MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Lights Out
Director Anastasia Tsang and stars Sylvia Chang and Simon Yam try to keep the homefires burning in A Light Never Goes Out.
Far from ‘Sunny’
First time director Ray Lau Kok-rui tackles racism in Hong Kong, yeah racism, in The Sunny Side of the Street. Deal.
Digital Domain
Wong Hing-fan’s Aaron Kwok-starrer Cyber Heist arrives to put the hacking hijinks of The Net to shame.
‘Lost’ and Found
Sammi Cheng flexes her acting chops in debuting director Ka Sing-fung’s family foster drama Lost Love.
It ‘Blows’
Blows is a good word with which to describe the long-delayed crime epic Where The Wind Blows.
Growing Pains
Mabel Cheung turns documentarian for her portrait of a Ying Wa generation in To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self.
Picking a Fight
Donnie Yen does his martial thing in the latest adaptation of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Sakra.
By the Book
A Guilty Conscience looks like it might ride the legal thriller wave currently crashing over Hong Kong.
Courtroom TKO
One of Hong Kong’s most sensational crimes get the cinematic treatment in first time director Ho Cheuk-tin’s The Sparring Partner.
Three Strikes
What Tales from the Occult does best is make us think of other, better Hong Kong horror films.
Food, Fights
It’s still moon-based! Sunny Chan’s rejiggered LNY comedy Table for Six hits the right notes for Mid-Autumn.
‘Future’ Shock
Producer-star Louis Koo taps VFX pro Ng Yuen-fai to help prove there is such a thing as HK SF.
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.
Lucky Seven?
Septet is Johnnie To’s labour of love letter to Hong Kong, but some of the notes are nasty.