Sensitive New Age Killer (2000)
If you have read my Dead End Drive-In articles you may have noticed my fascination for Australian action films. From Brian Trenchard-Smith’s forays in the genre, to Mark “Jacko” Jackson’s baffling buddy-cop outing. I can’t get enough. Sensitive New Age Killer fits perfectly as a successor to these films.
To Hell with the Devil (1981)
TO HELL WITH THE DEVIL 1981, John Woo THWTD stars Hong Kong 1980s comedy mainstay, Ricky Hui as Bruce. Bruce is a lovesick songwriter, conman and aspiring pop star who also happens to be in love with the fickle, Peggy. The unscrupulous management of an evil pop star called Rocky manage to steal one of...
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...
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....
