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Doomsday Book is a science fiction anthology telling three unique stories about the destruction of mankind.

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Watching Doomsday Book is no big step away from watching three episodes of the Twilight Zone back to back. Each story is unrelated to the others, and so the film itself is a bit of a mixed bag depending on which section you're…

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And ensemble of characters, each with their own motivations and deceptions gather at the Dragon Inn, a lone outpost in the middle of the desert on the eve of a cataclysmic sandstorm that occurs once ever 60 years and is prophesied to reveal, and then rebury a lost city or riches.

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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is a fine film, but most of…

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Jimmy (Shawn Yue) and Cherie's (Miriam Yueng) burgeoning romance grows stale pretty quickly and when Jimmy takes a job in Beijing the two break-up. But after a few months Cherie's job brings her to Beijing too, and she finds herself being drawn back to Jimmy even though he has a girlfriend of his own now.

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A treasure hunter, Tang Yunlong (Vincent Zhao), enrolls his daughter in the martial arts tournament marking the 500th anniversary of the Wu Dang Temple, as a front to steal the temple's hidden treasures, including an ancient sword made from an asteroid that's also being sought after by Tian Xin (Mini Yang)

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It's strange that I watched…

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When high-profile stock broker Mason Law (Lau Ching Wan) gets in a car accident because he thinks he's being tailed, anti-terrorist police inspector Jack Ho (Louis Koo) finds a military grade bugging device in the wreckage... and more in his office. Jack's primary concern is catching Joe Szema (Daniel Wu) who's been eavesdropping on high level brokerage deals, Mason is more worried about what he's…

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The Department Six Constabulary and the Divine Constabulary are both trying to figure out who's behind a ring of counterfeiters. Department Six is the ipso facto law in the area but the head feels threatened when the independent investigations of the Divine Constabulary are given precedence from the emperor. He sends Coldblood (Deng Chao) to infiltrate them. Meanwhile The Department Six has been…

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Easy Money is a Chinese remake of The Thomas Crown Affair only swap the genders and put Michelle Yeoh in the lead role.

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The Thomas Crown Affair was an intriguing film when it first came out in 1968. I would hardly call it a great film, but it is interesting and was certainly a fresh idea. Personally I think it was a slightly better film…

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International Security Affairs officer Jon (Jay Chou) receives a bullet to the brain by his former partner Sean (Andy On) that will eventually kill him when Sean kidnaps the scientist they're hired to protect who's mutated a new strain of super deadly smallpox. Sean is has allied himself with some Russians and is in place to make billions of a vaccine. Jon decides to seek out his long lost brother…

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Tam (Aaron Kwok) is a mediocre private eye who is hired to track down a young woman. But when everyone he tries to talk to turns up dead, he become entrenched in a deadly mystery that gets him in trouble with the police and puts his own life in danger.

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Like pretty much every film buff, I'm a big fan of noir and the hard boiled…

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When a police officer is found dead in a burned car covered with drugs, a special investigation team is put together to try to uncover the culprit and the depth of the possible police corruption. Veteran detective Sung-Bum (Uhm Tae-Woong)  is teamed up with hot-shot young Ho-Ryong (Joo Won) who trained in the US, and hopes to find out who framed his father in this same department 15 years…

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The five Lucky Stars are assigned by the police to have an actor and an actress live with them because someone's trying to kill them and then comedy and action ensues.

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"Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars" was the third "Lucky Stars" movie following "Winners and Sinners" and "My Lucky Stars." Usually I try to review films in a series in order,…

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A degenerate gambler with heavy debts happens upon a child ghost named Puta whom he uses to help him win at gambling until it all blows up in his face.

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Rounding out my Born to Fight Trilogy boxed set is a third movie that is certainly not a Born to Fight film. Instead we follow a ridiculous idiot who makes his living gambling, although I don't see how as we only ever see…

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A boy from the north end of the village (I think the characters name is 'Run') challenges a boy from the south to a game of takraw (sort of a combination of volleyball and soccer.) Run wins soundly and goes off to flirt with local hottie Samlee who wants nothing to do with him. Unfortunately the boy from the south is a sore loser, and soon he comes with a gang of…

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Local semi-washed up newspaper reporter Lee Bang-Woo (Hwang Jung-Min) is hoping to break the story on the explosion of the Balsam Bridge, and while it seems a foregone conclusion that it was "North Korean spies" Yoon-Hyuk (Jin Goo) an old friend from his home town shows up with some evidence indicating that the whole thing may have been fabricated by an enigmatic organization more powerful than the…

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Kenny Bee plays a physical incarnation of death who, together with Suet Lam, maintain the Hong Kong area. Shortly after he meets the grand daughter of a woman who he buys oranges from they begin to fall in love... but how will he tell her his terrible secret?!

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A Land Without Boundaries is a special kind of terrible. The kind that…

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Ki-Soo (Lee Min-Ki), Myung-Sik (Kim In-Kwon) and Ah-Rom (Kang Hye-Won) were members of the same notorious motorcycle gang. They enjoyed their days roaming the streets recklessly on their motorcycles. Now, Ki-Soo works as a motorcycle delivery man, Myung-Sik is a motorcycle cop and Ah-Rom is a member of pop idol group. One day, Ki-Soo has Ah-Rom riding on the back of his motorcycle as he makes a…

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Paddy Conlon's (Nick Nolte) two sons hate his guts. He'd been drunk and abusive with their mother and while Tommy (Tom Hardy) left with his mother to help her start a new life Brenden (Joel Edgerton) stayed to be with his then-girlfriend now-wife.

Now Brenden is a physics teacher who's in danger of losing his house and turns back to the MMA fighting circuit in order to support his family.…

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Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar) has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave -…

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Yabuki Joe (Tomohisa Yamashita) is a vagrant living in the slums of Tokyo in the 1960's. Although he's jailed for getting in a streetfight, a former boxer sees potential in him and decides to train him. Joe is reluctant at first, but while in prison he meets Toru Rikiishi (Yûsuke Iseya) who's a professional boxer and the two develop a rivalry. Upon his release, Joe decides to train in boxing seriously…

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Bio-Pic following Qui Jin (Huang Yi) a Chinese revolutionary and woman's right activist executed shortly before the 1911 revolution.

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Qui Jin is a heroic character who lead an interesting life. Unfortunately this movie doesn't do her much justice. As a little girl Qui Jin was allowed to study philosophy and martial arts instead of being…