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Film Review: Violent Streets (1974)
Hideo Gosha’s 1974 Yakuza crime thriller Violent Streets(暴力街,Bôryoku gai) is the latest film to join the ever increasing Eureka Entertainment’s Masters Of Cinema series. Once again they do not disappoint, they don’t hold back on anything either. A gallery of rogues who exploited every nook and cranny of humanity if their clan gained control and…
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Episode 2: The Chronicle Podcast Listen Now
It’s finally here Episode 2 of The Chronicle, the official Podcast of Chronicles In Film. For this week’s episode we have 2 classics from Asian Cinema from Eureka Entertainment. First up is Hong Kong action comedy Magnificent Warriors (1987). Starring a young Michelle Yeoh as a secret agent during the Sino-Japanese war. A film which…
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Best Hong Kong Crime Thrillers
When it comes to crime thrillers, some of the best ever made have come from Hong Kong. Thought provoking, action packed, noir tinged, captivating sometimes even slow burning and comedic. The sub genre has given us some film auteurs actors who have ventured into Hollywood, most of all great films. To coincide with Running Out…
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Film Review – Running Out Of Time 1+2 (Masters Of Cinema)
Released as part of their brilliant Masters of Cinema series, Eureka Entertainment give us the slick cat and mouse thriller Running Out Of Time. Directed by Johnnie To and a film that was released in 1999 and was one of Hong Kong’s biggest box office hits of that year and now released in the UK…
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Film Review – Nosferatu (1922)
It’s easy to call yourself a film fan or even a cinephile but when you dig a little deeper to find out why they call themselves fans its then you truly find out how much of a fan you really are. Film is one of the most culturally diverse art forms ever created, true cinephiles…