MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Karma, Bitch
Holy crap I Did It My Way has some great comedy in it. Too bad it’s accidental.
Hong Kong in Film: 2023
The highs, the lows, the little things that shaped the year in cinema in Hong Kong.
Such a Cold ‘Finger’
Felix Chong, Tony Leung and Andy Lau should be a cocktail for a great thriller. The Goldfinger is… okay.
Louder than Words
Ann Hui’s appropriately titled Elegies makes us wonder who she’s eulogising.
Not All Wounds
Nick Cheuk makes his debut with the rightly provocative Time Still Turns The Pages.
Plea for the Fifth
Lawrence Kan delivers Hong Kong’s own Spotlight with In Broad Daylight and delivers props to journos while he’s at it.
Done and Dusted
Jonathan Li reteams with producer Soi Cheang and star Gordon Lam for nihilism-lite, in Dust to Dust.
No Laughing Matter
Note: Au Cheuk-man’s very dramatic Stand Up Story has hardly any stand up comedy in it.
Save Yourselves
People, we have a contender for 2023’s biggest turkey. I give you: Onpaku.
Don’t Call Me…
Smart or too smart? Amos Why dives into the mobile world in Everyphone Everywhere.
An Acquired Taste
Mirror is just so 2022. Here’s comes Error with YUM Investigation, a little 1982.
Boom, Boom, Yau
Herman Yau’s The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell is a lot of bang for your buck. Literally. No, like everything blows up.
Crap Shoot
Chow Yun-fat stops gambling his life away in Anthony Pun’s paean to kindness, One More Chance.
‘State’ of the Arts
Haider Kikabhoy and Dora Choi turn the spotlight on some long lost Hong Kong history in To Be Continued.
Anti-‘Social’
For an idea of what Social Distancing is about, refer to the Chinese title. Just don’t expect much.