loved Australian films as BMX Bandits, The Man from Hong Kong, Turkey Shoot and of course this column’s namesake, Dead End Drive-In, brings us this classic piece of Aussie chop socky from the 1980s. And what can I say but “wow”....
The Red Panther (1983)
THE RED PANTHER 1983, Jiang Long Last year I went on a pilgrimage to Hong Kong to see the land that the bulk of my DVD collection is from. After briefly checking out the obligatory tourist spots, I set off to buy all the movies I could fit into my little suitcase, going from mall,...
Ringo Lam
My Starter Pack this week focuses on one of my favourite filmmakers, Ringo Lam. He made some of the best and most memorable Hong Kong movies of the late 80s and early 90s, then went on to make a few Van Damme movies and some other stuff which I won’t get into. But during the...
Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991)
GHOULIES III: GHOULIES GO TO COLLEGE 1991, John Carl Buechler Upon finishing high school, I packed up my things, and like lots of other somewhat privileged kids the world around, went to college. I studied Fine Art if you’re interested to know. To prepare me for the apparently debauched, alcohol fueled, partying lifestyle of a...
Iron Angels (1987)
IRON ANGELS AKA Angel AKA Fighting Madam AKA Midnight Angels(1987) 1987, dir: Teresa Woo, Raymond Leung Iron Angels is one of the more popular of the Girls ‘n Guns movies from Hong Kong and rightfully so. It features some jaw-dropping scenes of squibs and pyrotechnics action as well as some great displays of martial arts....
Cool for Cats (1992)
COOL FOR CATS 1992, dir: Liam Dale Cool For Cats is neither cool nor for cats. I am fully aware that this column is supposed to be about teen movies from the 1980s. And, most importantly, ones from my vast and dust-lined collection in my garage. But on Sunday I was wandering around a...
Royal Warriors (1986)
ROYAL WARRIORS 1986, Dir: David Chung Royal Warriors (AKA In the Line of Duty), stars Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as the imaginatively named super cop, Michelle Yip. On her plane ride home to Hong Kong from a holiday in Japan, Michelle encounters a pair of men terrorising the passengers on this luxurious...
Action cinema from Hong Kong’s golden era
I love a good old fashioned bit of action cinema, the more violent, hectic and stunt-laden the better. And where better to go for the excesses of action cinema, than the home of the “heroic bloodshed” genre, Hong Kong. And of course, what better era for such extravagance than the 1980s through to the mid-90s....
