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  Eureka Entertainment delivers three times the Sammo with TRIPLE THREAT: THREE FILMS WITH SAMMO HUNG, featuring three lesser-known Golden Harvest films from one of the icons of Hong Kong action cinema. In THE MANCHU BOXER (1974), Sammo has the smallest role of the three films on the set, as a thug hired by a Kung Fu master with poor sportsmanship ideals, who hires Mr. Hung and another thug to take out contestants in a rural martial arts tournament. Old-school Kung Fu with some nice choreography by Sammo. In PAPER MARRIAGE (1988), Sammo co-stars with Maggie Cheung as an average Hong Kong guy, living in the U.S. (really Canada), who agrees to a sham Green Card marriage with Maggie in order to make some money that will allow him to avoid a beating by debt collectors and not have to fall back on his skills as an underground kickboxer. Pleasant mismatched romantic comedy that saves the majority of its action for a wild last 10 minutes, set in a giant mall with a pirate ship and waters...

  Eureka Entertainment brings to Blu-ray a little-discussed 80s Hong Kong survival horror film, THE ISLAND (1985), wherein a group of college students and their professor plan a 3 hour tour of a remote island for sight-seeing, and wind up the prey of a demented family with sinister intentions. Think HILLS HAVE EYES and MOTHER'S DAY, Hong Kong style. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4hEdrSK (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

Eureka Entertainment brings Jean Epstein's 1929 silent surreal drama FINIS TERRAE to Blu-ray in a razor-sharp transfer of this "Men Vs. Nature (and the Nature Of Man)" tale, which brings to mind Robert Eggers' THE LIGHTHOUSE in its atmosphere, photography, and rising tension of workers in an isolated location. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4mswsZf (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Eureka Entertainment brings the 80s Hong Kong heroic bloodshed action melodrama FLAMING BROTHERS (1986) to Blu-ray in a fantastic transfer, bringing to light an underseen gem in the Hong Kong action filmography, starring Chow-Yun Fat and Alan Tang. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4psu8Ek (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  More martial arts mayhem from Eureka Entertainment with THE SWORD (1980), involving warring blade masters battling to be the best, with the prized being the titular cursed slicer! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/49xV7GN (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Eureka Entertainment brings Angela Mao's final film for Golden Harvest to Blu-ray, the ass-kicking, face-fisting, scorpion-tossing BROKEN OATH (1977), a Hong Kong remake of Japan's LADY SNOWBLOOD, in which Mao seeks revenge on those who brought her parents to a dark fate. Mao is outstanding in acting and action here, the transfer looks great, and a LOT of scorpions are flung. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4g80tuM (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Eureka Entertainment brings 1983's martial arts soccer (sorry, FOOTBALL) film THE CHAMPIONS to Blu-ray in a gorgeous transfer with fun extras. When country bumpkin with fantastic foot-focused goose egg collecting skills applies that ferocity to the footie field, he incurs the ire of fellow footballer Dick Wei, team superstar, who happens to be in the pocket of mobsters. Fast and funny football fu in what undoubtedly had to have been an inspiration for the later SHAOLIN SOCCER. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4etaulz (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

Eureka Entertainment brings the rarely-seen Jimmy Wang Yu action thriller A MAN CALLED TIGER (1973) to Blu-ray, looking great and loaded with extras. Originally set to be the third collaboration with director Lo Wei and star Bruce Lee, this film follows a street brawler (Wang Yu) working his way up the ladder of a Yakuza gang in Japan to find out the truth about his father's murder. Some fantastic fights and period trappings, and more musical numbers than you'd expect. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/47JuoX7 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming September 10th-24th, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROWS Double Feature on 4K UHD from VCI (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/4cXziAy   TATTOOED FOR LIFE (1965), on Blu-Ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/47hjtU3   VIVA LA MUERTE (1971), on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/4cQo5BQ   TWO TAOIST TALES, on Blu-ray from Eureka! Entertainment (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/3ThEIiN   THE GOLDEN LOTUS (1974), on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/3AJIUS0   MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE (2022), on Blu-ray from MVD Visual (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/3ZtPVRx   THE PRIMEVALS (2023), on Blu-ray from Full Moon Pictures (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/3MtnZp7   Reviews coming soon!  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchas...

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming August 27th-September 24th, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing): DOOR-TO-DOOR MANIAC (1961)/THE RIGHT HAND OF THE DEVIL (1963) on Blu-ray from Film Masters (Street Date: 8/27/24):  https://amzn.to/3X90HuE   A MAN ON HIS KNEES (1979), on Blu-Ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/4fOcJ3Q   TOKIJIRO: LONE YAKUZA (1966), on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 8/27/24): https://amzn.to/3SV2SiT   TERROR FIRMA (2023), on Blu-ray from Dark Arts Entertainment (Street Date: 8/27/24): https://amzn.to/4cqwXhr   A MAN CALLED TIGER (1973), on Blu-ray from Eureka! Entertainment (Street Date: 8/27/24): https://amzn.to/4doJhjt   Reviews coming soon!  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Yuen Woo Ping directs, choreographs, and co-stars in THE MIRACLE FIGHTERS (1982), a totally bonkers Hong Kong supernatural martial arts comedy with sequences that must be seen to be disbelieved. Available on a gorgeous-looking Blu-ray with fun supplements from Eureka Entertainment. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4g6opz5 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Eureka Entertainment brings the Hong Kong action/trickster drama THE DOUBLE CROSSERS (1976) to Blu-ray, looking great and filled with enlightening extras. What do you do when criminal baddies kill your father? Get together with an old pal and work your way up the mob pagoda with your fits, wits, and confidence schemes! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3WSQ5i2 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  I've long been curious about the films one-and-done James Bond actor George Lazenby did in Hong Kong in the early-mid 1970s, so I was thrilled to get the new Eureka Entertainment Blu-ray of A QUEEN'S RANSOM (1976), his final film made in that country. More a heist/thriller than a martial arts film, it features Lazenby as an IRA agent assembling a gang of criminals and assassins to take out Queen Elizabeth (and not on a date) during a royal visit to Hong Kong. More in line with BLACK SUNDAY than ENTER THE DRAGON, though it does co-star Angela Mao and Bolo Yeung from that Bruce Lee classic, along with Jimmy Wang Yu and, unbeknownst to her, Queen Elizabeth II! Gorgeous transfer and some fun extras make it worth a pick-up, even if it's less wall-to-wall action and more plotting than you might expect. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4aSTP8q (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  One of the initial pair of US releases from longtime UK boutique Blu-ray label Eureka Entertainment, the silent Universal horror classic THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) is now available, part of the Masters Of Cinema line. Crisp transfer with original color tinting and a new recording of the original score that accompanied the film theatrically, this nicely shot spooker is given several scholarly extras, and nicely packaged. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/44fGDc9 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here: