RTHK RADIO 3

  • Aaron Kwok again transforms into the mischievous Sun Wukong for the third instalment of Soi Cheang’s blockbuster holiday franchise. This time, however, the focus is not on Wukong himself, but… Read More

  • Arriving under a cloud of controversy concerning Woody Allen’s private life, Kate Winslet stars as a frustrated housewife in 1950s Coney Island. Read More

  • Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in the real-life drama surrounding The Washington Post’s handling of the controversial Pentagon Papers in 1971. (at 19:23) Read More

  • 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

  • Who got nominated? Who got snubbed? Whose turn is it? Read More

  • 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

  • Margot Robbie and Allison Janney give barnstorming performances in this darkly comic mockumentary about disgraced Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding. Read More

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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