Spotless, seamless perfection, Dark Winds is all you could hope for from a streaming series. And don’t worry if your faith in the po-po isn’t what it used to be and has spoiled your appetite for police dramas.
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Jet Li’s screen persona of quiet, self-effacing strength is in the headlights in this collection of 3 Hong Kong action films from the 1990s.
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This film has everything an action movie needs. Plenty of breathtaking action, strong story and characters, star actors and slick, pacey direction. Mission Impossible is back – bigger than ever.
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This arch, feminist werewolf horror trilogy was much lauded when it first came out. The first 2 films hold up pretty well in this collector’s edition treatment from Second Sight Films.
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This interesting Taiwanese epic mixes King Hu wuxia dynamics with Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai to good effect: the extended, climactic fight scene is powerful enough to bring on ASMR delicious shivers in Mr Vampire.
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It was 45 years ago when Christopher Reeves as Superman first hit the screen. And today’s audiences are now fully versed in the world of comic book superhero characters. Every so often though a new one comes along and even though The Flash has appeared in one film, he is a new one to me.
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Matriarch-led family drama meets female cop action and martial arts mayhem in this very satisfying Hong Kong thriller.
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The ultimate depressed millennials horror film is back, looking great and oozing dread.
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Equal parts gob-smacking, intriguing and anxiety inducing due to their over-wrought intensity, these three films by Polish-French director Andrzej Zulawski are essential viewing for arthouse cinema lovers.
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These epic Triad action thrillers are excellent: gritty and violent but featuring a nice assortment of characters, who are all – at times at least – objects of our sympathy and empathy.
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