Hong Kong
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, I chat with Phil Whelan about Ricky Gervais’ animated Netflix series Alley Cats, episode six in the Insidious franchise, Chinese animated fantasy… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew you can hear an excerpt from my interview with film composer Lorne Balfe, followed by reviews of Stephen Chow’s all-female sports comedy… Read More
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Twenty five years after scoring a resounding critical and commercial hit with the martial arts sports comedy Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong film industry legend Stephen Chow unleashes an absolute howler… Read More
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As blockbusters like The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Toy Story 5 continue to dominate cinema screens across Hong Kong, adventurous film-goers desperate to escape the incessant downpours can… Read More
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Best known for her numerous collaborations with French New Wave auteur Eric Rohmer, veteran Hong Kong-born editor and filmmaker Mary Stephen turns the camera on herself in Palimpsest: The Story… Read More
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Since it premiered at the 2024 Shanghai International Film Festival, Guan Hu’s pandemic-set drama A Man and a Woman has been languishing in a quarantine-like limbo for almost two years,… Read More
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The third instalment in Longman Leung’s sprawling Hong Kong police saga is also the best, delivering an action-packed nostalgia-fuelled thriller that unspools during the city’s giddy pre-handover heyday. Returning stars… Read More
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Wu Jing and Nicholas Tse headline a star-studded action epic from martial arts master Yuen Woo Ping, adapted from the “Biao Ren” manhua comic books. Jet Li, Tony Leung Ka… Read More
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When an ordinary working class family believe they have won the Mark Six Snowball Jackpot, the granddaughter responsible for buying the ticket decides not to tell her relatives that she… Read More
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Sammi Cheng and Dayo Wong headline Jack Ng’s nostalgic, if somewhat watered-down, tale of East TST hostess bars in the early 2000s. Louise Wong and Fish Liew once again prove… Read More
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Wealth and good fortune are the twin engines of the Lunar New Year film season, and Hong Kong filmmaker Philip Yung Tsz-kwong’s The Snowball on a Sunny Day is the… Read More
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According to the Chinese horoscope, those born in the Year of the Horse are characterised as popular, charming and active, as well as energetic and independent. In the Year of… Read More
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Hong Kong movie star and producer Louis Koo Tin-lok is currently rewriting history – and box office records – with the time-travel adventure Back to the Past. Taking in over… Read More
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Louis Koo reunites with WARRIORS OF FUTURE director Ng Yuen-fai (together with POSSESSION STREET’s Jack Lai) for another long-gestating sci-fi adventure – a big screen sequel to the 2001 TVB… Read More
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In 2025, Asian cinema continues to make its mark around the world. Animated features from mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as Japan, have shattered box office records, while… Read More
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The last few days have seen Hong Kong reeling from the unspeakable tragedy of the fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, which has left at least 146 people… Read More
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Set in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong towards the end of World War II, Against All Odds sees the attempted rescue of an American pilot intersecting with an assassination plot to eliminate… Read More
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A brand new animated fantasy feature from first-time director Tommy Ng Kai Chung, does Another World usher in a new era for Hong Kong animation, or does it struggle to… Read More
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