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Cook Up a Storm (Raymond Yip, 2017)

Cook Up a Storm (Raymond Yip, 2017)

One of only two Hong Kong films to be playing at SIFF this year is this cooking movie from star Nicholas Tse and director Raymond Yip. It’s a Lunar New Year film, opening a week after the holiday both at home and abroad, to avoid box office competition from

The Wasted Times (Cheng Er, 2016)

The Wasted Times (Cheng Er, 2016)

The Wasted Times was originally slated to be released in October of 2015. The film’s trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH1HTm51lts] has been playing before presentations of Chinese-language films here in North America for at least that long, but the film kept getting pushed back. There was

Gone with the Bullets (Jiang Wen, 2014)

Gone with the Bullets (Jiang Wen, 2014)

So Jiang Wen made a Wong Jing movie. . . I watched the Thai DVD, which is the first version I’ve seen that has English subtitles. The running time is 119 minutes. Wikipedia and the IMDb give it a running time of 140 minutes, with a 120 minute international cut, while