First US Trailer and Poster for Action-Comedy Let The Bullets Fly with Chow Yun-Fat

Let The Bullets Fly US poster

Best known in the West for his superb performance in Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chow Yun-fat has since gone on to star in a number of both American and Asian films, including Curse of the Golden Flower, Bulletproof Monk, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. One of his most [...]

Six Of The Best – Little-Seen Gems

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This sort of thing can rapidly turn into a vanity project, so I will have to watch my step a little. Laudable as it is to try to bring to people’s attention some splendid films which they may not have seen, it can swiftly deteriorate into, “oh gosh, you haven’t seen Cube: Zero, what kind [...]

Win Confucius on DVD

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Arriving on DVD and Blu-ray today is Confucius. The film stars Chow Yun-Fat as philosopher Confucius and judging from the trailer (which you can watch embedded below) it looks to be a pretty epic affair. Showbox and Cine Asia are releasing the film in the UK and they have very kindly given us two copies [...]

Shanghai Trailer

Shanghai

Looks like the WWII war genre is still alive and kicking.  The Pacific has been making the rounds and today, courtesy of the good folks over at Firstshowing.net, we get a look at the international trailer for a film called Shanghai.  Now, to be honest I hadn’t previously heard of this film, but it’s hooks [...]

New Trailer for Chow Yun-Fat’s Confucius

Confucius

A new extended trailer for Hu Mei’s upcoming biopic Confucius starring Chow Yun-Fat as the titular philosopher has appeared online. This production has caused a lot of controversy in China as the casting of action hero Chow Yun-Fat as Confucius had people fearing the film would contain inappropriate levels of action. Further controversy arose when [...]