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...Hong Kong movie love! Some day there ought to be a retrospective of the colony?s best romantic movies of the 80s and 90s: ?An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty,? ?Shanghai Blues,? ?Rouge,? ?Last Romance,? ?A Fishy Story,? ?The Bride With White Hair,? ?Red Rose White Rose,? ?Comrades: Almost a Love Story,? ?Fly Me to Polaris? and three or four moody-broodies from Kar-wai. But Hong Kong cinema didn?t earn its international cachet by dealing in delicate feelings and poignant renunciation. It got there with sex and violence, action and atrocity, deftly orchestrated mayhem - exactly the elements that...
...Years of Deliciously Evil Hong Kong Cinema.? The bestial festival, which runs through Thursday the 14th, assembles films famous (Samo Hung?s ?Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind,? Ricky Lau?s ?Mr. Vampire?), infamous (?The Untold Story,? ?Dr. Lamb?) and unfamous (?Devil Fetus,? ?Bio Zombie?) from the 80s...
...Then, in 1985, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved dronabinol, an oral form of synthetic THC, to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea. Many doctors believed dronabinol, marketed as Marinol, could provide the benefits of the plant without the impurities. By the mid-'80s, the availability of Marinol and the escalating drug war had killed the state research programs. But Marinol turned out to have shortcomings. Because it enters the blood through the stomach, it doesn't work as fast as smoked marijuana. Because it is essentially pure THC, its users can get too high. "Marinol does tend to knock people...
...carries himself like a bad guy, and Sutherland--known for playing heavies in movies like Stand By Me and The Lost Boys--plays him cold yet fiery, like a quart of vodka from the freezer. But 24 had to reintroduce Sutherland to an audience that remembered him as an '80s teen star who a decade later was better known for having been dumped by Julia Roberts. In the late '90s he even dropped out of acting to compete on the professional rodeo circuit (he had learned roping for 1994's The Cowboy Way). "I took two years off," he says...
Most people remember early ’80s teen cinema as the domain of John Hughes and Molly Ringwald. A happy few, however, remember Michael J. Fox dressed up like a cross between Chewbacca and Bill Walton (circa 1977) throwing down nasty dunks, chomping beers and doing backflips on top of moving vehicles. When Teen Wolf was released in 1985, the world was blessed with one of the most memorably cheesy and obscenely hilarious flicks of the modern age. This tale of a talentless high school point guard who escapes mediocrity when his latent werewolf genes spring into action spawned...