RTHK RADIO 3
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Films that explore struggling authors and writers block have a tendency to unravel into violence and hysteria. This is certainly the case with Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story.… Read More
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Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett headline the all-female sequel to the Clooney/Soderbergh crime capers. But can the girls pull it off with the same degree of breezy confidence and effortless… Read More
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The only thing that’ll stop a bad guy with a gun is Bruce Willis with a gun, or so this ultraviolent revenge thriller from director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe… Read More
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A trivial disagreement escalates into a national event that reopens wounds from the Lebanese Civil War in Ziad Doueiri’s Oscar-nominated drama The Insult. Skewering everything from fragile masculinity to unchecked… Read More
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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return to Isla Nublar, this time to save the dinosaurs from an imminent extinction all over again, but there are nefarious plans ahead. (at… Read More
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Clive Owen stars as a homicide detective on the trail of a vicious killer who makes the victims watch their own death in this near-future science fiction, where society has… Read More
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Fish Liew stars in Derek Chiu’s drama of social unrest in Hong Kong, as a student caught up in the 1967 Maoist protests, as well as the aftermath of the… Read More
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British actor Peter Turner’s memoir Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, detailing his romance with Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, has been brought to the screen by Paul McGuigan, probably best… Read More
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The second standalone Star Wars adventure takes a look back at the origins and early misadventures of Han Solo. Alden Ehrenreich takes the lead, alongside Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and… Read More
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Colin Farrell reteams with The Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos for a bleak, unnerving and darkly humorous tale of manipulation and revenge. Read More
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Following the surprise success of Deadpool a sequel was inevitable, and two years on Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as the “merc with the mouth” for an amped-up second go-around.… Read More
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A transgressive, feminist reimagining of the rape-revenge thriller sees an ill-fated sex kitten transform into a butt-kicking angel of vengeance in Coralie Fargeat’s lurid, bloody, desert-set exploitation flick. (at 23:52) Read More
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Vivian Qu explores the #MeToo movement in contemporary China by following the troubled misadventures of two pairs of young girls, who fall prey to the unwanted sexual exploitation of men… Read More
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In 1968, British amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst aimed to become the first man to sail around the world single-handed when he entered the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. Lacking the… Read More
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Nick Cheung writes, directs and stars in this ambitious futuristic thriller about an undercover cop tasked with smoking out an elusive criminal mastermind. (at 12:20) Read More
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Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award at Cannes last year for her first German-language lead role, as a grieving wife and mother who takes vengeance into her own hands. Read More
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Arriving in the wake of Oscar-winning gay romance Call Me by Your Name , Love, Simon presents an even more mainstream take on adolescent homosexuality. A charming, witty and wholly… Read More
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In the aftermath of an alien invasion, a family struggles to survive against ferociously violent creatures who hunt purely using their sense of hearing. (at 18:13) Read More
