Month: January 2020

Lost in Hong Kong (Lac Loi o Hong Kong) was China’s fifth-biggest film of 2015, grossing $234 million, but I struggled to get through it….

He Ping, the Chinese director best known for his international arthouse hit Red Firecracker Green Firecracker, is also the director of an intriguing trilogy of ‘Chinese…

Hong Kong fans get exactly one chance to guess to which movie this is a sequel. Of course it’s “Double Tap”! It also shouldn’t be…

Set in 1943, late in the WWII period in China. A brave KMT army division stationed in Changde city. A strategic garrison in Northwest Hunan…

Jacky Wu Jing has been working in Hong Kong cinema for over ten years now. But despite a number of leading roles he is yet…

‘The Storm Warriors’ was the last film to sweep Hollywood competition aside when, in 1998, it marched to a fearsome $HK 40 million plus that…

The annual Sammi Cheng Lunar New Year film tries its best to be a sophisticated romantic drama. But the result feels more clinically manufactured than…

Dry Martina shares both a cinematographer and an unconventional, self-determined female protagonist with Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman. Yet, mired in aimless plotting and mixed…

Raid comes at the right time – once again, the headlines are filled with breathless reports of a scam involving thousands of crores and white-collar…

While there is really no doubt that Hong Kong film-makers can keep up with (and many times exceed) their western counterparts in most aspects despite…