Death Notice 暗殺風暴 (2023) Review

It’s Herman Yau again and this time, it’s a mid-budget mystery thriller titled Death Notice <暗殺風暴>. A long-delayed production that has been circling around since 2019, with multiple release dates getting reshuffled for various reasons, making me wonder whether the movie is ever going to see the light of day.

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Fierce Cop 烈探 (2022) Review

After spending more than a decade writing action screenplays for high-profile movies including the Ip Man <葉問> quadrilogy (2008-2019), Special ID <特殊身份> (2013) and Master Z: Ip Man Legacy <葉問外傳:張天志> (2018), Chan Tan-Li finally got his chance to direct his own action movie.

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35 Years Later: A Better Tomorrow 英雄本色 (1986)

There were many memorable movies during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 80s and 90s and among them include John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色>, which was released back on August 2, 1986.

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30 Years Later: Revisiting Bullet In The Head (1990)

From the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, John Woo has made some of the most influential Hong Kong action films of all time during the peak of his career including A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色> (1986), The Killer <喋血雙雄> (1989) and Hard Boiled <辣手神探> (1992).

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30 Years Later: Revisiting Bullet In The Head 喋血街頭 (1990)

From the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, John Woo has made some of the most influential Hong Kong action films of all time during the peak of his career including A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色> (1986), The Killer <喋血雙雄> (1989) and Hard Boiled <辣手神探> (1992).

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