Sundays on Fire III: A New Beginning!
Now extended until the END OF 2025 for your viewing pleasure, on the second Sunday of every month, at high noon, Subway Cinema teams up with the Nitehawk Prospect Park to deliver a 35mm print of a Hong Kong classic. We don’t tell you the title until it appears on the screen, but 2025’s line-up is all killer, no filler. We’re live-subtitling some prints with new translations specially made for this series, and we’re showing several stone cold classics that never play anywhere. We don’t know how we got these prints either! Next up…
Sunday, 4/13 @ 12pm
A star-studded, action-packed extravaganza, this flick is the sequel to one of the biggest hits in Hong Kong history, however no familiarity with the original is required. In true Hong Kong fashion, when the original movie became a much-imitated blockbuster, its director and producer began to make their own knock-offs, send-ups, and parodies, biding their time until they could afford to hire the original superstar who played that film’s most iconic role to return for the official sequel. Then they added a few more megastars just to be safe, and turned it into not just a huge action movie but also a parody of huge action movies. There are martial arts battles, heroic bloodshed shoot-outs, gambling duels, and even a brief break for some song and dance, plus razor sharp satire. Because when Hong Kong does something a second time, they always go bigger, badder, and even more totally and completely over the top.