Heroic-cinema - heroic-cinema.com - Heroic Cinema
General Information:
Latest News:
A Werewolf Boy (2012) 25 Aug 2013 | 01:10 pm
This year’s opening film for the Korean Film Festival in Australia, which I caught at the sold-out KOFFIA opening night in Sydney, is Jo Sung-hee’s A Werewolf Boy. It’s a great choice for an opening f...
Giveaway: 5-Film Passes to ‘Action, Hong Kong Style’ (Brisbane) 22 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
Not content with just putting on an amazing program of Hong Kong action classics (see our post and their website), the folks at GOMA have been kind enough to give us three five-film passes to give awa...
Action, Hong Kong Style at GOMA (Brisbane, 6 Sep to 8 Nov) 19 Aug 2013 | 01:48 pm
If you go to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and you ask it for the earliest version of Heroic Cinema they have on file (Nov 3, 1999), you’ll find that we used to have a tagline on the front p...
This week in cinemas: ‘Unbeatable’ (HK/China) 19 Aug 2013 | 07:55 am
Hitting (and kicking, and throwing…) Australian cinemas this week is HK/Chinese mixed martial arts film Unbeatable, from director Dante Lam (Beast Cops, Fire of Conscience, The Viral Factor). It’s an ...
Architecture 101 (2012) 18 Aug 2013 | 11:02 am
The popular Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) is already underway in Brisbane, with Sydney and Melbourne soon to follow. So far already, our Editor has reviewed the period drama Masquerade, w...
OzAsia Festival 2013 (Adelaide, 13-29 Sep) 16 Aug 2013 | 01:32 pm
Keeping pace with the other Asian cinema events happening in the eastern states is this year’s solid film line-up from the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide, with 21 films showing this year between 13 and 2...
Masquerade (2012) 14 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
Superstar Lee Byung-hun (JSA, A Bittersweet Life, I Saw the Devil) gets to play the leading role twice over in Masquerade, a lavish South Korean costume drama set during the turbulent rule of King Gwa...
The Tower (2012) 13 Aug 2013 | 04:59 pm
The Tower is South Korea’s first attempt at a full-on disaster movie, and overall it’s pretty good but does bear a strong resemblance to the Hollywood pic The Towering Inferno, widely seen as the peak...
The Berlin File (2013) 12 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Who knew? North Korea, despite being the diplomatic Bogeyman of the western world still maintains an embassy in Berlin. Admittedly, now that I’ve looked it up on Wikipedia, it does seem less impress...
Reel Anime 2013 dates announced 12 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
The news came in on the wire today that our anime-loving friends at Madman have announced the final dates for this year’s Reel Anime 2013 festival, where they intend to showcase brand-spanking-new ani...
