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BACK TO THE PAST Review: Louis Koo’s Time Travel Revival Delivers More Than Nostalgia

Back to the Past is available on VOD October 13th from Well Go USA Entertainment The new Louis Koo film, Back to the Past, is aptly named not just because it’s about a man from the future who went back in time and is now living in ancient China, but because it turns out that it’s the follow up to A Step into the Past, a TV series that ended around 25 years ago. This was clearly a passion project for Koo who also serves as producer and seems to have spent years trying to will its return into existence. The story focuses on Hong Siu Lung (Koo) a former elite police officer who has been stuck living in the Qin dynasty for 20 years after traveling back in time to document historical events, only to be unable to return to the future. He now has a family (two wives […]

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BACK TO THE PAST Review: A Nostalgic Triumph For Fans Of The Original TVB Show

It’s been almost 25 years since A Step into the Past premiered on Hong Kong television. The series not only solidified Louis Koo‘s status as a TV star, launching him into a prolific and still-thriving movie career, but also marked Raymond Lam‘s breakout role. His iconic portrayal of Ying Zheng earned widespread praise and propelled him to fame. The show was an instant hit, sparking the wave of time-travel dramas (known as chuanyue) across Asian television and becoming one of the most beloved series for the millennial generation in Asia. Behind it all was the powerhouse TVB. Adapted from Huang Yi’s novel of the same name (Chinese title: 尋秦記), it followed the adventures of Hong Siu-lung, a Hong Kong police inspector who, after a painful breakup with his long-term girlfriend, volunteers for a time-travel experiment. He is sent back to the Qin Dynasty, just 30 minutes before Ying Zheng’s coronation […]

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WALLED IN: TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS

Anticipation Grows As Soi Cheang’s TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN Teaser Drops

To say Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In has martial arts cinema fans champing at the bit would be an understatement. The film, directed by Soi Cheang (Limbo), and starring Raymond Lam (Saving General Yang), Richie Jen (Seoul Raiders), Louis Koo (Paradox), Sammo Hung (Ip Man 2) and Philip Ng (Once Upon a Time in Shanghai) was met with immediate anticipation as soon as it was announced back in 2021. In fact, the film garnered buzz as far back as 2013 when Donnie Yen was rumored to star. Fast forward a decade and here we are, finally getting a taste of what we might see from legendary Action Director, Kenji Tanigaki. I think I can comfortably say that fans won’t be disappointed! While a few snaps of Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In‘s FILMART promo poster made it to Instagram yesterday, Chinese website and newspaper, Ming Pao, posted this teaser late in the […]

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NEW KUNG FU CULT MASTER Reimagines Louis Cha’s Wuxia Classic In Newest Trailer

Already making the rounds is the latest trailer for New Kung Fu Cult Master, the first of two back-to-back installments re-adapting the Jin Yong classic novel from directing duo Wong Jing and Keung Kwok-Man. This one comes subtitled by way of Shaw Theatres who’ve just released the film a few days ago in Singapore. For decades, all forces in the martial world had been fighting for two legendary weapons, the Dragon Saber and the Heavenly Sword. Xie Xun, the “Golden Lion King” of the Ming Sect, had made countless enemies in seizing the Dragon Saber. His god-brother Cuishan (Louis Koo) was coerced by the Six Major Sects to expose Xie Xun’s location and ends up dying under Emei Sect Master No-mercy’s Heavenly Sword… The latest installment rejoins Jing with familiar territory nearly 30 years after directing Jet Li and Chingmy Yau starrer, Kung Fu Cult Master in 1993. The new […]

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