Bride of Re-Animator illustration from Hobby Japan EX, Winter 1991.

Tatsuya Nakadai riding a demon motorcycle to death in The Wicked City. What a legend.

Every time the Criterion Closet has a British or European guest, I always think, 'Do they even have a region A player?'

More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero Never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both releases have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.

More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.

Hong Kong movies used to be so dangerous even Wong Kar-wai ones could kill you.

Every time I watch Hard Boiled I'm like, "Hey, it's that bit from Infernal Affairs!" during the Tony Leung and Philip Chan rooftop scene even though I know Hard Boiled came first and have seen it so many more times than Infernal Affairs.

I guested on a Cantonese-language community radio show when I was up in Brisbane for the In the Mood for Maggie Cheung retrospective at GOMA (runs till the end of the month). The episode's now up if you wanna hear me do Cantonese content: 1 Nov 2025 8pm www.4eb.org.au/shows/durian...

RIP Stanley Fung One of his final Facebook posts was on the passing of Benz Hui: '...Alas, we all part ways someday, but I am older than you, myself terminally ill and on my last legs... Wait for me on the other side, young brother. Your unworthy elder brother is close behind!'

It's officially spooky season which means it's time for more horror (and horror-adjacent) game commercials! Please see the quoted skeet below for last year's posts.

I showed this at the Gallery of Modern Art so Maggie Cheung is modern art now.

The Japanese version of Lam Nai-choi's The Cat one of the great cinematic curiosities. Its director, Mio Hani, released a spoken word album about her 11 cats when she was 8 years old. youtu.be/wm03nlDQF3c?si…

I think it went pretty well. Big thanks to anyone who came and told me they enjoyed it afterwards. I saw a dude in the audience who was really into it so props to you.

Last minute plug 🙇

Can't believe they're letting me give a talk inside this glowing cube on Sunday

I get a lot of French followers here because I'm on a popular(?) French Starter Pack, so I always feel I'm letting them down by not posting in French.

I know who robbed the Louvre

Do you like gory R-rated monster suit fighting movies? I edited GUYVER 2: DARK HERO down from 127 minutes to 70 minutes, added in a little footage from the Guyver OVA, and called it GUYVER: HYPER DARK HERO MEGAMIX. You can download it here: we.tl/t-sxEWhsW2xx

Many thanks to Alula for inviting me to moderate their opening night Q&A with Hou Hsiao-hsien’s longtime editor Liao Ching-sung! He described Hou’s presence as “a sun,” shared delight over A CITY OF SADNESS’s sync sound, and that they’re still in constant contact ❤️❤️

If you’re looking to get in on the latest Eric Roberts holiday film sensation before everyone else does this only has one Letterboxd review so far

A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...

James Mason presents King Hu with Best Director for Legend of the Mountain at the 16th Golden Horse Awards in 1979. (Everything I see from old Golden Horse Award ceremonies is wild to me)

After the recent interview with Mars where he dished dirt on Jackie Chan, Lau Kar-leung's widow Mary Jean Reimer joins the fray with Drunken Master II gossip. She says Jackie had himself credited co-director out of jealousy after the fight scene under the train. 1/4 www.youtube.com/live/8tyVuUO...

Want to take a minute to wrap up my thoughts about Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) being at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles last week. Meiko did 3 Q&A sessions and 5 of her movies were screened across 3 nights, October 2, 3 and 4. (Pictured here is a scan of the BeyondFest card for Meiko) 1/

Adrenaline still pumping from seeing Sons of the Neon Night because it's so bad and all I want is for everyone to see it so I can chat with everyone about how bad it is. Pretty sure the movie was finished using AI. Legitimising rich boy Juno Mak was a mistake.

Now seated for the so-called 都市傳說

I'll be up north on the 26th October to give a talk on Maggie Cheung at the Australian Cinémathèque in the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane as part of their upcoming In the Mood for Maggie Cheung retrospective. Please come if you're in town. qagoma.qld.gov.au/event/maggie...

I'll be up north on the 26th October to give a talk on Maggie Cheung at the Australian Cinémathèque in the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane as part of their upcoming In the Mood for Maggie Cheung retrospective. Please come if you're in town. qagoma.qld.gov.au/event/maggie...

Hilarious that, by the traditional definition of the term, none of these are New Wave films nor are they directed by New Wave directors.

Privileged to be on the first of the Golden Princess catalogue to hit the UK, Ringo Lam's seminal City on Fire. The booklet features a piece where I detail Lam's personal and professional journey up to that point while also getting into what exactly Golden Princess are. (I also redid the subtitles)

Arrow’s site has this up for preorder now and it confirms it will have all the SF video/audio extras AND the archival talent interviews from the old UK DVD (which SF does not have). It’ll also have an essay from @dylancheung.bsky.social which is great. So hands down a better release

Just spent more than 10 dollars on boba for my niece

Check out this chunky boy Chinese bootleg Peacock King DVD set. It comes with the two Hong Kong live action movies in both HK and Japanese versions, Japanese making of, CD soundtrack, HK and Taiwanese cuts of The Kid from Tibet, and the anime adaptations ripped from Italian DVDs.

Seeing this photo do the rounds today: Wong Kar-wai's Mong Kok House on Fire commencing production in 1993, a movie meant to wrap in two months. The cast included Lau Ching-wan who has otherwise not worked with Wong. Supposedly inspired by Kinji Fukusaku's House on Fire (1986).

Teaser for Deadline, the latest from Kiwi Chow (Beyond the Dream, Revolution of Our Times). I'm not completely sold on Chow as an artist, but he's undoubtedly one of the most pertinent working Hong Kong filmmakers right now. This looks good, though.

An unknown screenwriter going by Guer claims they're the real writer of Blossoms Shanghai, accusing Wong Kar-wai and writer Qin Wen of exploitation and bullying, even posting audio recordings as proof. It's gotten so bad the production issued a statement about respecting the rights of creators.

An unknown screenwriter going by Guer claims they're the real writer of Blossoms Shanghai, accusing Wong Kar-wai and writer Qin Wen of exploitation and bullying, even posting audio recordings as proof. It's gotten so bad the production issued a statement about respecting the rights of creators.

An excellent argument not just against ChatGPT, but in favor of human translators

Alright, let's see what all the fuss is about.

The LINDA LINDA LINDA 20th anniversary press tour is my Oasis reunion

Skipped a screening of Green Snake because I assumed it would be the 4K restoration in Mandarin with the CG snake. A friend who went said it was in Cantonese but did have the CG snake. They also think the brief nudity's been cut and the dance scene re-edited. Can anybody confirm?

Felt like Koizumi couldn't wait for that Direct to finish, "Miyamoto-san, unlike you, I've got actual games to make. Please understand."

Every Dynasty Warriors game comes with new ways to butcher the names in English.

Even Leprechaun didn't go to space until his fourth movie. What are you doing, Mario??

Turns out Wong Kar-wai was an assistant director on Five Easy Pieces (1980), the first HK TV series to be axed and an important work in Johnnie To's early directing career (he also designed the opening titles). This means Wong and To were dboth iscovered by star of The Killer Snakes Kam Kwok-leung.

My favourite De Palma bit is Jessica Harper's dance at the end of 'Special to Me' in Phantom of the Paradise.

Turns out Wong Kar-wai was an assistant director on Five Easy Pieces (1980), the first HK TV series to be axed and an important work in Johnnie To's early directing career (he also designed the opening titles). This means Wong and To were dboth iscovered by star of The Killer Snakes Kam Kwok-leung.

Giddens Ko going to bat hard for Charlie Kirk is not what I needed this morning

Into the perilous night