New Kung Fu Cult Master 2 倚天屠龍記之聖火雄風 (2022) Review

In a perfect world, we would have gotten the second chapter of Kung Fu Cult Master <倚天屠龍記之魔教教主> in the mid or late ’90s, where Jet Li’s Mo-Kei ends up locating Chiu Man (Cheung Man) in Dadu.

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New Kung Fu Cult Master 1 倚天屠龍記之九陽神功 (2022) Review

Twenty-nine years after the uneven Kung Fu Cult Master <倚天屠龍記之魔教教主> left us hanging with only half the story, Wong Jing is finally given the second chance to revive the classic Jin Yong’s (Louis Cha) story of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre.

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Revisiting Kung Fu Cult Master 倚天屠龍記之魔教教主 (1993)

Wong Jing’s upcoming big-budget remake of Kung Fu Cult Master <倚天屠龍記之魔教教主> is split into a two-part saga and will be released on January 31 and February 3, 2022 respectively. But this isn’t the first time Wong Jing adapted Jin Yong’s (Louis Cha) classic wuxia novel, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre.

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Once Upon A Time In Hong Kong 金錢帝國:追虎擒龍 (2021) Review

On more than one occasion, Crippled Ho (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) addressed Louis Koo’s Hank Chan as a “young man” in Once Upon A Time In Hong Kong <金錢帝國:追虎擒龍> (not to be confused with Felix Chong’s upcoming big-budget similarly English-titled crime thriller <金手指> starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai).

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Chasing The Dragon: The One Billion Inspector (2020) Review

In an unexpected move that nobody could have predicted in the first place, producer and co-writer Wong Jing who were responsible for the first two theatrical features of 2017’s Chasing The Dragon <追龍> and last year’s unrelated but thematically similar sequel in Chasing The Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch <追龍II: 賊王> (2019), opted to go direct-to-web for the third instalment.

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