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Chasing The Dragon

Stars: Donnie Yen, Andy Lau, Philip Keung, Wilfred Lau, Wilfred Lau, Kent Cheng, Bryan Larkin, Ben Ng, Ken Tong, Niki Chow, Michelle Hu, Wai-Man Chan, Lawrence Chou, Wong Chun, Jai Day | Written and Directed by Wong Jing

Crippled Ho, an illegal immigrant from mainland China sneaks into British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, a den of corruption, drugs and violence. Working as a thug for a local gang, Ho comes to the attention of corrupt cop Lee Rock. The unlikely duo team up and set about taking over the city’s thriving, dangerous underworld.

Directed by Hong Kong film veteran Wong Jing (God of Gamblers), Chasing the Dragon has been described as a Chinse version of Scarface – and its easy to see why. Both films are something of a period piece: Scarface was set in the opulent 80s when drug dealers became rock stars, whereas Chasing the Dragon is set in the corrupt,...

If our Us readers haven't already rushed out at bought their copy then don't forget you can check out Pang Ho-Cheung's 'Dream Home' now on DVD thanks to IFC Midnight. 'Dream Home', not to be confused with the Jim Sheridan movie 'Dream House', stars Josie Ho, Eason Chan, Derek Tsang, Lawrence Chou, Juno Mak and Michelle Ye. Check out the plot and the poster below....

Rank the week of August 9th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Paul

(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #764

Win Percentage: 55%

Times Ranked: 7626

Top-20 Rankings: 22

Directed By: Greg Mottola

Starring: Simon Pegg • Nick Frost • Seth Rogen • Jane Lynch • Sigourney Weaver

Genres: Adventure • Comedy • Road Movie • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Comedy • Adventure Comedy

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Super

(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #2200

Win Percentage: 54%

Times Ranked: 2471

Top-20 Rankings: 11

Directed By: James Gunn

Starring: Rainn Wilson • Ellen Page • Liv Tyler • Kevin Bacon • Michael Rooker

Genres: Action • Action Comedy • Black Comedy • Comedy • Comedy Drama • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Drama • Satire • Based-on-Comics

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Jumping The Broom

(DVD & Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #16475

Win Percentage: 32%

Times Ranked: 46

Top-20 Rankings: 2

Directed By: Salim Akil

Starring: Angela Bassett • Paula Patton • Meagan Good • Laz Alonso • Julie Bowen

Genres: Comedy • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama

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Your Highness

(DVD & Blu-ray | R...

Hong Kong's first slasher film 'Dream Home' (Aka 'Wai dor lei ah yut ho'), is certainly high on the radar lately. Pang Ho-Cheung's new blood-thirsty feature is looking more and more awesome day by day. A massive batch of new stills from the movie have been released and are particulary gruesome. Take note that these baby's are not safe for work (Nsfw) and do include the sight of a hot topless Asian chick with a large bit of wood being inserted in her (oo-er!). 'Dream Home' stars Josie Ho, Michelle Ye, Lawrence Chou, Eason Chan, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Norman Chu, Hee Ching Paw and Lap-Man Sin. Check out the stills below....

Pang Ho-Cheung's 'Dream Home' (Aka 'Wai dor lei ah yut ho'), not to be confused with Jim Sheridan's new mystery thriller 'Dream House' starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts, is coming to VOD. And to celebrate this fact a new international one-sheet has popped up featuring a nasty looking set of keys. Josie Ho, Michelle Ye, Lawrence Chou, Eason Chan, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Norman Chu, Hee Ching Paw, Lap-Man Sin all star in the slasher flick. Check out the new one-sheet below....

 

                                                  

This is the new international poster for director Pang Ho-Cheung's Dream House. The Hong Kong slasher flick stars Josie Ho, Michelle Ye, Lawrence Chou and Eason Chan. There's still no word of an official U.S. release from IFC Midnight who acquired the film back in October but should be sometime this Spring.

Plot:

Cheng Li-sheung is a young, upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through, she is forced to keep her dream alive - even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors dead.

"Although brutal and unnervingly realistic at times, Dream Home is full of inventive deaths and comical touches..."

Acclaimed Hong Kong Director, Pang-Ho-Cheung picked up film festival awards for 2006's Isabella and 2007's Exodus and after a three year break returns with the comically gory and socially relevant, Dream Home.

Struggling to survive and desperate to live at Victoria Place overlooking the harbour, Sheung works in Jetways bank and has a second store job. Supporting her ex-builder father (who inhaled asbestos and now needs expensive medical treatment and life insurance) isn't easy when he's so ungrateful and smoking/drinking away any chance of survival. With her mother dead and her brother dependent, Sheung's only support is an unsympathetic cheap-skate lover with his own family.

The government in Hong Kong have formed an alliance with property developers causing widespread unrest. Surrounded by signs of despair, Sheung's situation is clearly not unique -...

IFC acquired the North American rights to the thriller Dream Home . Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung and starring award-winning actress and rock star Josie Ho, Anthony Wong, Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, and veteran actors Wong Ching and Lo Hoi Panground off the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film theatrically and on VOD in early 2011. Dream Home was filmed entirely in Hong Kong and tells the story of a young woman who goes over the edge when she discovers that she can no longer afford the home of her dreams. She has to work hard at two full-time jobs, and she even goes as far as stealing customer data to sell to other companies. However, no matter how much she toils, she cannot earn enough to keep up with the...

The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!

From the Press Release

This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.

The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!

Programme = Screen 1

Thursday Aug 26

6.30pm Hatchet II  (World Premiere)

FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...

How far would you go to keep your dream home? That's the question director Pang Ho Cheung will ask of audiences when his new movie Dream Home comes out later this year. Judging by the stills this film's main character is willing to go pretty damned far!

Dream Home tells the story of a young woman who goes to extreme measures when she can no longer afford her dream home. The film, which is in post-production, stars Josie Ho (Exiled) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) with Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, Wong Ching, and Lo Hoi Pang.

The filmmakers are hoping to turn the flick into a successful franchise, and I'm willing to bet that if the movie is even halfway good, we'll be seeing an American remake in like two weeks.

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Variety just reported on a new Chinese slasher film that was filmed right under our nose. Fortissimo Films has boarded Hong Kong helmer Pang Ho-cheung's slasher pic Dream Home which tells the story of a young woman who goes to extreme measures when she can no longer afford her dream home. Start-up shingle 852 Films is producing the pic, for which Fortissimo is handling worldwide sales, excluding Hong Kong. "Dream Home," which is in post-production, stars Josie Ho ("Exiled") and Anthony Wong ("Infernal Affairs"), Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen, Lawrence Chou, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak, Sin Lap Man, Wong Ching and Lo Hoi Pang. "We're hoping with 'Dream Home' to have a repeat of the success we previously enjoyed in the genre zone with the 'Eye' films," commented Fortissimo co-chairman Michael J. Werner.

Screened

San Francisco International Film Festival

"The Eye", made by the Hong Kong twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a stylish horror flick that was a hit in Asia.

It possesses a smart concept (unlike, say, "Identity") and takes no illogical, improbable turns while delivering its chills. Given the success of "The Ring" and its Japanese precursor, adventurous American filmgoers should readily take to this Cantonese-language film, slated for a June release by Palm Pictures. ("The Eye II" is in production.)

The tale's protagonist, Wong Kar Mun Lee Sin-je), has been blind since age 2. She lives in Hong Kong with her cantankerous grandmother and her sister, a flight attendant. At the movie's opening, Mun is about to undergo a corneal transplant in both eyes, with the hope that she'll regain her sight. The operation is a success, but her new corneas bring her frightening visions.

She encounters specters who terrorize her with cryptic complaints: "I'm freezing", moans an old woman. "I'm hungry", says a young boy eating a candle, waxy flakes falling from his mouth. Mun not only sees dead people, she sees Death itself.

As Mun begins to retreat to her room and back into darkness, her handsome young therapist, Dr. Lo (Lawrence Chou), who's helping Mun deal with her new sensory input, grows concerned. He hears her fantastic story and realizes he and Mun must learn more about the corneas' donor if they are to understand the apparitions.

There are some frighteningly creepy moments, such as when Dr. Lo shows Mun a picture of her adult self for the first time, and she doesn't see what she expects (or what we expect). And when Mun first regains her sight, we see with her blurred vision: everything ghostly, indistinct and vaguely threatening. The movie also earns its fiery finish, without resulting to trickery, as "The Sixth Sense" did.

The movie's biggest achievement may be Lee's performance. Long after Mun's bandages have come off, Lee still gives Mun an unblinking, unfocused look, suggesting that even though Mun can see, she doesn't know what she's looking at. Her terror is palpable, and her attempts to erase not only her specters but her newfound sight as well are heartbreaking. Mun knew who she was as a blind person; by gaining her sight, she's lost her identity and, quite possibly, her sanity.

Not everything works in this film. The Pangs rely too much on blaring music cues to make the audience jump, and they haven't a clue how to handle romance.

The brothers' previous film together, "Bangkok: Dangerous", wasn't much more than an extended music video. This time around, they've made a real movie.

THE EYE

Palm Pictures

Applause Pictures Ltd, Premiere PR

Credits:

Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang

Screenwriters: Jo Jo Yuet Chun Hui, Danny Pang, Oxide Pang

Producers: Lawrence Tan-shui Cheng, Peter Ho-sun Chan

Director of photography, Decha Srimantra

Production designers: Simon So, Kritapas Suttinet

Music: Orange Music

Costume designers: Stephanie Wong, Jittima Kongsri

Editors: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang

Cast:

Wong Kar Mun: Lee Sin-je

Dr Lo: Lawrence Chou

Ying Ying: Yut Lai So

Ling: Chutcha Rujinanon

Running time -- 101 minutes

No MPAA rating...