Chinese cinema spans everything from the wuxia classics of the Shaw Brothers era to the state-backed blockbusters dominating today's box office. Jackie Chan's Police Story series sits at the heart of Hong Kong action, and titles like New Police Story and Police Story 3: Super Cop show the range within that legacy alone. Have a browse through Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 4.0★
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul occupies a singular corner of world cinema, one that tends to divide audiences cleanly into the devoted and the bewildered. His work operates at a frequency all its own: unhurried, sensory, preoccupied with memory, landscape, and the thin membrane between the living and whatever comes after.
Rating: 3.0★
Action cinema has always had a restless relationship with the camera. From the bone-crunching physicality of films like The Raid 2 to the elegantly choreographed mayhem of Hong Kong classics, directors have spent decades searching for new ways to put audiences inside the violence rather than simply watching it
Rating: 3.5★
There are certain films that arrive at precisely the right moment, catching a cultural mood and refusing to let go. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released in the year 2000 and directed by Ang Lee, was very much one of those films. Drawing on the wuxia tradition, a genre with deep
Genre Action
★★½ — Skiptrace (2016)
Genre Comedy
★½ — Men in Black: International (2019)
Genre Action
★★ — Police Story: Lockdown (2013)
Genre Action
★★★ — New Police Story (2004)
Genre Action
★★★½ — Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)
Genre Action
★★★ — The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Genre Action
★★½ — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
Genre Action
★★★ — Unleashed (2005)
Genre Science Fiction
★★½ — Venom (2018)
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