There is a long tradition of on-screen female action stars in Chinese cinema history. Sometimes referred to as 打女/Du Na (see THIS excellent video by Accented Cinema for a deeper dive into this tradition) and starting back when Shanghai was the centre of the Chinese film-making world in the 1930s […]
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Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) A beautiful swan song for a fictional picture house (Review)
Raining in the Mountain (1979) King Hu’s Spiritual Heist (Review)
S16E08 – Cronenberging Your Tamagotchi
After establishing our status as award-winning swimmers (25 metres), The Geek Show returns for another dip in the shallower end of science and technology news, and kicking things off this week is the backlash against the poorly-written final season of Game of Thrones, which has culminated in a petition for […]