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Based on the true story of Korean’s first serial killer, Kenny B and Hangul Celluloid’s Paul Quinn look back on Bong Joon-ho’s critically acclaimed and audience juggernaut Memories Of Murder. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/Production-background 12m 30s – Bong Joon-ho biography & discussion 37m 50s – Memories Of Murder review Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at […]

Kenny B and Korean cinema expert Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid share their views on 1960’s The Aimless Bullet (considered the best Korean movie ever made), its director and legacy. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/Production-background 20m 05s – Yu Hyun-mok biography & discussion 36m 04s – The Aimless Bullet review Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, […]

Let’s talk some fucking chopsticks! And more specifically where the fuck they are! It’s the mystery of Cash Chin’s dual opus The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks 1 & 2. Adapted from classical Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei, the director of The Eternal Evil Of Asia brought back the Category III period erotica in 2008 […]

We continue to ask ourselves: Team Tam or not Team Tam? Welcome to Podcast On Fire and the Alan Tam Crapping Hour. As for the first movie up for review, Mummy Dearest is a lesser known Ronny Yu movie where Tam plays a serial killer. Also in the second half, the Aces Go Places formula or franchise comes […]

Once upon a time there was a big forest and in it sat two podcasters. One found a movie based on a fairy tale about deers fighting wolves (and there’s also exotic dancing) and the other found a movie where West meets East mixed with a possibly supernatural serial killer plotting. Far apart in genre […]

Ebola Ebola! Let’s spread it together! Herman Yau and bestie Anthony Wong crafts what is probably one of Hong Kong’s most foul pictures. We’re of course talking of and we’re going to be talking of 1996’s Ebola Syndrome and in the second half we re-enter the Chinese torture chamber. Discussing the unrelated followup to Wong […]

In this episode, No Risk No Gain (Casino Raiders The Sequel, but it isn’t one) pairs up Alan Tam with Andy Lau once again while Wong Jing takes a backseat and Taylor Wong takes his place as co-director. Uh oh. Also in the second half, the Lucky Stars gang…barely appears and we get another lecherous, […]

Let’s talk the fucking of Ho Fan’s. In a tribute kind of episode, we talk of the recently deceased photographer/actor/director and send him out by going back to his Shaw Brothers days crafting gorgeous looking misadventures in fooling in the form of 1975’s Girl With The Long Hair. Also, his take on the source material Sex And Zen also […]

One starts off his directing career with a distressing, social drama, another goes West so on this episode of we take a look at Derek Yee’s directorial debut The Lunatics and Chow Yun-Hollywood debut in the form of The Replacement Killers. Special co-host, Kevin Ma of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Contact the show via email […]

In 2012 we saw The Bullet Vanishes and now one of its stars, Lau Ching-Wan and director Law Chi-Leung returns with The Vanished Murderer. Plus Aaron Kwok and a chicken on the poster for Farewell My Concubine’s Chen Kaige’s new film Monk Comes Down The Mountain. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on […]

Let’s talk some fucking Category III movies of note! In this episode, we find out what a dick(head) move it is to go to Thailand on your holiday to whore and we’ll step inside the Chinese torture chamber as envisioned by Wong Jing. Therefore we’ll review Cash Chin’s The Eternal Evil Of Asia from 1995 […]

One starts off his directing career, another troupe is concluding their crime saga. We are therefore covering Jackie Chan’s directorial debut Fearless Hyena and the finale to the ‘Infernal Affairs’ trilogy where we go back and forward but there is a period put on the continuous hell theme in Infernal Affairs III. With Kenny B and Phil […]

Hong Kong cinema is the cinema of contrasts, often in the same movie but this week, dark is kept to one movie and light within the other. Starting with Corey Yuen’s dark actioner Righting Wrongs where Yuen Biao loses faith in the justice system. And in the second half, the review of Cinema City’s cashcow […]

  The very kind and talkative Richard Norton returns to go over some other aspects of his career we didn’t cover in our first chat, including his computer game credits in more detail, becoming the fight choreographer on Gymkata, more on working with Sammo Hung, on Ghost In The Shell and his stint as fight […]

We continue our chat with Brian Trenchard-Smith, touching upon the making of The Man From Hong Kong, how Brian transitioned from Australia to the US and the origin story of his novel The Headsman’s Daughter. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. Music court...

We’re delighted and honored to be joined, in the first of two parts, by filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith. As much connected to Australian, US and even Hong Kong cinema, the interview takes you through his television days up till the point where he pitched The Man From Hong Kong to Golden Harvest. Contact the show via email […]

Ninja supremacy in a fight against evil and tyranny. Lust, evil and crime run rampant. Can they be stopped? Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed . Intro music created by JAKAZiD. Show Links: The Golden Ninja Podcast at Stitcher sogoodreviews.com Sleazy K’s...

Let’s talk Charlie-fucking of recent times! They knew who they were casting and getting for random sex comedies in the 90s. Now he’s wiser, older and still game to be the scumbag, sleazebag, lecherous Charlie and that’s what we’re here to celebrate with reviews of 2015’s Super Models and 2014’s Flirting In The Air. Contact […]

Your hosts take you back to the controversy the little film Lies, about S & M, caused in 1999. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/Lies-novel and author Jang Jung-il discussion 10m 57s – Jang Sun-woo biography & discussion/Lies-controversy 33m 17s – Lies review Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodrevi...

Sexual awakening after a lifeless marriage… excuse for T & A or an attempt to deconstruct in a mature AND adult way? We’ll see what 1982’s Madam Aema holds as we review and discuss it. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/Movie-series and censorship background 24m 48s – Jeong In-yeob biography & discussion 28m 49s – Madam […]

After a successful outing alongside Jackie Chan in Police Story III: Supercop, Stanley Tong and Michelle Yeoh teamed up for a spin off movie involving her character and Jackie Chan in drag for a minute. We’ll therefore talk of how Project S fares and in the second half, the ‘Police Story’ series continues its global […]

For our second episode in the series about director Hideo Gosha, we stay in samurai territory, watching the of shape his often intense, downbeat, dirty, grimey voice even more. With focus on 1969’s Hitokiri, we also track progress via quick reviews of the works in the wake of his debut Three Outlaw Samurai covered last […]

Hong Kong cinema deliverying early 80s gunplay, violence and grit versus Hong Kong cinema delivering Coolio and Aaron Kwok on fast bikes and in fast cars that go vroom vroom. This week, the reviews of Terry Tong’s tough, gritty and violent Coolie Killer from 1982 and Stanley Tong internationally flavored actioner China Strike Force. With […]

For once, we’re talking AVAILABLE Taiwanese cinema. It can be prolific, important aaaaand promptly lost. But since it has been part of the discussion, somewhat available before but now to the masses via a shiny new restoration, Taiwan Noir tackles a high profile Taiwanese movie for once: King Hu’s Dragon Inn from 1967. Contact the show […]

We go back to 1983’s Duel To The Death where director Ching Siu-tung shows us fun with swords, ninjas, gore and maturity mixed into all of it?! Another crew that goes back is the Infernal Affairs-one. Expanding the legend and the theme of continuous hell, Infernal Affairs II takes our moles, cops and gangsters back […]