Just Another Pandora's Box/越光宝盒is
the latest film from Jeff Lau, who made such classics as
A
Chinese Odyssey 1 & 2 and a personal favorite,
Haunted
Cop Shop.
Then again, he also made...Read more
3/20 - 7:30 - A Better Tomorrow - Film Archive 3/21 - 9:30 - Like a Dream - Convention Center 3/25 - 7:00 - Monga- Convention Center 3/26 - 9:30 - Short Film Showcase II - Science Museum 3/27 - 6:15 - Life During Wartime - Grand Cinema 4/2 - 10:30am - Like You Know it All - City Hall 4/3 - 12:30 - Short Film Showcase II - Art Center 4/4 - 6:00 - Yatterman - Cultural Center 9:30pm - To Walk Beside You - Langham Place 4/6 -5:30 - Love Massacre - Film Archive
Only 10 this year, including the film I'm in t...Read more
If you can read this, you're lucky. I nearly gave up blogging.
My last entry, which I thought was kind of funny, went virtually without comment.
Well, f@#$ you too.But I forgive you.
Because I'm lonely like that.
And because this entry is special:
It's
multimedia!!Samurai Zombie/鎧 サムライゾンビI'm not generally a fan of shot-on-video Japanese movi...Read more
Taken upstairs in the Dynasty Theatre, Mong Kok.
Confucius vs. Harry Potter
Just imagine the taglines..."This
time, it's personal..."
"Every saga has a beginning.""There
Can Be Only On
e!"
And that one would of...Read more
20 years ago I was in a band called Reelin' In Terror.
Stevie Barlow played the drums.
He played them very loud and very well.
He also drank a lot.
But only when he was awake.
He was the basis for some of my best rock and roll stories, like the time I kept seeing mysterious objects flying past my head at a Halloween gig.
I turned around towards Stevie to see what was going on.
Someone at the bar was throwing Jello shots at him. The few he didn't catch in his mouth, he still ma...Read more
I picked up the Iceman yesterday from Mimi. Here's a sneak peek with the hardware just put in place, not installed:
I have always been a big fan of
Dear Jane, because they make music I like, and they're all very nice guys.I first noticed them from watching a snippet of their video for 男兒當打交 in Times Square. I would randomly accost passersby, asking if they could tell me who the band was. That song was, and is,
great.Sadly, no one in Times Square could tell me who the band was. Or maybe they just didn't want to ta...Read more
Thanks to AnD, I met the people who allowed me to be a part of their team for the 48 Hour Film Competition.
Thanks to Yu Yung Yung, I had met Thomas Lo and Koora May Lee and Andrew Lang and Stephanie Fodor.
They let me join them anyway.....Read more
Alex Law's Echoes of the Rainbow is showing at HKIFF and will be released to local theatres soon.
I auditioned for a small part in this film, but I didn't get it. I have mixed feelings about missing out on the role.
Part of me is quite sad, becauseit would have been great to be involved with a movie I could show my mother.
I edited the subtitles onRead more
If we don't support the movies that deserve it, we get the movies that we deserve.