This week we have spoiler-free reviews of John Woo’s bullet-ballet Hard Boiled and Netflix’s Australian reality show Instant Hotel. Then Indy sneakily previews next week’s watch; Before Sunrise and the entire Before Trilogy!
Hard-Boiled teahouse shootout: https://youtu.be/kjbibHyDZkE
Hard-Boiled Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMPzcGQJzA&ab_channel=TueNguyen
Instant Hotel Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL3mbpmTAFo&ab_channel=What%27sonNetflix
Before Sunrise Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MUcuqbGTxc&ab_channel=MovieclipsClassicTrailers
Hard Boiled (Chinese: 辣手神探)[2] is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by John Woo and written by Barry Wong. The film stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Alan, an undercover cop, and Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong, a leader of the criminal triads.
Hard Boiled was John Woo's last Hong Kong film before his transition to Hollywood. After making films that glamorized gangsters (and receiving criticism for doing so), Woo wanted to make a Dirty Harry styled film to glamorize the police. After the death of screenwriter Barry Wong, the film's screenplay underwent constant changes during filming. New characters such as Mad Dog and Mr. Woo were introduced, while the original plotline of a baby-poisoning psychopath was cut.
Instant Hotel is an Australian reality television series which began airing on the Seven Network on 7 November 2017.[1] The series follows homeowners who have transformed their homes into hotels and are individually judged by each other to receive the highest scores with the winner to win an ultimate prize.
The Before trilogy consists of three films directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as lovers Jesse and Céline at three different parts of their lives. The trilogy consists of the films Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Filmed and set at nine-year intervals, each film takes place over the course of a few hours. A short sequence in the animated anthology film Waking Life also features the characters.
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