Cert 15 | 127 mins | 2024
5 star sweeping biographical drama.
The Promised Land is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair, The Dark Tower) with a screenplay from Arcel and Anders Thomas Jensen (Riders of Justice).
Based on the best selling 2020 novel The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen, it is coming to selected UK cinemas from 16th February…more
Cert 18 | 172 mins | 1972
5 Star
Binge Watch For a Sonny Day.
Nineteen-seventy-two was a busy year for the man who has already had a frantic career, in the martial arts scene. Now Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter Trilogy, The Executioner Collection, THE BULLET TRAIN [SHINKANSEN DAIBAKUHA], The Fall of Ako Castle (AKA Swords of Vengeance)) takes a step into a modern Chow mein western and…more
Cert 18 | 106 mins | 1974 (1981 USA)
4 Star
Start of the Legend.
Eureka brings us a work by Martial Arts film royalty, writer/director (Wei Lo, The Big Boss, Fist of Fury), who pens this story of death and corruption in Frisco. Where the formidable skills of Don Wong (Duel with Death, Along Comes a Tiger), are pitted against the man that was destined to become a legend, with…more
Cert PG | 132 mins | 2024
4 star madcap romantic farce.
Table for Six 2 is a 2024 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by Sunny Chan (Men on the Dragon, Monster Hunt 2). It is the sequel to his highly successful 2022 film, Table for Six. It is presented in Cantonese with Traditional Chinese and English subtitles.
It is showing in selected UK cinemas from 9th…more
Cert TBC (12) | 127 mins | 2023
4 Star
Supersonic Action.
Cinematic beauty comes to Blu-ray and Digital from Trinity CineAsia in Born To Fly, in this race to get on an even playing field, as aggressors show off their military might. What a break for first time writer/director Xiaoshi Liu, who brings us a stratospheric debut, in this high-octane stealth fighter fest.
Coastal China goes about its daily business,…more
Cert 15 | 99 mins | 1993
4 Star
In Beauty There is Treachery.
Eureka brings us what some might say is a controversial film adaptation of Louis Cha Leung-yung‘s (Sakra, Swordsman (TV Series)) (better known by his pen name Jin Yong) novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Despite the adaption, what we have here is an hour-and-a half of Sammo Hung (Warriors Two & The Prodigal Son,…more
Cert 15 | 144 mins | 1966-67
4 Star
Death in Monochrome.
Eureka bring us two classic chambara productions from the late 1960s, from the genre’s master, writer/director Hideo Gosha (VIOLENT STREETS, Yakuza Ladies) who takes inspiration from the spaghetti western popular in the West at the time and puts his spin on the lone warrior fighting for the little people. In these two features, he makes great use of…more
