RTHK RADIO 3
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Guillermo del Toro delivers a beautiful romantic fantasy starring Sally Hawkins as a mute Cold War era cleaning lady who falls in love with a mysterious aquatic creature. Read More
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Who got nominated? Who got snubbed? Whose turn is it? Read More
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Stephy Tang continues her evolution from rom-com popette into legitimate dramatic leading lady as a pregnant police detective confronted by a teenage girl who confesses to murdering her parents. (at… Read More
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Margot Robbie and Allison Janney give barnstorming performances in this darkly comic mockumentary about disgraced Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding. Read More
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He doesn’t get the same recognition as other leaders of the US civil rights movement, yet James Baldwin was a prominent activist in the mid-20th century. His unfinished manuscript, Remember… Read More
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The unlikely friendship between an elderly busybody and an ambitious young civil servant is at the heart of Korean filmmaker Kim Hyun-suk’s lighthearted comedy I Can Speak – that is,… Read More
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Distantly evoking the most nihilistic qualities of the Coen Brothers’ brand of small-town noir, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri arrives in Hong Kong cinemas with a fistful of… Read More
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Chen Kaige’s hugely expensive period supernatural whodunnit boasts incredible sets, expensive CGI but somewhere along the way loses the plot. (at 27:59) Read More
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Liam Neeson applies his very particular set of skills to a New York commuter train in his fourth collaboration with director Jaume Collet-Sera. (at 22:17) Read More
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In 2003, an enigmatic nobody named Tommy Wiseau directed what is now widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Featuring a level of tone-deaf ineptitude to… Read More
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Hailed as “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”, The Room first screened in 2003, and has since become something of a cult phenomenon. An amateurish psycho-drama devoid of stars, talent… Read More
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An alien invasion finds its way to Indonesia in this gleefully absurd martial arts/sci-fi mash-up. Just enough fun to give it a pass as mindless late-night entertainment. (at 22:43) Read More
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In the early 90s, a young man joins the Act Up Paris activist group, takes on the government and the pharmaceutical giants and falls in love with a founding member… Read More
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Gary Oldman gives one of the strongest performances of his career as Winston Churchill, in Joe Wright’s otherwise rather flimsy WWII drama. Read More
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Over the past 12 months I managed to watch close to 300 films eligible for consideration in my end-of-year Top 10, but only a select few would make the cut. Read More
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Kenneth Branagh directs and dons the ridiculous moustache and outrageous Belgian accent, as Hercules Poirot investigates murder most foul amidst a star-studded carriage of locomotive passengers. Read More
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The life and achievements of Robin Cavendish, one of Britain’s longest-surviving “responauts”, is the subject of Breathe, the well-intentioned directorial debut from actor Andy Serkis. Read my review Read More
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Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave architect regarded by many as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, is the subject of a new film by Oscar-winning director Michel… Read More
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