Tag: gangs

Podcast On Fire: Tragic Hero!

At Podcast On Fire, Kenny B and Phil G watch Tragic Hero (1987)! “The story from Rich and Famous continues but it was Tragic Hero that introduced Hong Kong audiences to these characters. The two film gangster epic wraps up, in 1987’s Tragic Hero.” Listen here.

Thinking about The Gravity

The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some quick thoughts on Cédric Ido’s film The Gravity / La Gravité (France, 2023) at Monstrous Industry. French Burkinabé writer/director Cédric Ido’s The Gravity is a lo fi science fiction thriller—with perhaps a dash of urban folk horror—that uses gravity in both […]

Carol goes to Hong Kong Filmart!

As with so many other events, the 2021 Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (Filmart) moved online and so I was able to attend this year. Along with Noir City International / the 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, the New York Asian Film Festival and […]

“Remember The Warriors”

At The Village Voice, Jackson Connor writes about the making of The Warriors. Amid the refurbished boardwalk and laughter of children, it’s easy to forget that Coney Island was once a place where tourists did not venture. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, street […]