Hong Kong action cinema has a great tradition of cop movies, not just the headliners Police Story and Hard Boiled. In the Line of Duty is coming out next week, but first Shout! Factory has the Tiger Cage trilogy. Like Duty, these are three standalone cop movies, though all three of these are directed […]
These were Jackie Chan’s first comedies, both directed by Yuen Woo Ping who would choreograph The Matrix, Crouching Tiger and direct many amazing Hong Kong films himself. The typical kung fu movie was a student trained really hard to avenge his master. Chan spoofed that formula by playing imbeciles whose exploited their shortcomings. His fight […]