It’s Chinese New Year, so it’s time for Chinese New Year movies.
Golden Chickensss/金雞SSS is the third Golden Chicken movie.
It’s Chinese New Year, and that means Chinese New Year movies.
What does that mean? Silliness, cameos, and happy endings.
I admit I was really looking forward to From Vegas To Macau/賭城風雲.
The trailer tends, except for its very end, to portray the film as much more serious than in fact it actually is.
It is serious. But it also isn’t.
During Chinese New Year, ...Read more
An unnamed city, somewhere in the future. Technology (and advertising) abound.
2013 was a pretty good year for local cinema.
There were quite a few good films, a handful of great ones, and, naturally, some not so great.
And there were some real turds too.
So here, from worst to best, are my most memorable films of the year:There are links to each review on their thumbnails, and in the descrīption of each of those reviews there is a link to the written version.
If you’re r...Read more
I’m not really a fan of Wong Ching Po; I enjoyed Jiang Hu/江湖, but after Ah Sou/阿嫂 I skipped his next few films. So I’m not familiar with his recent work.
But I am
very impressed by his directing here. He makes a new movie that...Read more
This is the third, and hopefully final installment in the Lan Kwai Fong series, movies about young, rich, (supposedly) pretty young people who have no responsibilities to themselves or, apparently, anyone else.
I’m not going to bother with...Read more
It’s a new year, and a new movie.
And the same old me.
As the Light Goes Out/救火英雄 is the latest in a string of local blockbusters, movies with big casts, b...Read more
An American rifle? How unpatriotic!Firestorm/風暴 is a story about a by-the-book police officer who wants to catch a criminal and the lengths (and depths) he will go to in order to catch him.
Well, that’s the story in the beginning.
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