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Cinema/TV Screenings in Oz in February

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Justin

Here’s a quick roundup of what’s coming up in Oz cinemas and on television over the next few weeks for fans of asian film.

Chinese New Year 2011 film: All’s Well Ends Well 2011

The year of the rabbit brings with it another star-studded Chinese New Year comedy from HK, and Dream Movie have got it in cinemas here in most capital cities. Stars Donnie Yen (an unusual bit of casting for a comedy!), Raymond Wong, Carina Lau, Louis Koo … (read more)

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AIFF 2011 Coming Soon

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Justin

Late Feb brings festival season to Adelaide, and the program is huge. I’ve not had a chance to look over the full list (we’ll try and write up a preview shortly!) but a few things that fall squarely into Heroic Cinema’s purview jump out of the list at me:

  • Cold Fish (Japan, 2010, dir: Sion Sono)
    The most recent film from controversial director Sion Sono (Strange Circus, Suicide Club), and it looks like a winner.
  • God of
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Shaolin comes to Australian cinemas

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Justin

For those of you out there that haven’t been following Dream Movie Australia’s website/twitter/facebook, we’ve got some exciting news.

Benny Chan (New Police Story) has directed this decade’s first Shaolin-themed kungfu film film — snappily called Shaolin — and DMA have it in Australian cinemas from this Thursday. It boasts some fairly serious HK star power, too: Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Wu Jing, Fan Bingbing, Xiong Xinxin, and more. Corey Yuen’s handling the action, so … (read more)

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A new challenger appears!

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Justin

Welcome, everyone, to the third incarnation of Heroic Cinema!

Version two served us well for several years, but the world has moved on: everyone is blogging and tweeting these days, their microformatted meanderings spat out into the ether like so many rounds of ammunition. Our rather sedate "gather up reviews, then publish every now and then" approach was getting antiquated, and many of the features we used to have — World Movies TV times, screening data, etc. — aren’t necessary … (read more)

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Justin’s GBW for 2008

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Justin

The Good – The Good, the Bad, the Weird

Kim Jee-Woon’s motorcycle-riding, treasure-hunting 1930s Manchurian Western was the most fun I’ve had in a cinema in ages, though Johnnie To’s elegant Sparrow probably deserves an honourable mention as well.

The Bad – CJ7

Well, OK, so it wasn’t terrible, and it had one or two moments in it that made me laugh… but it felt like only a third of a film tuned for a very different audience than Stephen … (read more)

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