Category Archives: Cinema Screenings

This week in cinemas: ‘The Breakup Guru’ (China)

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Justin

In Aussie cinemas this week (and opening well in China and some USA cinemas according to according to Variety, despite the money-hoovering colossus of Transformers 4) is Chinese rom-com The Breakup Guru.

Starring Yang Mi and Deng Chao (who also co-directs with Yu Baimei), the trailer suggests that this film is going for My Sassy Girl territory, but I’m guessing that it swaps the tugging at heartstrings for louder comedy fare.

The Breakup Guru opens in most … (read more)

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This week in cinemas: ‘Overheard 3’ (Hong Kong)

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Justin

Arriving tomorrow May 29 in Aussie cinemas we have the latest installment in this series from writer/director duo Alan Mak and Felix Chong (the team behind the Infernal Affairs trilogy, and more recently The Lost Bladesman and The Silent War.)

Overheard 3 stars the series’ usual trio of HK A-listers Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu, plus Zhou Xin and a supporting cast of familiar Hong Kong faces. As with the previous film, it’s a very loose sequel: … (read more)

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This week in cinemas: ‘Aberdeen’ (Hong Kong)

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Justin

In Australian cinemas this week is a bit of a change of pace from Hong Kong director Edmond Pang Ho-cheung, after 2012’s adult-film industry comedy Vulgaria. His newest film Aberdeen is a quieter family “dramedy” — I still find it hard to type that particular term — focusing on the ups and downs of a typical Hong Kong family.

It’s got a killer cast of HK veterans, starting with Louis Koo, Eric Tsang, Miriam Yeung, Gigi Leung, Ng Man-tat … (read more)

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This week in cinemas: ‘Iceman’ (3D, China/Hong Kong)

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Justin

Donnie Yen aficionados will be happy to find that their latest fix is arriving in Australian cinemas next Thursday, May 1st. Iceman is a remake of minor HK classic The Iceman Cometh (which starred Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah and had some really, really impressive stunt work).

Donnie stars as a Ming Dynasty soldier, frozen in the ice only to be revived in the present day, along with his equally-skilled evil foe (Wang Baoqiang, recently in Personal Tailor). The … (read more)

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This week in cinemas: ‘Canopy’ (Australia/Singapore)

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Justin

Australian/Singaporean co-production Canopy opened here in Australia yesterday, April 24.

Almost a decade in the making for writer-director Aaron Wilson and producer Katrina Fleming, it follows the story of an Australian fighter pilot (Khan Chittenden) shot down over Singapore in 1942, his struggle to survive and his bond with resistance fighter Seng (Mo Tzu-Yi). You can read Yee-Yin’s review for a more detailed take on the film.

Here’s the trailer:

Screening details are available at the film’s official site; … (read more)

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This week in cinemas: ‘That Demon Within’ (Hong Kong)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Justin

This week in Aussie cinemas we have the latest thriller from Hong Kong director Dante Lam (last year’s Unbeatable, The Viral Factor, Beast Cops).

It’s a psychologically fraught cop-vs-criminal number starring Daniel Wu and Nick Cheung — who’s just won best actor at the HK Film Awards for his role in Unbeatable, incidentally. This review from Maggie Lee at Variety suggests that it’s director Lam’s darkest work yet, which is definitely quite a call. (You don’t … (read more)

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GCFF 2014 on now!

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Deni

With the weather the way it’s been (warm and muggy when not raining) it’s not like you need an excuse to go to the beach, but if you do, the great Gold Coast Film Festival is one of the best. It kicks off tomorrow, and again the GCFF’s partnership with Supanova and their commitment to regional and cult film means that there’s some great Asian cinema to be had!

From China, the most recent rendition of that timeless classic The … (read more)

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This week in cinemas: ‘The Raid 2’

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Justin


Alright, so everyone who reads Heroic Cinema regularly knows this one is due out soon; we’ve posted trailers, given away double passes…. but this week’s the week.

Indonesian martial arts film The Raid 2: Berandal (Indonesian for “Thug”, according to Wikipedia) arrives in Australian cinemas this Friday, March 28, and it looks like it’ll make a lot of action cinema fans sit up and take notice.

Directed by Gareth Evans, it’s his follow-up to low-budget locked-building actioner The Raid… (read more)

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