Since the last update I’ve continued to add a bunch of new reviews to the subscription only side of The Chinese Cinema: A Serious Shock! Yes, Madam!, Detective Chinatown 3, It’s a Drink! It’s a Bomb!, Gorgeous, So Close, Monkey Kung Fu, The Millionaires’ Express, Hero (1997), The Tiger on the Beat Series, The Master (1992), My Father is a Hero, The Tai Chi Master, and The Princess. At InReview Online I have a review of one of Bae Doona’s Cannes films, Next Sohee, while I Seattle Screen Scene I reviewed the Korean action flick The Killer. I also made a couple of trips up to the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, where I introduced the first two of three parts of a series I programmed there on Hong Kong cinema in the first decade after the Handover, double features of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kung Fu Hustle, and Election and Election 2. We’ve got one more show coming up in a few weeks, Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong.

These are the movies I’ve watched or rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

Donald’s Double Trouble (Jack King) – 32, 1946
Knights Must Fall (Friz Freleng) – 31, 1949
Donald in Mathmagic Land (Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador, Les Clark, Wolfgang Reitherman) – 16, 1959
The Parent Trap (David Swift) – 27, 1961
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones) – 1, 1975

The Shaolin Plot (Huang Feng) – 22, 1977
Monkey Kung Fu (John Law Ma) – 44, 1979
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer) – 8, 1982
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen) – 12, 1984
It’s a Drink! It’s a Bomb! (David Chung) – 29, 1985

The Millionaires’ Express (Sammo Hung) – 18, 1986
Top Gun (Tony Scott) – 22, 1986
Spaceballs (Mel Brooks) – 52, 1987
Tiger on the Beat (Lau Kar-leung) – 23, 1988

Miami Blues (George Armitage) – 24, 1990
Tiger on the Beat 2 (Lau Kar-leung) – 54, 1990
Martial Law (Steve Cohen) – 81, 1990
Martial Law II: Undercover (Kurt Anderson) – 75, 1991

The Master (Tsui Hark) – 56, 1992
Rage and Honor (Terence H. Winkless) – 64, 1992
The Tai Chi Master (Yuen Woo-ping) – 12, 1993
A Serious Shock! Yes, Madam! (Albert Lai) – 85, 1993
My Father is a Hero (Corey Yuen) – 60, 1995

Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma) – 20, 1996
Hero (Corey Yuen) – 63, 1997
Gorgeous (Vincent Kok) – 42, 1999
Mission: Impossible II (John Woo) – 25, 2000
So Close (Corey Yuen) – 21, 2002

Election (Johnnie To) – 9, 2005
Election 2 (Johnnie To) – 8, 2006
Mission: Impossible III (JJ Abrams) – 53, 2006
Stardust (Matthew Vaughn) – 52, 2007

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird) – 30, 2011
Thor (Kenneth Branagh) – 42, 2011
Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore) – 10, 2012
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 98, 2014
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) – 89, 2015

Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast) – 73, 2018
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie) – 131, 2018
Nothing Serious (Jeong Ga-young) – 21, 2021
Sycorax (Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro) – 30, 2021

Shin Ultraman (Higuchi Shinji) – 1, 2022
Section 1 (Jon Bois) – 5, 2022
Hustle (Jeremiah Zagar) – 7, 2022
Ambulance (Michael Bay) – 8, 2022

The Northman (Robert Eggers) – 9, 2022
Next Sohee (July Jung) – 10, 2022
The Princess (Le-Van Kiet) – 12, 2022
The Killer (Choi Jaehoon) – 13, 2022

Confession (Yoon Jong-seok) – 14, 2022
The Batman (Matt Reeves) – 16, 2022
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks (Reginald Harkema) – 17, 2022
George Carlin’s American Dream (Judd Apatow & MIchael Bonfiglio) – 18, 2022
Legendary in Action! (Justin Cheung & Li Ho) – 21, 2022