Oxide Pang

High Forces movie review: Andy Lau fights hijackers in stupid Chinese aircraft thriller

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High Forces movie review: Andy Lau fights hijackers in stupid Chinese aircraft thriller

2/5 stars Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah single-handedly takes on a bunch of vicious hijackers during a commercial airline flight in the mainland Chinese production High Forces, a bizarrely conceived, if also intermittently entertaining, action thriller directed by Oxide Pang Chun. The melodramatic tone is set right from the off when we catch glimpses … Read more

How the Pang Brothers’ The Eye movies led Hong Kong cinema’s horror genre in the 2000s

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How the Pang Brothers’ The Eye movies led Hong Kong cinema’s horror genre in the 2000s

Directors Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang Fat, known professionally as the Pang Brothers, have had interesting careers even by the standards of Hong Kong’s perpetually fascinating film industry. The identical twins began their careers working behind the scenes in Hong Kong, but made it big internationally with Bangkok Dangerous, a gangster film they directed … Read more