February 4th, 2025 by Gerard Iribe
Wai Lok-yan (Lau) was just eight years old when his parents were killed before his eyes in Cambodia, where his father had been working for the CIA during Pol Pot’s ascent to power in the latter days of the Cambodian Civil War. Taken to Thailand by his father’s colleague Seung (Chiang), Yan grows up to […]
February 16th, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
I remember reading about The Great Wall over a year ago when I put together my list of most anticipated films for 2016. The concept of dropping Matt Damon and Andy Lau, among others, into a Zhang Yimou (Hero) film about soldiers fighting off monsters at the Great Wall of China sounded pretty amazing. The […]
September 3rd, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Firestorm is a film that interested me because of its star, Andy Lau. I’ve been a fan of the actor ever since I was introduced to the Infernal Affairs trilogy (Or, Hong Kong Departed for those of you who don’t know that series is). He’s an interesting performer and he’s been around for a long time and […]
July 30th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Hong Kong action icon Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs, House of Flying Daggers) stars in Director Alan Yuen’s (Princess D) action-packed crime thriller FIRESTORM, igniting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Sept. 23 from Well Go USA Entertainment. A hardboiled police inspector (Lau) must confront, and cross, moral lines in order to hunt down a crew of seasoned criminals. […]
July 6th, 2010 by Gerard Iribe
I remember a few years ago when the studios were billing Jet Li’s Fearless as his final “epic” film. I then saw the trailer for The Warlords over a year ago and was kind of surprised that Jet Li was doing another…”epic” film. You gotta do what you gotta do, right? I was also surprised […]