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Enterprising, forward thinking youths open a business because money is the future, right? Or is that love and friendship? Starring singers and untested actors, including Leon Lai, this is the opening episode of our examination of the films of one of the Four Heavenly Kings and it comes to you in the form of Clara […]

Tsui Hark enters the magical, mystical world of the Wuxia film and the magical world of film, making his debut with 1979’s The Butterfly Murders. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Butterfly Murders background, on Tsui Hark’s early career, alternate versions etc. […]

John Woo comes out swinging and kicking for his debut feature, 1973’s The Young Dragons, with Jackie Chan as his action director. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Young Dragons background. 11m 51s – The Young Dragons review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire […]

After a 11 year hiatus, the Whispering Corridors series is back with its 6th entry. Containing horror that leads into hints of great sadness and insanity connected to friendship and South Korea’s turbulent history, we’ll tell you all about it discussing Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running […]

Before there was a completed and released Ashes Of Time, pretty much everyone that ended up being associated with it made something very silly: 1993’s The Eagle Shooting Heroes. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Eagle Shooting Heroes production background, box office, reception, missing footage. 26m 22s – The Eagle Shooting Heroes review. Contact the show […]

When Wong Kar-wai does a Wuxia film, things get introspective and blurry. Joining Kenny B to discuss Ashes Of Time is Paul Fox and Kevin Ma of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/Jin Yong biography and discussion. 34m 35s – Ashes of Time production background, box office, awards, the […]

It’s the annual Podcast On Fire Trivia Night disguised as our Christmas Special. Kenny B is this year’s Lord Quizmaster and Stewart Sutherland and Tom K-W (of The Lager Logs) along with East Screen West Screen’s Paul Fox compete for a sweet Canto-pop prize. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook […]

The whispers in the corridor do not stop and the Ghost School Horror series out of Korea is on its fourth and fifth entry: 2005’s Voice and 2009’s A Blood Pledge. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/series box office, notes on the director 27m 17s – […]

In another entry in The Versus-series, Leung Kar-yan makes his directorial debut with the wild revenge actioner Profile In Anger from 1984 and in the Shaw Brothers production Danger Has Two Faces from 1985 he’s an ex-cop turned assassin for hire. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Adkins Undisputed podcast. 00m 00s – […]

Mabel Cheung and Alex Law make their Jackie Chan movie but it’s the story of his parents and China’s turbulent history… in feature form. With Kenny B and Tom K-W. 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. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Story Of […]

The mythical origin points of Tai Chi and its creator gets covered in high flying fashion in Yuen Woo-ping’s The Tai-Chi Master from 1993. With Kenny B and Stewart Sutherland of the Films & Swearing and Lager Logs podcast! Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Tai-Chi Master production background. 17m 35s – The Tai-Chi Master review […]

It’s possibly the strangest gathering of talents and elements ever. Featuring the man who would be Jigsaw, a former pornographic movie actress, a mainstay of the Coen Brothers’ films, elephants, professional wrestlers, and the world’s busiest action actor. Yes of course, it’s a Tsui Hark film as he returns to the Black Mask universe without […]

Let’s talk some Bruce Lee and Betty Ting Pei fucking! From the perspective of the latter, we get the story of the pot smoking, drinking, bullying prankster with brain disease that was Bruce Lee. Plus tits, with the Shaw Scope logo proudly attached. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal who invites you […]

The Monkey’s Paw and ballet collide in the third Ghost School Horror entry. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/literary background 22m 40s – Notes on the director, box office 37m 13s – Wishing Stairs review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews)...

Jet Li is a super soldier Kato lookalike in Hong Kong’s superhero actioner Black Mask. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Adkins Undisputed podcast. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Michael Scott interview 24m 40s – Black Mask background/box office/on director Daniel Lee/Taiwanese version 43m 03s – Black Mask review Contact the show via […]

A podcast that originally was supposed to be on the Spectrum blu ray of Spacked Out, Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast discuss the Johnnie To produced Category III rated youth drama from director Lawrence Lau. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE […]

Sandwiched in between Young And Dangerous 5 and its concluding part Born To Be King, Andrew Lau and Manfred Wong take us back to the past Hung Hing boys. Played by other boys. It’s Young And Dangerous: The Prequel and as a send off to the coverage despite having no narrative connection to the universe, […]

The Whispering Corridors-series had wind in its sails commercially but rather than do a year later in the same all-girls school follow-up, the makers decided to create a thread for the series based on similar setting and supernatural elements but not story. So for 1999’s Memento Mori, spooky and heart-breaking stuff is back but also […]

New wave Korean cinema of the late 90s and onwards logged iconic imagery, settings and atmosphere. Whether through blockbuster action, exploration of vengeance, relationships between North and South Korea at the DMZ but in one of the film industries OG years, at the start of a re-birth we find spooky stuff set in a school […]

Let’s talk some naughty and nice fucking! Or rather movies operating on the silly, cruel and rather pleasant scale of Category III. Over in the cruel camp, Wong Jing produces Emperor’s palace intrigue, nastiness and dopiness in Sex And The Emperor. Also, a positive comedy about overcoming the odds and becoming the picture-perfect image for […]

Alex Law sits in the director’s chair for the first time since the 90s and saves a local Hong Kong street, in real life in the process. Also awards and stuff for 2010’s Echoes Of The Rainbow. With Kenny B and Tom K-W. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) […]

Our series on the films of Michael Wong comes to a close. Will he be Wong or Wrong? A trio of movies is up for review, starting with the Tsui Hark, Jean-Claude Van Damme visual treat that is Knock Off. Going from Hong Kong to Prague, Michael teams up with Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon for […]

Korean cinema throws their hat into the J-horror ring… by making a Ring of their own. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times:  00m 00s – Intro/background on the novel, Japanese film adaptations, reception of The Ring Virus and director 48m 44s – The Ring Virus review. Contact the show via email […]

  It’s Monkey Kung Fu, across Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers in this entry of the Versus Series. First up, Sammo Hung’s 1979 kung fu comedy Knockabout starring Yuen Biao and from Shaw Brothers in the same year, John Law’s Monkey Kung Fu. Featuring in a rare starring role master action director and director Ching […]

It’s the last adventure of the Hung Hing boys, in Born To Be King from 2000. Also that same year, perhaps as a way of making up for his absence in part 5, Chicken’s backstory gets revealed by the director of Portland Street Blues in Those Were The Days. With Kenny B and Paul Fox […]