Film & Video Reviews
That Summer in LA Not Available Yet
When English tourist, Warren Butler (Adam Caine) arrives in Los Angeles, he has no idea what was in store for him.
From the reservation at the Barclay Hotel, to the subsequent mugging by the locals, Warren manages to loose everything within his first few hours. In desperation he throws himself on the mercy of a beautiful Mexican girl, called Marisabel (Talisa Soto).
Agreeing to help the unfortunate tourist Marisabel plans to drive him to a YMCA, after a stop at her sisters Quince'nera Here he meets her extended family, including her two brothers Walker (Jorge Cordova) and Smiley (Alexis Cruz).
I don't know exactly when the movie is going to be released but the soundtrack has worldwide distribution already
and hopefully, so will the film by sometime this year.
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Romeo Must Die
Two families, bound by tradition, are locked in a brutal war.
Asian and African American gangs are vying for control of Oakland's waterfront. But when the first casualty is the Asian warlord's son Po, the gang war becomes more dangerous than either side ever imagined.
News of the murder gets back to Po's big brother Han (Jet Li), a decorated ex-cop wrongly imprisoned in a Hong Kong jail. And it's only a matter of time before Han makes his way to American shores.
In his second Hollywood movie, Jet Li impresses. Unfortunately, when he's not on screen, the
movie slows to a crawl (From: Rotten Tomatoes). Fans of Asian Sirens will love the first 10 minutes of the movie
where two Asian girls Grace Park and Jennifer Wong dance together. There's a little tongue kissing and right after
that one of the girls pulls the top down from the other girl and pulls it back up (Thanks perform_mints for the info).
More info:
Romeo Must Die
Moviefan Online
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Naked Killer
Synopsis:
Gorgeous Kitty (Chingmy Yau) wanders the streets of HK in skimpy leather-and-latex outfits, luring rapists where she can shoot and depenilate them before a painful death. But after killing a triad goon, an army of his minions go in chase. She meets Sister Cindy (Svenwara Madoka) in a staircase, a 40ish Japanese man-hater hope lessly over dressed in lipstick red, who helps take on the gang with crack shooting, a cool kung fu garrote, and a hat with an Oddjob blade in it that matches her dress. Cop Simon Yam falls for Kitty, but suspects that his future girlfriend is at least partly responsible for the recent rash of sex crimes. Little does he know that lesbian lovers Princess (Carrie Ng) and her assistant Baby are assigned to kill Kitty and Cindy for some reason I missed (probably to keep the plot going). It even has those fabled HK subtitles you have to translate into real English as you watch.
Cast: Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching (City Hunter and Sex & The Emperor), Simon Yam Tat-Wah
(Full Contact and Hitman), Carrie Ng Ka-Lai (Remains of A Woman and Sex & Zen), Kelly Yao,
Svenwara Madoka, Yiu Wai, Stephen Lee, Hui Siu-Hung
Movie Book Reviews
Check out some of the essential guides to Hong Kong Movies. Taken from Heroic Cinema selected
for the fans of Asian Sirens!
Archives
Shabondama Elegy (Ian Kerkhof, 1999)
Error in Judgement (Scott Levy, 1998)
