Thursday, June 14, 2012

6.14.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

FBA: First Time review
Chinese re-working of a South Korean romance is far richer than the original.
Rote drama of motor-racing rivalries, with performances way above the script.



CF: "The Last Supper" Release Date Postponed
Director Lu Chuan immediately responded to the news by joking that his "baby is waiting for a hukou" (household registration), meaning that State Administration of Radio, Film and Television had not yet approved the film..

Liu Yifei plays a wheelchair-bound detective in Gordon Chan and Janet Chun's "The Four".



In addition, she is ruthless, a friend of birds and has an iron hand



Liu Yifei

Anthony Wong

Deng Chao

Jiang Yiyan 
The cast also includes Ronald Cheng, Collin Chou and Wu Xiubo


Adapted from Wen Ruian's novel. The novel tells the story of four young constables: Heartless, Iron Fist, Chaser, and Cold Blood, who work together to solve mysterious cases and discovers the plan to overthrow the capital by flooding it with an army of undead.

"Windseeker"/"The Silent War" directed by Alan Mak and Felix Chong will be released Aug. 10 in Asia, China and the US. Besides Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Zhou Xun, the cast also includes Mavis Fan, Wang Xuebing and Carrie Ng.




On Sunday night, Ekin and Charlene Choi met with the media to promote their new movie, My Sassy Hubby. It is the pair's first collaboration since My Wife is 18 in 2002 but they showed good rapport.
The album, which contains Buddhist teachings in Cantonese recited by Andy, was released in August 1998 under the singer's monastic title "Hui Guo".  

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm usually turned off by Liu Yifei, but The Four sounds pretty cool!

Hehe... love that last photo of Edison. ;p

dleedlee said...

Agreed. Though, must admit I've seen few of Liu Yifei's movies.

EDC: The Angry Young Man