Terry Ng’s sickly sweet education-themed romantic melodrama might quote high literature, but certainly hasn’t learnt from it.
Category: Hong Kong
Time and Tide
Tsui Hark’s semi-classic hasn’t aged as well as it would have liked, but it’s got its charms.
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Tragedy, coincidence and loneliness clash in Peter Chan’s romantic comedy-drama.
Anita
Longman Leung puts on his rosiest lens and delivers a superficial but sweet retelling of Anita Mui’s life.
Focus Hong Kong: Making Waves
For three days only, Focus Hong Kong returns to London with its touring programme Making Waves – Navigators of Hong Kong Cinema.
Naked Killer
Clarence Fok delivers on nudity and killers in Naked Killer, though not in the quantities one might have hoped.
Time
First-time director Ricky Ko leads a talented cast in a so-so comedy action drama mishmash.
Life Without Principle
Life, like the stock market, is full of ups and downs in Johnnie To’s financial crime drama.
Twins Mission
Another Twins movie, another 90 minutes of unbridled lunacy
Raging Fire
Benny Chan ensures he goes out guns blazing in his final theatrical film.
Twins Effect 2
Boys rule, girls drool in Corey Yuen and Patrick Leung’s aged-like-milk fantasy.
Z Storm
David Lam’s 90-minute commercial for the ICAC is exactly as boring as it sounds.