Screen Daily: Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame
There’s a tasty idea in here, and its entertainingly executed: graft a detective story onto a historical martial arts actioner set during the Tang dynasty, and see what emerges. Director Tsui Hark has never been a less-is-more kind of guy, and the sheer abundance of plot threads and sumptuous, FX-enriched set pieces threatens to swamp the story at times.
Strait Times/AFP: Tsui's film wows
Screen Daily: The Child's Eye 3D
While the script of cult directors Danny and Oxide Pang’s 3D horror movie is a strictly by-the-numbers affair, there are more than a few nicely set-up 3D moments and a healthy moment of surreal filmmaking in amidst the film’s horror-in-a-hotel tale.
As a action-packed tale of martial arts revenge and killings, the impressively staged Reign of Assassins certainly delivers the goods in stylish fashion. It might lack the sheer visual poetry of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but its scenes of sword-play are wonderful and once the story gathers momentum it is absorbing and entertaining.
Poster for national release
Screen Daily: Showtime
Macau-born Clara Law at Venice Festival
Law will present “Red Earth”, which is one segment of a larger project, “Quattro Hong Kong,” featuring the independent contributions of four Hong Kong directors: Herman Yau, Clara Law, Heiward Mak and Fruit Chan.
Li Bingbing
CRI: Li Bingbing in Venice,
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CRI: Shu Qi Models 'Legend of the Fist' Costumes
Lam Suet
Lam Suet, Liu Hua
Lam Suet plays his first lead role in the Hollywood-style Mainland action thriller Adventure Island directed by Feng Chao. Starting as a stage manager in the '80s, Lam Suet became a regular in Johnnie To's films and won a Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in PTU.
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FBA: Seediq Bale finally wraps
FBA: Hawthorn to open Pusan festival
Guests include Tang Wei and a gala screening of Late Autumn.
Karena Lam break due to pregnancy? In July, a pregnant woman resembling Karena Lam has been regularly seen visiting a Toronto hospital for check ups. To confirm suspicions, documents were checked and indicated the patient's English name was indeed 'Karena Lam'. This was reported by someone who is a friend of a nurse. A call by reporters to a GM at Filmko said that there were no signs of pregnancy and that Karena's break was for education purposes in order to get a degree in Canada.
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CRI: Film-goer Jolts Cinema, Distributor with Lawsuit over "Aftershock" Ads
Chen, who saw the movie twice at the Xi'an Polybona International Cinema (Polybona), said in her suit that audiences were given no warning or indication on the ticket that ads before the film ran to 20 minutes.
October Elle - Zhao Wei
Sam Lee, Edison Chen
Edison Chen and Sam Lee sold out a club in Hangzhou with 1000 tickets at 200 yuan each. One caller offered 80,000 for a box. Outside the club, it was like an auto show, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Ferraris filled the street. Out of town license plates indicated that many had made special trips to come. Edison's rapping in Mandarin was bad yet the crowd screamed like crazy. Female fans were especially excited as he left the stage and they grabbed to touch him.
(Xinhua)
There were several robbery cases involving banks and goldsmiths between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. The robbers used nine-millimeter automatic pistols (like the Black Star made for the People's Liberation Army), assault rifles such as the AK47 and even grenades...
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