Hong Kong
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Vincent Zhao stars as the eponymous military tactician in Gordon Chan’s sweeping action epic, following the efforts of the Ming army to keep a fleet of fearsome Japanese pirates at… Read More
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Herman Yau and Anthony Wong reunite for a grisly supernatural horror that tells parallel narratives in the 90s and Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. Listen to my review Read More
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Pang Ho Cheung reunites Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue for a third dose of contemporary Hong Kong romantic woes in the third part of his surprisingly amusing trilogy. Read More
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Shawn Yue and Eric Tsang headline an award-winning gritty, low-budget drama about the daily struggles of Hong Kong’s under-privileged. Read More
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When a vampire bite has no effect on young Tim, he is introduced to an underground organisation known as the Vampire Cleanup Department. He also falls in love with a… Read More
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Making an early bid for worst film of 2017, Chris Chow’s (Strawberry Cliff) remarkably underwhelming psycho-thriller stars Cherry Ngan as a kidnap victim reunited with her wealthy family after 12… Read More
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Renowned patriot Jackie Chan reaffirms his pledge of allegiance to China in Railroad Tigers, playing Ma Yuan, a Shandong railway worker who leads a plucky band of guerilla fighters in… Read More
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Nearly 40 years after Chor Yuen launched his acting career in the Shaw Brothers classic Death Duel, director Derek Yee returns to Gu Long’s source novel for a ravishing new… Read More
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Last year saw Ringo Lam, the acclaimed Hong Kong director behind such action spectaculars as City on Fire and Full Contact, stage a comeback with his first feature film in… Read More
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A nostalgic look at Hong Kong in the 80s and a struggling Band 5 school principal who attempts to put his students straight by training them as a baseball team.… Read More
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TVB’s 2014 hit drama series Line Walker gets an expensive spin-off, adding A-list stars and exotic South American locations around Charmaine Sheh Sze-man’s CIB officer Ding, an undercover cop who… Read More
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Four years after their debut feature Cold War became the most successful local release of 2012, writer-directors Longman Leung and Sunny Luk deliver a second round of tense confrontations and… Read More
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A desperate cop and dutiful surgeon clash over the fate of a seriously wounded criminal in Johnnie To’s latest thriller, staged within the claustrophobic confines of a single hospital location.… Read More
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Long after 1981’s Chariots of Fire immortalised “Flying Scotsman” Eric Liddell for refusing to run on a Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympics, an unofficial sequel arrives, dramatising his later… Read More
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The city’s expat experience is given the rom-com treatment in this contrived but proficient indie. Listen to my review (at 25:00) Read More
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Martial arts fans anticipating Sammo Hung Kam-bo’s first directorial effort in close to 20 years will be left sorely disappointed by The Bodyguard. Read my review Read More
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Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau sets his sights on the city’s recent political unrest for The Mobfathers, his second new film (after Nessun Dorma) to debut at this year’s… Read More
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