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Shawn Yue

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Mad World (Wong Chun, 2016)
Wong Chun

Mad World (Wong Chun, 2016)

For more than a hundred years, all over the world, what is taken to be serious cinema has been defined more often than not by content. Films for grown-ups are supposed to be sober examinations of the social and political issues of the day. These are the movies that win
28 Jun 2017 4 min read
Love Off the Cuff (Pang Ho-cheung, 2017)
Pang Ho-cheung

Love Off the Cuff (Pang Ho-cheung, 2017)

Love Off the Cuff starts with a horror movie, a tale set in the recent past about a village terrorized by a monster that eats children. As creepy as it is ridiculous, it functions as a none-too-subtle allegory for the crisis at the heart of the relationship between Cherie (Miriam
02 May 2017 2 min read
Wild City (Ringo Lam, 2015)
Ringo Lam

Wild City (Ringo Lam, 2015)

After more than a decade of semi-retirement, legendary director Ringo Lam returns to the big screen with a thriller that hearkens back to the golden age of the Hong Kong crime film. Lam made his mark in the late 80s and early 90s with a series of action films–gritty,
30 Jul 2015 3 min read
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