East Screen / West Screen #10: Blu-Plate Special
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This week Kevin and I are joined by www.lovehkfilm.com founder Ross Chen, who talks with us about his site, Ekin Cheng, and the growing market of Blu-ray discs for Asian movies. Amongst all of that we also discuss some of the latest in news and film reviews.
NEWS:
Hong Kong and The Golden Horse (Hollywood Reporter)
Jackie Chan in Korean Movie (Hollywood Reporter)
Paranormal Activity scares up bigtime (Reuters)
Director Mike Nichols receives AFI lifetime achievement award (Hollywood Reporter)
EAST SCREEN:
Split Second Murders (Hong Kong 2009)
WEST SCREEN:
District 9 (US/New Zealand 2009)
TOPIC:
Asian cinema and Blu-ray
FLYING BUDDHA (賣飛佛):
BLU-Ray pick Red Cliff 1&2 (Hong Kong/China 2009)
BLU-Ray pick The Good, The Bad, and the Weird (Korea 2009)
Running Time (01:16:15)
Next week you guys must talk about the new trailer for Future X-Cops. I was shocked. Someone compared it to a live action verion of Capcom’s Mega Man.