MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
‘Assignment’ Complete
The North and the South are two great tastes tasting great together again in Confidential Assignment 2: International, with added Americans!
Food, Fights
It’s still moon-based! Sunny Chan’s rejiggered LNY comedy Table for Six hits the right notes for Mid-Autumn.
Found in Translation
Forrest Gump goes to India in Laal Singh Chaddha. And we mean that literally.
Hakuna Matata, Mofo
Idris Elba faces off against the King of the Jungle in Beast in the year’s second most hilarious animal throwdown.
Millennial Angst
Holy shit! Idris Elba comes out of a lamp in Three Thousand Years of Longing.
Second. Best
It’s hella stupid but Orphan: First Kill really goes there and in doing so betters the original.
‘Novel’ Indeed
The re-edited, 4K edition of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders: The Complete Novel is a minor feast for movie buffs.
‘Future’ Shock
Producer-star Louis Koo taps VFX pro Ng Yuen-fai to help prove there is such a thing as HK SF.
Alien Concept
Alienoid is a big swing and a big miss. Here’s hoping it pulls a win out of part two.
This is ‘Happening’
It would be really nice not to say a movie like Happening was ‘timely.’
An ‘Affair’ to Remember
Strap in: MIRROR is in a movie. Also, Mama’s Affair is Kearen Pang’s solid follow-up to her impressive debut.
Pet Project
DC League of Super-Pets is slightly cyncial but suitably time-wasting. Plus Keanu!
Off the Rails
YOU WILL LIKE IT, AND IF YOU FIGHT IT BULLET TRAIN WILL BLUDGEON YOU UNTIL YOU DO!