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All tagged hong kong cinema
Dan and Carlo are back to their cruddy ways! Carlo watched Dragons Forever, The Delinquents and more, while Dan checked out Magic Crystal before being disappointed by a North American blockbuster.
Back Row is five years old and ready to star in its own version of Kindergarten Cop! Check out our best lists, podcasts and articles from the past year you may have missed.
Carlo and East Asian literature/film academic Jessica Siu-yin Yeung talk about their mutual love for Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema – including the best five films to get you started on your own cinematic journey.
Dan’s back at it again this year, this time with 15 horror movies ready for adding to your Halloween watchlist. The only question is: which will you watch first?
Carlo’s caught a bad case of Movietitis B in 2019 so stay clear if you don’t wanna get sick.
Sill going for it, eh? Sick.
After being subjected to Jerry Lewis movies, Carlo challenges Jenna to watch some of his favorite action films–including The Heroic Trio, and the first two Female Prisoner Scorpion films.
Dan & Carlo recap their participation in the CHUD Buddies Challenge, discussing films such as American Anthem (1986), Parole Violators (1994), Lady Terminator (1989), as well as some questionable breakfast practices.
Carlo is here, in living color, with a brand new video essay on Shaw Brothers’ The Vengeful Beauty (1978), a proto-girls with guns movie.
You watch 700+ movies, what do you get? Another year older and closer to death.
Whoa, that got dark. Anyway… Yay movies!
"Girls With Guns" as a sub-genre was an absolute phenomenon in Hong Kong between the ‘80s and ‘90s where the climate for female empowerment in male-dominated exploitation cinema reigned supreme.
