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Loved this. Someone needs to rescue it and bring it to Blu-ray/DVD.

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For a movie actually shot in 3D, this was so flat. It looked post-converted, as there wasn’t the usual depth to faces that I love to see in 3D movies. So I watched the “shooting in 3D” featurette and immediately it looks like actual 3D. Weird, but then the director goes on the explain how much he loved tweaking the 3D and the depth of the images so apparently the flatness in the majority of the movie was by design. I can see why they didn’t bother to shoot the sequel in 3D. What’s the point when you just make it look flat in post?

This is one of those movies that feels made specifically for me. I grew up watching a lot of '80s made-for-TV mysteries, so this was a hoot. Esther Rolle was great. This was apparently a TV pilot originally, and I would watch 100 episodes of this without question.

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This has the same Chinese title as Pom Pom, except they added "The Sequel" to the end. I think that explains why some of the humor is of the "Lucky Stars" variety. There are actual Pom Pom sequels with those actors, but Rosa is a classic, HK spiritual sequel where new characters inhabit a familiar plot.

Not a great movie, but it's fun enough if you like this era of HK comedy. And that's how you have to approach it, as a comedy with action sprinkles.

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A list of movies where someone says "My eyes!"

• Wishmaster
• Treasure of the Four Crowns
• Eyes of the Werewolf

In order of most recently seen (Dec-Jan)

• Malcolm X
• Black Tight Killers
• Eaten Alive
• sex, lies, and videotape
• The Invisible Ray
• Huh?
• The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• Keep Rolling
• Planet of the Vampires

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Pursuit of Vengeance
• Clans of Intrigue
• The Sentimental Swordsman
• Executioners from Shaolin
• The Battle Wizard
• Judgement of an Assassin
• Jade Tiger
• The Naval Commandos
• Chinatown Kid
• Death Duel

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Over the last few months, I worked my way through all of Cronenberg's films, most of which I had never seen. Here's where they fell for me.

1. Videodrome
2. eXistenZ
3. The Fly
4. The Brood
5. Crimes of the Future
6. Eastern Promises
7. Spider
8. A History of Violence
9. Dead Ringers
10. Fast Company

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

List from www.mentalfloss.com/article/567952/martin-scorsese-favorite-movies-list

Someone probably already made this, but I'm too lazy to search and it's fun to make a list.

• The Infernal Cakewalk
• Secrets of the Soul
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Nosferatu
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Metropolis
• Napoleon
• The Power and the Glory
• It Happened One Night
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

...plus 115 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Finally trying to watch all of Tsui Hark's films. Ranking them as I go.

1. Peking Opera Blues
2. Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
3. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
4. Once Upon a Time in China
5. A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
6. Once Upon a Time in China II
7. Working Class
8. The Blade
9. Time and Tide
10. Shanghai Blues

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
• Phenomena
• Romancing in Thin Air
• Penitentiary
• The Mermaid
• Blind Detective
• Cronos
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• The Proud Youth
• Flesh and Bullets

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm finally digging into Stephen Chow's movies, and really enjoying them. Ranking them here as I watch 'em.

• Flirting Scholar
• Tricky Brains
• All's Well, Ends Well
• Out of the Dark
• King of Beggars
• God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
• God of Gamblers II
• All for the Winner
• Fight Back to School
• Royal Tramp

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Magic Blade
• Boxer Rebellion
• Challenge of the Masters
• The Shaolin Avengers
• Killer Clans
• Black Magic 2
• 7-Man Army
• The Condemned
• Big Bad Sis
• Killers on Wheels

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Chang Cheh was one of Hong Kong's most influential and prolific filmmakers. He's a favorite of mine, so here's as close as I can come to ranking his massive filmography. Many of the choices could probably be argued up or down, as I absolutely adore a good many of these.

To be updated as I see more/re-watch stuff. Also I've seen a few more than this (like Five Element Ninjas and Five Venoms), but I haven't seen them in so long I have no idea where to rank them.

• The Water Margin
• Shaolin Martial Arts
• Heroes Two
• The Duel
• Vengeance!
• All Men Are Brothers
• The New One-Armed Swordsman
• The One-Armed Swordsman
• The Invincible Fist
• Disciples of Shaolin

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I love Larry Cohen's style, and one of these days I'm going to see all of his movies. Until then, I will rank the ones I've seen in anticipation of this wondrous day.

• The Stuff
• Q
• Bone
• Black Caesar
• It's Alive
• God Told Me To
• The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
• Pick Me Up
• Hell Up In Harlem
• A Return to Salem's Lot

In of my enjoyment, mostly.

• New Police Story
• The Myth
• Rob-B-Hood
• The Accidental Spy
• The Tuxedo
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Shinjuku Incident
• The Forbidden Kingdom
• Rush Hour 2
• Shanghai Noon

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Chungking Express
• In the Mood for Love
• The Grandmaster
• Ashes of Time
• Fallen Angels
• 2046
• Days of Being Wild
• Happy Together
• The Hand
• As Tears Go By

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Happy Together
• Brokeback Mountain
• Best in Show
• The Kids Are All Right
• Prick Up Your Ears
• The Master
• My Brother the Devil
• Heavenly Creatures
• The Brotherhood
• The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks

• City Hunter
• Under Siege
• The African Queen
• Jaws
• Uninvited
• Summer Rental
• Apocalypse Now
• Waterworld
• Captain Blood
• Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1. All Men Are Brothers
2. Disciples of Shaolin
3. The Super Inframan
4. The Fantastic Magic Baby
5. The Golden Lion
6. The Spiritual Boxer
7. The Flying Guillotine
8. Lady of the Law
9. The Four Assassins
10. The Young Rebel

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Armour of God
• Ronin
• Bullitt
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Vanishing Point
• The Blues Brothers
• The French Connection
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• The Accidental Spy

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Alien
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Abyss
• Dancer in the Dark
• The Color Purple
• Come Drink with Me
• Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
• The Black Tavern
• Jackie Brown

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Thing
• The Blob
• Dragon Inn
• Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• 13 Assassins
• A Fistful of Dollars
• The Fly
• Invaders from Mars
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Evil Dead
• Bad Taste
• Citizen Kane
• Hellraiser
• Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
• The Chinese Boxer
• Night of the Living Dead
• The Babadook
• Duel to the Death
• Mad Max

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One of my favorite filmmakers, Sammo Hung's work is woefully underrated outside of Hong Kong. One of the most influential and important figures in the Hong Kong industry, action cinema would not be the same without him.

I've now seen all of his directorial work and my current rankings are below. To be updated when I re-watch stuff, naturally.

It should also be noted that the rankings are super close and just about arbitrary on so many of these. I love pretty much all of these quite deeply, so it's hard to say which is better.

• Wheels on Meals
• Knockabout
• The Victim
• Pedicab Driver
• Eastern Condors
• Warriors Two
• The Prodigal Son
• Heart of Dragon
• Millionaires' Express
• Encounters of the Spooky Kind

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Drunken Master II
2. Operation Condor
3. Crime Story
4. City Hunter
5. Rumble in the Bronx
6. Twin Dragons
7. Police Story 3: Super Cop
8. Who Am I?
9. Mr. Nice Guy
10. Police Story 4: First Strike

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A more expansive version of my Top 10 list here: www.silveremulsion.com/2017/01/13/top-10-film-discoveries-of-2016/

The top ten are ordered, the rest are sorta grouped by director/genre.

1. Shaolin Martial Arts
2. Knockabout
3. eXistenZ
4. Neon Maniacs
5. The Pirate
6. Cut-Throats Nine
7. Dead & Buried
8. Magnificent Warriors
9. The Grandmaster
10. Navajo Joe

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Shaolin Martial Arts
2. Heroes Two
3. The Savage Five
4. Five Shaolin Masters
5. Men from the Monastery
6. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
7. The Bod Squad
8. Friends
9. The Drug Addicts
10. The Well of Doom

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm taking the ABC Horror Challenge, as introduced to me by my friend Matt (his challenge list), who got it from Cropsy (his challenge list).

Basically, just watch a horror movie that begins with each letter of the alphabet. At least one a week, moving sequentially through the letters.

I'm going to do all movies I've never seen, and because I'm at the "I could probably open a small video store" level of collecting, I'm almost positive I can do it all with movies I've bought and haven't watched yet.

You should do it too! C'mon everybody's doing it! Don't you wanna be cool?

• Abracadabra
• Bloody Birthday
• A Cat in the Brain
• Deadly Eyes
• Evilspeak
• Frightmare
• Ghosthouse
• Headhunter
• The Imp
• Jaws of Satan

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Enchanted Chamber
2. The Sword of Swords
3. The Bells of Death
4. Golden Swallow
5. Killer Darts
6. That Fiery Girl
7. The Fastest Sword
8. Death Valley
9. The Jade Raksha
10. The Silver Fox

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blood Brothers
2. The Pirate
3. Heroes of Sung
4. Payment In Blood
5. The Generation Gap
6. Iron Bodyguard
7. The Kiss of Death
8. The Master of Kung Fu
9. River Of Fury
10. Na Cha and the Seven Devils

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Water Margin
2. Five Fingers of Death
3. Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
4. The 14 Amazons
5. The Black Tavern
6. The Boxer from Shantung
7. The Devil's Mirror
8. Pursuit
9. The Black Enforcer
10. The Killer

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Vengeance!
2. Brothers Five
3. The Heroic Ones
4. The Chinese Boxer
5. The Twelve Gold Medallions
6. The Iron Buddha
7. The Winged Tiger
8. The Secret of the Dirk
9. The Wandering Swordsman
10. The Singing Killer

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Had the idea to make ranked lists of the years I've completed in my chronological Shaw Brothers review series. This one combines '65 and '66 because there were only 5 movies between the two years.

1. Come Drink with Me
2. The Twin Swords
3. The Magnificent Trio
4. Temple of the Red Lotus
5. The Knight of Knights

1. The One-Armed Swordsman
2. The Assassin
3. Rape of the Sword
4. The Sword and the Lute
5. The Thundering Sword
6. The Silent Swordsman
7. That Man in Chang-An
8. The Trail of the Broken Blade
9. King Cat

1. The Invincible Fist
2. Killers Five
3. Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
4. Have Sword, Will Travel
5. The Golden Sword
6. Purple Darts
7. The Singing Thief
8. The Flying Dagger
9. Raw Courage
10. Dragon Swamp

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Duel
2. The New One-Armed Swordsman
3. The Swift Knight
4. Lady with a Sword
5. King Eagle
6. Duel for Gold
7. The Deadly Duo
8. The Long Chase
9. The Oath of Death
10. The Lady Hermit

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is the expanded version, including all of Jackie's '80s films, of my Top 10 list here:
www.silveremulsion.com/2016/03/11/top-10-1980s-jackie-chan-films/

1. Armour of God
2. Wheels on Meals
3. Police Story
4. Dragons Forever
5. Project A Part II
6. Project A
7. The Young Master
8. Miracles: The Canton Godfather
9. Police Story 2
10. Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A more expansive version of my Top 10 list here:
www.silveremulsion.com/2016/01/28/top-10-film-discoveries-of-2015/

The top ten are ordered, the rest are sorta grouped by director/genre.

• Videodrome
• The Gate
• A Touch of Zen
• BMX Bandits
• Black Sunday
• Society
• Furious
• Man
• Nightmare City
• Q

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I watched during my 6th annual month-long gorge of horror movies.

• Nightmare Factory
• Black Sunday
• Blood and Black Lace
• Kill, Baby... Kill!
• A Bay of Blood
• Rabid
• The Brood
• The Dead Zone
• Videodrome
• Grotesque

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I watched during my month-long gorge of horror movies. I usually just watch new-to-me stuff, but this year I tried to cram in as many old favorites as I could (which didn't really amount to more than a couple :( ).

Like the last two years, I didn't have any specific themes in mind, but a few emerged:
3 Shaw Brothers films
3 Blaxploitation films
3 Lucio Fulci films
The original Body Snatchers and the '70s remake

This is the 5th year I've done this, and it only gets more fun.

• Hex
• Hex vs. Witchcraft
• Hex After Hex
• The Host
• Sugar Hill
• Ganja & Hess
• The House on Skull Mountain
• City of the Living Dead
• The Beyond
• The House by the Cemetery

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The top ten are ordered, the rest are just sorta lumped together. They are all great watches... for various reasons.

• Nightbreed
• Bastard Swordsman
• Night of the Creeps
• Dragon Inn
• Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
• Zarkorr! The Invader
• Oldboy
• The 14 Amazons

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Yesterday I put up a list of my 10 favorite Shaw films, but there’s too many great Shaw films to just leave it at that. So I came up with this list, offering up another 10 great films! This one’s more for the seasoned Shaw fan than it is for the newcomer, but who am I to say that you have to start with the genre’s so-called favorites? Start wherever you like!

As with the previous list: Before you send me hate mail and “Why isn’t so-and-so movie on the list?” comments, I haven’t seen a lot of the Shaw Brothers films past 1972 (the year I’ve most recently finished in my chronological series), so that’s why this list steers toward the early years of their color martial arts output. But I imagine a good many fans are the opposite of me and haven’t seen a lot of the early films, so I hope this list is a help. In any case, I’m not trying to say these are the best or anything, just my favorites.

List on my website with some quick thoughts on each film:
www.silveremulsion.com/2015/02/20/chinese-new-year-special-my-top-10-under-the-radar-shaw-brothers-films-as-of-feb-2015/

• Killers Five
• The Casino
• Duel for Gold
• The Twelve Gold Medallions
• The Black Enforcer
• Lady with a Sword
• The Devil's Mirror
• The Invincible Fist
• Pursuit
• The Black Tavern

As I work my way through the Shaw films, I thought a list like this would provide me an interesting picture to look back on later. It's also provides a few good suggestions for newcomers to the Shaw films.

Before you send me hate mail and “Why isn’t so-and-so movie on the list?” comments, I haven’t seen tons of the great Shaw Brothers classics that I’m sure will eventually vie for a place on this list when I do see them. That’s part of the reason I started my chronological series, to eventually see them all. I’m also not trying to say these are the best or anything, just my favorites.

List on my website with some quick thoughts on each film:
www.silveremulsion.com/2015/02/19/chinese-new-year-special-my-top-10-favorite-shaw-brothers-films-as-of-feb-2015/

• The Super Inframan
• The New One-Armed Swordsman
• Bastard Swordsman
• The Duel
• The Avenging Eagle
• Five Element Ninjas
• Bewitched
• Shaolin Intruders
• The Water Margin
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

All the movies I watched during my month-long gorge of horror movies in 2013. 4th year running of doing this. Another year without any solid themes.

• Evil Dead
• ParaNorman
• The Dead Come Home
• The Wicker Man
• Unlucky Charms
• The Blob
• Mama
• House
• Piranha
• Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I watched during my month-long gorge of horror movies in 2012. This was the 3rd year I did this. This year I just kinda watched whatever I wanted to, without any real themes.

• Troll Hunter
• Psychos in Love
• Tales from the Hood
• Near Dark
• Seeding of a Ghost
• The Brides of Dracula
• Father's Day
• Gong Tau
• Stitches
• Sisters

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I watched during my month-long gorge of horror movies in 2011. This was the 2nd year I did this. This year my focus was finally seeing some Hammer Horror, Classic Japanese Horror, Full Moon, and a few Masters of Horror.

• Vampire Journals
• The Ghost of Yotsuya
• The Curse of Frankenstein
• Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
• Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm
• Jigoku
• Dracula
• Dreams in the Witch House
• Dance of the Dead
• Parasite

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I watched during my month-long gorge of horror movies in 2010. This was the first year I did this, and I focused on filling in some Argento blind spots, Empire/Full Moon and Shaw Brothers Horror.

• Transmutations
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Rawhead Rex
• Troll
• The Cat o' Nine Tails
• Troll 2
• Flowers in the Attic
• Dreamaniac
• Deep Red
• TerrorVision

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Just a list of my favorites, not intended to represent "the best" or anything. Oh, and I probably forgot something.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Yojimbo
4. Psycho
5. The Wild Bunch
6. Dragon Inn
7. Underworld U.S.A.
8. The One-Armed Swordsman
9. Night of the Living Dead
10. True Grit

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The top ten are ordered, the rest are just sorta lumped together. They are all great watches... for various reasons.

1. The Water Margin
2. Miami Connection
3. Underworld U.S.A.
4. Battle Royale
5. Sansho the Bailiff
6. Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin
7. Kull the Conqueror
8. Superman
9. Piranha
10. Cinderella

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The 12 films in my Blind Spot series for 2014! Can't wait!

The list on my website: http://www.silveremulsion.com/2013/12/31/blind-spot-series-2014/

• Oldboy
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Who's That Knocking at My Door
• Dragon Inn
• Five Easy Pieces
• Persona
• The Great Silence
• Tell Your Children
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Night of the Creeps

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

As the title says, this is my attempt to rank the films of Sam Fuller. I also have a list of my favorite Sam Fuller films on Letterboxd, in an effort to try and remove any emotions from this version of the list and just focus on filmmaking quality.

1. The Big Red One
2. The Naked Kiss
3. Underworld U.S.A.
4. The Steel Helmet
5. Park Row
6. White Dog
7. Shock Corridor
8. Pickup on South Street
9. Run of the Arrow
10. Fixed Bayonets!

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

As the title says, my favorite Sam Fuller film in my order of preference. I also have a version of this on my website here, if you're looking for reasons why.

1. Underworld U.S.A.
2. The Big Red One
3. White Dog
4. The Steel Helmet
5. The Naked Kiss
6. The Crimson Kimono
7. Shock Corridor
8. Fixed Bayonets!
9. Pickup on South Street
10. Verboten!

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This list is an extension of my Top 5 list on Silver Emulsion, available here.

1. Drunken Master
2. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
3. Fearless Hyena
4. Shaolin Wooden Men
5. Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin
6. Killer Meteors
7. Dragon Fist
8. Hand of Death
9. New Fist of Fury
10. Magnificent Bodyguards

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.