Hong Kong Cinema Archives -

February 11, 2026 0 14

The last two John Woo 4K UHD releases represent two extremes of his Hong Kong oeuvre. Bullet in the Head...

Saga of the Phoenix Blu-ray Review: To Hell and Back on Blu-ray

January 12, 2026 0 27

Saga of the Phoenix came out in December too while I was working on the Shawscope Vol. 4 set. It...

December 9, 2025 0 30

The Killer may have been the very first Hong Kong movie many of us found on a cruddy VHS several...

December 9, 2025 0 65

Triple Threat: Three Films with Sammo Hung really captures three different eras of the martial artist. All three were new...

November 18, 2025 0 83

Shout! Factory’s John Woo 4K UHD #2 is the A Better Tomorrow Trilogy. These are significant because Woo considers the...

November 10, 2025 0 71

I saw the new 4K restoration of Hard Boiled in a theaters, so I can vouch that it holds up....

September 29, 2025 0 28

Peking Opera esd integral to Hong Kong cinema. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao came from the Peking Opera...

September 16, 2025 0 48

Flaming Brothers was not one of the major Hong Kong films that came over in the ‘90s. So it’s a...

August 26, 2025 0 42

City on Fire has a reputation as the inspiration for Reservoir Dogs. Hopefully making it available again shows it stands...

December 17, 2024 0 38

I’ve been so happy the Criterion Collection has been adding Hong Kong cinema classics to the collection. Of course, in...