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The Battle at Lake Changjin II: heroic Chinese… Chinese pride reigns once more in this sequel to the 2021 record-breaking epic that is packed full of relentless…
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John Woo adapted martial arts movie tropes to… Modern-day Hong Kong action films such as The Killer and City on Fire didn’t spring out of nowhere – they were…