East Screen West Screen episode 096

East Screen:

LOVE HONG KONG 2012 [2012我愛HK喜上加囍]

ALL’S WELL ENDS WELL 2012 [八星抱喜]

West Screen:

THE MUPPETS

Video Pick:

I LOVE HONG KONG [我愛HK開心萬歲]

Happy Lunar New Year folks. This week it's all about the latest Chinese New Year films from Hong Kong and some special Hollywood imports. Up first it's I LOVE HONG KONG 2012 [2012我愛HK喜上加囍], then on to ALL’S WELL ENDS WELL 2012 [八星抱喜]. Finally, it's the return of THE MUPPETS as they make their way to Hong Kong cinemas.

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East Screen West Screen episode 095

East Screen:

THE GREAT MAGICIAN [大魔術師]

West Screen:

n/a

Video Pick:

Upcoming releases

Busy times abound in the week before Chinese New Year, but we still manage to throw togehter a quick episode to talk about THE GREAT MAGICIAN [大魔術師] and some upcoming video releases.

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East Screen West Screen episode 094

East Screen:

SPEED ANGELS [極速天使]

West Screen:

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011)

Video Pick:

YOU SHOOT, I SHOOT [買兇拍人] Blu-ray

We kick off season 3 with the first new Hong Kong film release of 2012, SPEED ANGELS [極速天使]. And they we turn to the Hollywood remake of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and finally we bring back our video pick segment and feature the recent Blu-ray release of the remastered 2001 film YOU SHOOT, I SHOOT [買兇拍人].

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East Screen West Screen episode 093

East Screen:

FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE [龍門飛甲]

TURNING POINT 2 [Laughing Gor之潛罪犯]

West Screen:

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL

After some slightly bumpy holiday travel, Kevin and I are back to wrap up some thoughts on the December films of 2011. From Hong Kong we have Tsui Hark's latest FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE [龍門飛甲], then a sequel to a Hong Kong TV drama series TURNING POINT 2 [Laughing Gor之潛罪犯] as well as the latest Hollywood sequels SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL.

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East Screen West Screen Halloween Special 2011

Full commentary track for VIRTUAL RECALL [異空危情]

Happy Holidays folks. For our special commentary episode Ross Chen of www.lovehkfilm.com stops buy to help Kevin and I comment on VIRTUAL RECALL [異空危情]. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Enjoy :-)

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East Screen West Screen episode 092

East Screen:

MAGIC TO WIN [開心魔法]

West Screen:

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2011)

It's our last official episode before we break for the holidays. Kevin broadcasts from the streets of Tokyo to talk about the latetst Hong Kong film MAGIC TO WIN [開心魔法]. Then I discuss the latest attempt to bring Robert E. Howard's iconic Cimmerian back to the big screen with the CONAN THE BARBARIAN reboot.

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East Screen West Screen episode 091

East Screen:

EAST MEETS WEST [東成西就2011]

West Screen:

THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN

After full belies from Thanksgiving turkey, we've fallen behind a bit, but we're back to look at Jeff Lau's latest genre bending parody EAST MEETS WEST [東成西就2011]. Then, in a rare moment of release schedule history, we actually get to see Spielberg's latest film THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN before it sees US release

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East Screen West Screen episode 090

East Screen:

LEGENDARY AMAZONS [楊門女將之軍令如山]

LOVE IS NOT BLIND [失戀３３天]

West Screen:

DRIVE

For episode 90, we look at a blast from Shaw Brothers' past with LEGENDARY AMAZONS [楊門女將之軍令如山], a remake of remake of the classic THE 14 AMAZONS [十四女英豪] from 1972. Kevin pops across the border into China to see LOVE IS NOT BLIND [失戀３３天] and then heads back West to look at the crime drama DRIVE.

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East Screen West Screen episode 089

East Screen:

LET’S GO [保衛戰隊之出動喇！朋友！],

STARRY STARRY NIGHT [星空]

West Screen:

MARGIN CALL

For episode 89, we look to Hong Kong with LET’S GO [保衛戰隊之出動喇！朋友！], and then head to Taiwan to talk about STARRY STARRY NIGHT [星空]. Then we head back West to look at MARGIN CALL a story that takes place at the head of the 2008 financial crisis.

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East Screen West Screen episode 088

East Screen:

RA.ONE

YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE [那些年, 我們一起追的女孩]

West Screen:

IN TIME

For episode 88, we first turn to India for a holiday film release from Shah Rukh Khan as Bollywood meets sci-fi for RA.ONE. Next stop is Taiwan for the nostalgic biopic from Taiwanese blogger/author Giddens, YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE [那些年, 我們一起追的女孩]. And with precious little time remaining we head west to cover Andrew Niccol's latest film IN TIME.

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