In the wake of Bruce Lee’s death, there was popularity at its peak and savvy producers, high profile or not, started to exploit the image of him by casting other people looking semi to not similiar at all. Hence your Bruce Le’s, Li’s, Dragon Lee and so forth. When Golden Harvest decided to try and […]

From Hong Kong to Spain and back to Hong Kong and back in time again, for this episode we follow the three brothers (i.e. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao) as they take their martial arts action comedy formula to Spain and into a meal-van in Wheels On Meals. And we then transfer from […]

Well, well, well… we’ve reached episode 200 and thank you for listening and supporting the show! We came up with an innovative idea for the celebration: WE’RE GONNA REVIEW MOVIES!  With Kenny B and many of the co-hosts of the network, across 4 hours and several separate recordings you’ll essentially get all network shows in […]

The Dynasty Report is back, looking at sequels. Sequalized due to their quality or due to their box office? Paul Fox and Dr. Lam guides you through these two recent two’s. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. Music courtesy of Brian Kirby (http://briankirby.net) whose awesome […]

During this episode, we reivew another duo of Alan Tam flicks and see if we’re willing spokespersons for Team Tam this time around. They come in the form of Lau Kar-wing’s 1988 gangster actioner The Dragon Family starring everyone and Alan Tam. And in the second half we take a look at a movie that many […]

This time we review one of the most beloved three brothers movies. I.e. the team between Peking Opera school brothers Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao in their 1988 action-comedy Dragons Forever. And also from the same year, director Alex Law takes you inside the doors of the Peking Opera school the trio trained […]

A Jackie Chan review double bill focusing on the continually evolving nature to his action films where Indiana Jones style adventure to a degree take center stage in the two Armour of God films. The first almost cost Jackie Chan’s life. More on that with Kenny B and Eastern Film Fans’ Phil G. Contact the […]

We conclude Gambling Season with God of Gamblers 3 and God of Gamblers 3…..let that sink in for a moment. What that means is we conclude the Stephen Chow run as Do Sing, the Saint Of Gamblers, and talk of his time travel adventure back to Shanghai IN God Of Gamblers Part III – Back […]

Welcome to part 2 of our God of Gamblers series retrospective and after covering the Chow Yun-fat run of movies in the form of 1989’s God of Gamblers and 1994’s God of Gamblers’ Return, we turn from God to Saint and the Stephen Chow run. In 1990 Stephen Chow broke through as a comedy superstar […]

For this episode, we give Korea’s seemingly rare venture into fairy tale horror and fantasy in the form of Yim Pil-sung’s Hansel And Gretel from 2007 a look. A title brought to the UK through Terracotta Distribution so with Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid  is also Joey Leung of Terracotta. Running Times:  00m 00s – […]

We dive into the world of independent Korean cinema, perhaps its poster boy even as we take a look at Yang Ik-june’s hard hitting family drama Breathless from 2008.  A title brought to the UK through Terracotta Distribution so with Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid is also special guest Joey Leung of Terracotta. Running Times: […]

Welcome back to The Dynasty Report, this time tackling and discussing the 2014 high profile productions Kung Fu Jungle starring Donnie Yen and the latest movie featuring Wong Fei-Hung: Rise Of The Legend. No Jet Li this time around but a new Wong Fei-Hung so there’ll be talks of how this reboot fares. Hosted by […]

Welcome to this retrospective of part of the God Of Gamblers series, its sequels and spin off’s. Hugely popular real life occupation for Hong Kong people and transferred to the screen as well, by the man who arugably did it the best while also adhering to comedy and action tradition of the golden period of […]

Jackie Chan double bill-time. Diving deepier into the Police Story-series, cast & crew return another fireworks display of stunts, fights and on set injuries and for the third entry, things get quite enormously larger and Michelle Yeoh is added to the series in impactful fashion. With Kenny B & Tom K-W. Contact the show via […]

Part of the network crew gather for a relaxed, free for all roundtable centering around the participants bringing something Eastern and/or Western to the table. Donnie Yen is mentioned, former Superman, sexy Korean Christmas tales, Hallmark movies, cats and Japan flavoured… stuff. Kenny B, Paul Fox, Stewart Sutherland (Films And Swearing) and Paul Quinn (Hangul […]

Alan Tam double bill, people! Normally an actor I detest and for part of this episode I will continue doing that but no doubt, Tam-ster, Tam-boy, Tammi was part of a thriving Hong Kong cinema and put in various vehicles requring a lot out of him. Among other things action and for part of this […]

Three reports in and we’re still playing with the format, mixing and matching and certainly not setting any cut off point in terms of a movie being too old. Just have to be fairly new so for this episode, you’ll be hearing Paul Fox, Dr. David Lam and Kenny B talk The White Haired Witch […]

Podcast On Fire may focus on the known and the big guns out of Hong Kong cinema, classics or not, but no one’s demanding the programming to be strict or they’ll tune out so for this episode, based on the suggestion of our guest, we switch it up and head to part of the Hollywood […]

The Dynasty Report this time pairs up Kenny B, Paul Fox and Dr. David Lam for a look at recent Hong Kong cinema discussed by those who actually watches it (this does not include Kenny B). Dante Lam’s That Demon Within (starring Daniel Wu and Nick Cheung) as well as Cheung’s directorial debut Hungry Ghost […]

One’s a prequel to a groundbreaking heroic bloodshed movie, one represents a detour from doing acrobatics and fighting alongside his peking opera brothers. One is Tsui Hark’s A Better Tomorrow 3 and the other is Alfred Cheung’s On The Run, starring Yuen Biao. With Kenny B and Tom K-W. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire […]