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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hark Tsui
Starring: Andy Lau | Bingbing Li | Carina Lau | Chao Deng | Tony Leung Ka-fai

Jason says: “DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME hits a lot of my sweet spots – it can be described as a Chinese martial-arts take on Sherlock Holmes, with a blockbuster budget, Tsui Hark directing with abandon,

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The Warlords (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Chan | Wai Man Yip
Starring: Andy Lau | Jet Li | Jinglei Xu | Takeshi Kaneshiro

Jason says: “At certain points, the fact that Warlords licked around for a while without a U.S. distributor despite being an epic with high production values and a star in Jet Li who is still relatively bankable was taken as

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Infernal Affairs 3 (2004)

Bruce says: “IA3 is comprised of what is left over from the first two films in the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy. It is somewhat of a Hong Kong MULHOLLAND DR. which is both curse and compliment. “As complicated as the first

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Infernal Affairs (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Siu Fai Mak | Wai Keung Lau
Starring: Andy Lau | Anthony Wong | Tony Leung

Bruce says: “Every so often a film comes along that soars above others in its genre. Whether you categorize INFERNAL AFFAIRS as a thriller, action film or crime drama, it soars. Some critics bill this as a good cop/bad cop

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Days of Being Wild (1991)

Bruce says: “While for some time THE DAYS OF BEING WILD has been available for viewing at home in the room of your choice, it has never before had a theatrical release in the United States. Made in 1991, it

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