When Eric Kot was a member of the Soft Hard Kids back in the 1990s, he was an icon of Hong Kong popular culture. Now he sits in the director’s chair to make Super Fans, a film starring Charlene Choi of the popular duo Twins, set in Hong Kong’s pop culture scene. A real-life pop [...]

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The Pang Brothers have earned a reputation for making quality horror films, emerging as prominent directors in the Hong Kong film industry. Instead of telling a ghost story again, their latest piece, Forest of Death, unfolds an X-Files-like supernatural tale with some sci-fi elements, something new for a Pang Brothers movie. Produced by both and [...]

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Acclaimed Mainland actress Zhou Xun (Best Actress winner for Perhaps Love) takes up two roles in MV director Susie Au’s debut feature Ming Ming, which also stars Hong Kong heartthrob Daniel Wu, Taiwanese rising actor Tony Yang (Formula 17), and singer Jeff Chang. With a dizzying avant garde style that distinguishes this piece from other [...]

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The trend of queer-themed movies featuring young idols seems to be on the rise in Taiwan. After the well-received Eternal Summer about gay love, now comes the lesbian-themed Spider Lilies. Best New Artist winner Isabella Leong and popular Taiwanese singer Rainie Yang portray lesbian lovers in Zero Chou’s Spider Lilies, a breakthrough for both actresses. [...]

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It’s a Shaw Brothers flashback as the legendary Lau Kar Leung directs and stars in Drunken Monkey, a 2003 action film with old-school kung-fu charms! Lau Kar Leung stars as Man Biu, master of the Monkey Fist, and its alcohol-influenced variation, the Drunken Monkey Fist. But his own brother betrays him with the help of [...]

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After sweeping through Japan and Hong Kong in the summer of 2006, manga-turned-blockbuster Death Note presents its thrilling conclusion in the highly anticipated sequel, Death Note: The Last Name. Topping the Japanese box office for four straight weeks, Death Note: The Last Name decides the fates of anti-hero protagonist Yagami Light and quirky, sweets-consuming detective [...]

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Directed by Ma Wai Ho and starring Miriam Yeung and Edison Chan, Dummy Mommy, Without A Baby is a hilarious comedy about an office worker’s attempt to avoid getting laid off by pretending to be pregnant. What is going to happen when her boss finds out her pregnancy was faked? SELaplana >> Movie & TV [...]

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When we last left Wai Siu Bo (Stephen Chow), he had just sent the fake Empress Dowager Lung Yi (Sharla Cheung) packing, and was in the process of restoring order to the Emperor’s court. But Lung Yi returns to gain revenge, except she’s had a massive makeover and now looks like Brigitte Lin! More of [...]

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Song Hye Kyo, star of such TV drama series as All In and Full House, makes her big screen debut in My Girl and I, a remake of the Japanese smash hit Crying Out Love In The Center Of The World. Also starring My Sassy Girl‘s Cha Tae Hyun, the film is a tender tale [...]

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You’ve seen it before: gangsters trying to force people to move from their homes in order to clear out the area to make way for corporate construction. It was one of the major plot points of Holiday in 2006, and one of Korean society’s less charming realities. Pil Je (Lim Chang Jung, Sex is Zero) [...]

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