Tuesday, September 10, 2013

[2013.09.11] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 8 2013

For the week ending September 8 2013
Photos courtesy of Yahoo! Movies Hong Kong


10 HARDCORE COMEDY
  Can : Chong Hau Mei
  Lit : Heavy Flavor
    d. Henri Wong Chi Hang, Andy Lo (Law Yiu Fai), Chong Siu Wing
    Oscar Leung Lit Wai, Christine Kuo, C Kwan
      William Chan Wai Ting, Dada Chan Jing,
      Kelvin Kwan Chor Yiu, Paulyn Sun Kai Kwan,
      Michelle Wai Si Nga, Terence Siufay
  Rating : III
  Length : 92 mins.
  Opening July 6 2013 at the New York Asian Film Festival
  Opening August 29 2013

[ NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ]
  There’s something for everyone in this raunchy, over-the-top post-Vulgaria three-part omnibus. It’s the ultimate genre mash-up, a heady and hilarious brew of action-packed superhero exploits, obscene erotica, psychedelic narcotics, heart warming romance, crossdressing, mobster vendettas, plus insane car stunts! Turtles! Iced tea! A dance extravaganza! Coming soon!—you get the idea.


 9 BEFORE MIDNIGHT
    d. Richard Linkletter
    Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy


 8 RIDDICK
    d. David Twohy
    Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Kate Sackhoff, Jordi Molla


 7 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES
    d. Harald Zwart
    Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan


 6 THE INTERNSHIP
    d. Shawn Levy
    Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne


 5 THE WAY WE DANCE
  Can : Kong Mo Pai
  Lit : Mad Dance Style
    d. Adam Wong Sau Ping
    Cherry Ngan Cheuk Ling, Babyjohn Choi Hong Yik, Lokman Yeung,
      Tommy Guns, Paul Wong Koon Chung
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 110 mins.
  Opening March 31 2013 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
  Opening August 8 2013

[ HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
  Fa, with a zeal to dance, finally gets to leave her sordid life at her parents' tofu shop when she enters university and joins a hip-hop club. She stumbles into the world of dance competition between rival groups and a love complication between the group leader, his ex-lover, an aspiring tai-chi master and herself. But in the end, the show must go on! An unprecedented on-screen performance from the best B-boys in Hong Kong and beyond.


 4 RED 2
    d. Dean Parisot
    Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker,
      Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-Hun


 3 THE MIDAS TOUCH
  Can : Chiu Cup Gaing Lei Yun
  Lit : Super Manager
    d. Fung Chih-Chiang
    Chapman To Man Jat, Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin,
      Gao Yunxiang, Christie Si Xuan, Alice Luo Shi, Una Xie,
      Zhuang Jiemeng, Venus Wong Man Yik,
      Angela Hui Ching Wan, Zhang Zhi-Qian,
      Deep Ng Ho Hong, Jenny Lau Wai Huen
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 98 mins.
  Opening September 5 2013

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  Successful debt collector Chiu takes pity on a group of wannabe pop starlets when he goes to collect from the agency they are signed with. Naively thinking that he can do a better job in launching their careers, Chiu takes over the company in lieu of the debt but starts to realize that he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Hoping that things might change with a more strategic approach, he hires experienced talent manager Suen but with money running low and the company on the brink of bankruptcy, a dejected Chiu is soon ready to admit that his Midas touch has run out until a Korean showbiz entity expresses interest in the girls. Now Chiu has to decide whether he is willing to say goodbye to his investment and, more importantly, to a dream he has come so close to achieving.


 2 THE CONJURING
    d. James Wan
    Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor


 1 UNBEATABLE
  AKA : MMA
  Can : Gik Jin
  Lit : Extreme War
    d. Dante Lam Chiu Yin
    Nick Cheung Ka Fai, Eddie Peng Yu-Yen, Andy Tien (On Chi Kit),
      Mei Ting, Crystal Lee Hing Hau
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 116 mins.
  Opening August 13 2013 at the Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival
  Opening August 15 2013

[ HONG KONG SUMMER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ]
  Nick Cheung puts on weight and age to play Fai, a 48-year-old down-out-out boxer, eking out a living in Macao training fat ladies to lose weight. Now Dan, a brat sharing his flat with her single mom, tortures him at home, and then Eddie Peng’s Qi, a hunk of a young man entering an MMA tournament to prove something, pesters him at the gym. Sure they make his life hell, but again, they may be angels in disguise. With exhilarating kick-boxing scenes edited at a furious pace abundant, director Dante Lam also fashions a warming drama about love, loyalty and redemption.

[ YAHOO! MOVIES HONG KONG ]
  Over the hill Hong Kong boxer Wong Ching Fai becomes a lost middle age man who is ridden in gambling debt. Rich kid Doi Si Chai loses everything due to his father's business failure. Two lost souls who were once at their prime, one to avoid debt collectors and the other to find his father, run into each other in Macau and become master and disciple. Fai in order to regain his life dignity and Chai in order to encourage his missing father not to give up step into the MMA ring and challenge strong opponents without any fear.

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