Crows Explode
THE THIRD FILM in a series based on Hiroshi Takahashi’s Crows manga series from the 1990s, Crows Explodes begins one month after the action of Crows Zero II ends. New fights begin to see who will climb to the top at Suzuran High School. Meanwhile, a battle against nearby Kurosaki Industrial High School begins. Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda (the first two films were directed by Takashi Miike), it stars Masahiro Higashide and Taichi Saotome. The Japan Times’ Mark Schilling writes: “like so many commercial films based on long-running manga, Crows Explode crams in as many characters from the original as possible… As well liked as they are by fans, the subplots involving them at times contribute more distracting static than narrative depth, while their back stories remain sketchy to non-fans.”
MTRCB Rating: R-13
Everyday I Love You
A STAR CINEMA film directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and starring Liza Soberano, Gerald Anderson, Enrique Gil, this film has a very While You Were Sleeping-esque plot — a young woman waiting for the love of her life to wake up from a coma, meets another man she ends up falling for.
MTRCB Rating: G
Revenge Of The Green Dragons
TWO BROTHERS who survive the New York of the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang The Green Dragons, quickly rise up the ranks. An ill-fated love affair pits brother against brother, and looking for revenge on the gang who made him who he is. Directed by Andrew Loo, the film stars Ray Liotta, Justin Chon, Shuya Chang, and Harry Shum, Jr. “This crime drama wants to be a Chinese-American Goodfellas, but it ends up just looking bad,” writes Jordan Hoffman of the New York Daily News.
MTRCB Rating: R-18
The Professional (a.k.a. Momentum)
A PROFESSIONAL thief on a routine heist quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Directed by Stephen Campanelli, it stars Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman, and James Purefoy. “Momentum is a spectacularly generic action-thriller that, despite its sleekly shot and edited mayhem, lands with a giant thud,” writes Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times.
MTRCB Rating: R-16
