The 3D is terrific in "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate," but helmer Tsui Hark's costume actioner -- the first Chinese-lingo movie shown in the stereoscopic Imax format -- is let down by two-dimensional characters.
CF: Video Clip of Remastered "New Dragon Inn" Released
CF: "Let the Bullets Fly" Gets North America Release
Shu Qi, Shawn Yue star in Carol Lai's "The Second Woman"
Shu Qi plays duo roles as twin sisters in the romance-horror.
Final poster for "Romancing in Thin Air" (Sina)
Lau Ching-Wan and Nicholas Tse attended the announcement of the HKFA nominations
MSN: Choi Min-Sik afraid of Cecilia Cheung
The actress made news in South Korea recently when veteran actor Choi Min-Sik revealed an unhappy working experience with the former 11 years ago on the movie Falian.
Cecilia's father, Zhang Ren Yong, was said to have powerful connections to the triads and stirred much fear within the production team of movie Falian.
Ceclia Cheung and father (Sina)
A1: Lollipop F's Owodog avoids tweeting Gillian Chung
Rumours started flying last September when the two were seen tweeting each other on Weibo frequently.
Gillian was also seen attending a gathering at Owodog's home, and catching You Are The Apple of My Eye with him in Taipei.
CNet: Ethical iPhone 5 petitions to be delivered to Apple stores
In a statement today, watchdog group SumOfUs said that it plans to deliver its own petition, along with one from Change.org, to a number of Apple's retail stores around the world. That includes New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore.
Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
Danwei: The first Chinese Internet meme of the Year of the Dragon has emerged:
"Vacation style medical treatment"
Good to see Carol Lai is still directing. I really loved her first two films. But it seems like since then she's been stuck making thrillers and horror movies.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing Let the Bullets Fly on the big screen! And getting less enthusiastic about Flying Swords after being reminded of how great New Dragon Inn was.
Thriller is probably a better description of the film.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing Let the Bullets Fly on the big screen!
Lucky you. I will have to satisfy myself with the DVD. :(
I also see that China Lion is going to distribute "Love" next week.
p.s. I'm off to d/l your podcast. :D