daronmuraySep 27, 20227 min readFurther Afield: Stephen Fung's The Adventurers In regards to his personal life, this hasn’t exactly been the best year for actor Andy Lau. At the start of the year Lau was filming a...
daronmuraySep 21, 20224 min readFurther Afield: Yoon Young-bin's Paid in Blood a.k.a Tomb of the River Initially called Tomb of the River when released in its native South Korea, Paid in Blood (2021) has gone through something of a name...
daronmurayJul 21, 20225 min readFurther Afield: Renat Davletyarov's The Pilot (2021)I must admit, I wasn’t exactly aware of the Russian WW2 movie The Pilot: A Battle for Survival (2021) before being offered the...
daronmurayJun 30, 20227 min readFurther Afield: Herman Yau's Shock Wave 2 (2020)When it comes to sequels, there are those that standout as being equal if not better than the original. Some of the more obvious choices...
daronmurayApr 9, 20214 min readFurther Afield: Takeshi Miike's First Love (2019)Harkening back to the likes of Dead or Alive (1999) and City of Lost Souls (2000), Takashi Miike returns once again to the Yakuza genre...
daronmurayJan 20, 20205 min readFurther Afield: Cui Siwei's Savage (2019)Screenwriter Cui Siwei makes his directorial debut with Savage (2018), a snowbound thriller that may be slightly lacking in character...
daronmurayJan 20, 20204 min readFurther Afield: Chuck Russell's Junglee (2019)After helming such hits as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (1987), The Mask (1994) and The Scorpion King (2001), Hollywood director Chuck...
daronmurayJan 17, 20205 min readFurther Afield: Park Hoon-jung's The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion (2018)After helming gritty crime thrillers New World (2013) and V.I.P (2017), director Park Hoon-jung unexpectedly changes tact with Sci-fi...