Hong Kong

Another extortion attempt goes down.

Finally, a use of 3D I can get behind. The concluding chapter in the life story of Bruce Lee's mentor gets all dimensionalized.

The Shaw Brothers are best known for their kung fu classics of the 70s. But in the 80s they started churning out weird, over the top horror. On February 25th the Alamo Drafthouse is presenting an all-night Hong-Kong-a-Thon with a completely secret program. Could some of these 80s gore masterpieces be showing?

The next installment of the Movies On Fire examination of gonzo Hong Kong films looks at hyperviolent true crime exploitation films!

Grady returns with this week’s look at crazy Hong Kong cinema. This time it’s the blood-soaked world of weird, crunky horror films.

Introducing Movies On Fire, a new series that looks at the wildest, weirdest and wackiest movies to ever come out of Hong Kong. In this first installment an examination of the Yuen Clan; you know Yuen Wo-Ping from movies like THE MATRIX and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, but you probably didn’t know about the whole family, and their crazy movies like SHAOLIN DRUNKARD.