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Definitely among the late Ringo Lam’s best films, “City on Fire” is one of the most iconic Hong Kong films of all time, although its international fame came after Tarantino used several elements (including the Mexican standoff) in “Reservoir Dogs”. Furthermore, the film was one of the titles that propelled Chow Yun Fat’s career towards stardom while it netted him the Best Actor and Lam the Best Director prizes at the 1988 Hong Kong Film Awards.

“City on Fire” screened at Udine Far East Film Festival

After one of his undercover cops is brutally stabbed to death, Inspector Lau orders his other “mole”, Ko Chow, to continue the deceased’s investigation into a jewelry robbing gang. Ko Chow is reluctant, since him being undercover has led to a number of issues, both in his line of work, and in his personal life, where his girlfriend, Hung, is fed up...

The Golden Horse Awards were held last night. They're often thought of as the Chinese Oscars because the tradition goes back the furthest and honors a wide pool of Chinese language films from multiple countries (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, etcetera). Though neither Monga, Taiwan's submission for Oscar's Foreign Language Film competition, nor Aftershock (China's submission), were nominated for Best Picture they both had multiple nominations .

Monga, a popular youth crime drama we've mentioned before, won Best Actor for 28 year old Ethan Ruan (left), who amusingly brought a cardboard cutout of his  co-star who was not nominated. And yes he brought the cutout with him onstage when he won. He said...

Woo! Sorry, I brought my buddy along. [mimicing his co-star] 'Hi everyone. I'm Mark Chao'...to big laughs from the crowd.

Here's the Best Actor presentation. The clips begin at 2:25 after Li BingBing and Tony Leung Ka Fai (yes,...