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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
Scared Stiff (1986)
Scared Stiff 1986 Dir: Chia Yung Liu (AKA Lau Kar Wing) Lau Kar Wing, (director of Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon), directs this frantic mess of a movie, that fuses childish antics with occasional moments of melodrama and brutal violence. At this point I need to mention that I find this movie an absolute treat....
