Podcast on Fire (Podcast on Fire Network)

For the first new Podcast On Fire of 2013, we’ve decided to tweak the format ever so slightly and tackle more high profile classics of Hong Kong cinema so out of the gate there’s hefty discussions on Lo Wei’s The Big Boss starring Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan’s Dragon Lord. Kenny B and Tom K-W […]

Although not part of his top 10 Hong Kong movies, naturally the excellent sequel to Once Upon A Time In Triad Society must get a spotlight courtesy of Kenny B. Especially since it’s a wild mix of satire, fun and heart! Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and […]

Two are hungover, one’s high on energy drinks…it can only mean the Podcast On Fire Christmas special is here for the 6th time! Mixing Western (Jingle All The Way, The Ref) and Eastern Christmas picks (Curry And Pepper, Poetry), top 5 lists, and 2013 predictions, the Podcast On Fire Network also would like to wish […]

Stoo and Andy return to provide you with your dose of Caucasian and Asian in a podcast! Touching upon The Walking Dead (after the credits there’s  discussion of the mid-season finale), End Of Watch and thoughts on trailers for Snitch and Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmasters, feature topic comes in the form of a look back […]

The so far quite much beloved Tom On Fire segment returns in a big bad way as Tom brings the following topics to the table that you can follow along with and discuss at home: *How, as we’ve got older and our tastes for cinema in general have changed has this changed the way we […]

With a dose of Caucasian and Asian,  Stoo and Andy return to discuss hollywood blockbusters Taken 2 and Paranormal Activity 4. Also at hand, a trailer round up on Park Chan-wook’s Hollywood debut Stoker and The Thieves as well as a hearty discussion on South Korea’s Woochi: The Demon Slayer. Contact the show via email […]

From the sharp mind of Master Stoo: I’m  spinning the podcast in a different direction for episode 141! Kevin Smith always encourages people to sit down with people that they find interesting and record a podcast. So I dialed up my best man Andy Walker and our discussion spirals out of control as a consequence! […]

Bringing the Milkyway Treasures to a close, Kenny B and Tom K-W have a big Johnnie To-90s-A-Thon with A Hero Never Dies, Running Out Of Time and The Mission. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group (NEW) or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes […]

Kenny B is cheating a little by taking a detour into the 2000’s for the Milkyway Treasures of the 90s but it’s warranted as one of the directors they wished to push and promote was Derek Chiu! Up for review is therefore is his black comedy Comeuppance (2000) and the island set romance Sealed With […]

BEFORE this backup show does its thing, Stoo hijacks the feed to talk of his yearly charity endevour Extra Life 2012 for The Royal Hospital For Sick Children and the looming 24 hour game marathon that goes along with it. You can support him by going to his profile page and listen in to hear […]

Scary violence, iconic actors and cinematic cool, Milkyway might not have been thriving financially but definitely cinematically! Kenny B is at hand to give his take The Longest Nite and Expect The Unexpected therefore. For those of you who want thoughts on the ending of the latter, stay after the sign off and end music […]

Enter a new filmmaker at Milkyway: Derek Chiu! Just like Johnnie To, Chiu had the finger on the pulse of quirky but Final Justice deals in religion, forgiveness, alleged rape, Eric Tsang as a vicious triad boss and the court room-drama. Still not conventional nor a hit for Milkyway but how does it work as […]

Let’s watch the commercial elements of triads turned on its head literally with the review of Wai Ka-fai’s Too Many Ways To Be No. 1. We also scored the authority and historian on all things late 90s triad elements, i.e. our very own Stewart Sutherland who checks in to talk life, movies, plans for The […]

We’ve reached the era containing the myth of director Patrick Yau and his three movies at Milkyway that he barely directed but before Tom K-W tells us of his London trip watching Ann Hui’s A Simple Life and Ken re-examines Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. Latter half features the review of the hard to explain, […]

Now here’s a little something we prepared earlier… from the archive at POFN Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave put the finishing touches on the “Banana Ripening” series of. It started in episode 127 with their review of Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday, continued during episode 131 with Over The Rainbow, Under The Skirt and the chapter of […]

Trying to find their way and money, Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai gave Stephen Chow’s scriptwriter his own Category III rated, dark and relentless terrorride. Tonight it’s Tsang Kan-cheung’s Intruder (1997) that gets the spotlight. Dogs and kids are NOT safe from Wu Chien-lien. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our […]

From the backlog of backup shows as we’re all doing something else this week, Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave continue their coverage of the “Banana Ripening” series started in episode 127 with their review of Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday. This episode the sequel Over The Rainbow, Under The Skirt (1994) gets its due as Bo […]

The debut of our coverage of forgotten, somewhat forgotten or unavailable movies from the first few years of Johnnie To’s and Wai Ka-fai’s production company Milkyway Image, the very start is the focus for this episode: Patrick Leung’s assassination-thriller Beyond Hypothermia, starring Wu Chien-lien and Lau Ching-wan. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at […]

Alone in the back up chair, coming in from the substitute bench is Kenny B in a little POF we prepared earlier for you. Reviewing Chang Cheh’s blood soaked masterpiece The Duel (1971), Ken also tortures himself by sitting through the “funny” remix edit of the movie called Iron Fist Pillage. The makers are going […]

After a well received trial run, Tom On Fire returns with Kenny B and Tom K-W discussing  Hong Kong cinema post-Handover and validness of home video format such as Blu Ray, dvd and laserdisc. Also included are network updates recapping this past week that included THREE podcasts including this one, fan mail, Tom’s views on […]

With life, rock fesitvals and Hong Kong trips out of the way, Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave sits town for a Hong Kong trip recap, take a trip down giallo memory lane before taking in the full nostalgia reviewing Samson Chiu’s Hong Kong The Wonder Years, aka Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday. Ken’s note: I id’d […]

  Ken is rockin’ out at the Sweden Rock Festival but was rockin’ the mic solo earlier in the week to give you this POF quickie. Covering the network releases of the week and what’s been done recently, up for review is Danny Go’s underrated Hong Kong thriller Bloody Friday (1996) starring Simon Yam. Contact […]

The regular network updates and last movies watched quickly give way to a Tom K-W initiative…essentially a Tom On Fire section of Podcast On Fire and with Kenny B the discussion (bring your smoking jackets) is taken to place concerning subtitles for Hong Kong movies, distribution, reviewers, availability of movies, collecting mentality and the pro’s […]

Phil G returns and brings to Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave the Korean remake of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow. At 2 hours, how does it fare and can you avoid comparing it to Woo’s original? Also network updates, talks of Takashi Miike’s Harakiri, The Prodigal Son and the last 15 years of Chow […]

  Kenny B and Hong Dave catch up and assemble before Dave heads out to The Avengers. Talking Hong Kong and Taiwan street grit, Chicken And Duck Talk and the shortest Shaw Brothers movie ever made, for main review and discussion we’ve picked the Japanese horror flick The Living Skeleton. Bats on strings included. Contact […]