Dotonburi, Osaka - BLACK RAIN (Ridley Scott, 1989) vs last night (26 Feb,2026) #osaka #japan #filmlocation #blackrain #touristing

Heading to Osaka in the morning, so getting in the mood with this one

SCARE OUT: Zhang Yimou delivers a slickly executed but narratively muddled spy thriller about stolen secrets and traitorous agents, that never pauses long enough to ponder why they might choose to betray their country. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

This morning:

Today:

BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS: Finally found a moment to collect my thoughts on Yuen Woo Ping's visually ravishing martial arts epic, starring a boat-load of local stars including Wu Jing, Nicholas Tse, Jet Li, Max Zhang, Tony Leung Ka Fai and many more. youtu.be/V9DnRG203_s?...

GET SHORTY, pausing for TOUCH OF EVIL, would be a lot of fun. "You going down, Orson."

If you start TRUE ROMANCE you might never finish it, pausing for a Sonny Chiba triple feature of THE STREETFIGHTER, RETURN OF THE STREETFIGHTER and SISTER STREETFIGHTER, then later for A BETTER TOMORROW 2, and again for FREEJACK.

PANDA PLAN: THE MAGICAL TRIBE: Jackie Chan follows up his abysmal animal adventure movie with a sequel that defies the odds by being actually kinda halfway decent. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS: slick if somewhat unexceptional sword-wielding action epic from Yuen Woo-ping follows a conventional story of wandering warriors and competing clans, elevated by some exotically staged action and a raft of glitzy guest stars. TBH gutted Nashi was recast but hey ho.

Kicking off the new year with Yuen Woo-ping’s latest

NIGHT KING: Sammi Cheng, Dayo Wong, Louise Wong and Fish Liew headline this funny, sexy and shamelessly nostalgic Chinese New Year romp about the waning glory days of TST East's nightclub scene - from Jack Ng, writer-director of A Guilty Conscience. youtu.be/VXZItmLg6y4?...

THE SNOWBALL ON A SUNNY DAY: Philip “PORT OF CALL” Yung changes tack for this patchy and rambling tale of an ordinary family whose lucky numbers might have come up. Has its moments, but unlikely to find an audience outside Hong Kong: youtu.be/3vUjQe1oyUE?...

NIGHT KING: Sammi Cheng, Dayo Wong, Louise Wong and Fish Liew headline this funny, sexy and shamelessly nostalgic Chinese New Year romp about the waning glory days of TST East's nightclub scene - from Jack Ng, writer-director of A Guilty Conscience. youtu.be/VXZItmLg6y4?...

WUTHERING HEIGHTS plays like one long sweaty, sticky super-horny Kate Bush video, and is all the better for it. Elordi and Robbie absolutely sizzle. Had me howling for moor.

Today:

With THE SNOWBALL ON A SUNNY DAY opening tomorrow and giving local audiences their annual reminder that the Mark Six can’t buy real happiness, I picked out 10 more Asian movies about winning the lottery: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

New movies out today in Hong Kong: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, GOAT, then THE SNOWBALL ON A SUNNY DAY tomorrow and a slew of previews for CNY fare over the weekend

Guys over 40, I cannot stress the importance of this enough: get a colonoscopy asap. And then continue getting them at least every five years. Check your prostate, testicles and everywhere else while youre at it. Oh and fuck cancer. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today:

The tragic state of Hong Kong cinema laid bare: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

NIGHT KING proved to be pretty entertaining. Way too long, could’ve done without the karaoke dance party, but props for fleshing out all its female characters. Louise and Fish both great, as was the delightfully eccentric “Kwai Fong”, while Yeung Wai Lun totally outshines his male counterparts.

Tonight:

TOKYO TAXI: Screen legend Chieko Baisho plays an elderly woman who takes a final cathartic car ride, courtesy of Takuya Kimura’s unsuspecting cabbie, in Yoji Yamada’s quietly captivating drama. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

New movies out today in Hong Kong: SENTIMENTAL VALUE, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, TOKYO TAXI, 5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND (incl. anime re-release)

Takes a near-perfect 63-minute anime and ruins it by pointlessly doubling the runtime without adding anything of value. A pointless and punishing exercise, although I suppose some of the montages were quite pretty

Tonight:

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL: A visually dazzling new anime adaptation of the same novel that inspired EDGE OF TOMORROW. Tinkers with the story a little too much but makes up for it with an eye-popping organic aesthetic: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

Tonight’s double bill:

Very fitting to be watching this on Groundhog Day

Tonight:

Peanut butter

4 favourite New Releases of Jan 2026: Cover-Up 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Pillion Send Help

4 favourite first-time watches in Jan 2026: North Korean Partisan in South Korea (1990) Hunter's Sense of Touch (1995) Final Victory (1987) I Know Where I'm Going (1945)

Today:

Tonight:

Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR is finally opening in Hong Kong on 7th March!

Yoon Ga-eun’s wonderful high school drama THE WORLD OF LOVE finally opens in Hong Kong cinemas today. It features a star-making performance from Seo Su-bin and made my list of the Best Asian Films of 2025. Be sure to check it out. marshattacks.com/2025/12/31/t...

New movies out today in Hong Kong: SEND HELP, SONG SUNG BLUE, GREENLAND: MIGRATION, THE WORLD OF LOVE, GEZHI TOWN, MOTHER BHUMI

GEZHI TOWN: Xiao Zhan and the increasingly ubiquitous Pang Yuchang star in this surprisingly effective wartime drama that strikes a welcome balance between rousing patriotism and good old-fashioned entertainment. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

Tonight:

To describe WIFELIKE as a low-rent Blade Runner in which a monotone Jonathan Rhys Meyers hunts down escaped sex robots probably makes this insipid turd sound way better than it is. Truly terrible.

MERCY is essentially MINORITY REPORT if the precogs wallowed in a pool of their own regurgitated AI slop. Relentlessly, reprehensibly stupid. Nothing makes a lick of sense if you try to lay out the killer’s true intentions your brain will catch fire. The best/worst cop thriller since HYPNOTIC.

Tonight:

Killer ape movie PRIMATE is out today in Hong Kong cinemas: marshattacks.com/2026/01/20/p...

New movies out today in Hong Kong: PRIMATE, MERCY, DUST BUNNY, ESCAPE FROM THE OUTLAND, THE FIRE RAVEN (24/1)

SONG SUNG BLUE somehow manages to be exactly the kind of movie you think it’s gonna be while simultaneously being way better than expected. Hudson and Jackman are both excellent, but more importantly, you actually give a shit about these two no-hopers chasing their dream to sing Neil Diamond songs.

Tonight:

Howzat! 🤘💀

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