Tuesday, October 1, 2013

[2013.10.02] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 29 2013

For the week ending September 29 2013
Photos courtesy of Yahoo! Movies Hong Kong


10 JOBS
    d. Joshua Michael Stern
    Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas


 9 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.


 8 DON JON
    d. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza


 7 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.


 6 YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON
  Can : Dik Yun Kit ji Sun Doh Lung Wong
  Lit : Dik Yun Kit : God City Dragon King
  AKA : DETECTIVE DEE THE PREQUEL
  Can : Dik Yun Kit Chin Juen
    d. Tsui Hark
    Carina Lau Ka Ling, AngelaBaby, Feng Shaofeng, Mark Chao (Chiu Yau Ting),
      Lin Gengxin, Kim Beom
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 133 mins.
  Opening September 26 2013

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  The young Dee Renjie arrives in the Imperial Capital, intent to become an officer of the law. Empress Wu, who is at the start of her reign, has sent the fiery-haired Detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night. By chance, both Dee and Yuchi fight off the creature when it attacks a ceremonial procession carrying the beautiful courtesan Yin to be sacrificed at a temple to appease the Gods. Suspicious of the stranger, Yuchi has Dee imprisoned. Dee escapes with the help of visiting doctor Shatuo and together they discover that the upper reaches of society, including the Emperor himself, are addicted to a poisonous tea produced by Yuan's famous teahouse. Yuan, who was romantically attached to Yin, has been missing for months. Dee shadows the courtesan, who is under Yuchun's protection, until the sea monster reappears. Just as the two men are about to kill it, Yin reveals that the monster is her lover, Yuan. Yuan has been poisoned by a foreign Prince whose kingdom was overthrown by the Emperor. As the Prince's army readies itself on a nearby island to attack the capital, a real sea dragon rises from the deep.


 5 RUNNER RUNNER
    d. Brad Furman
    Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, Anthony Mackie


 4 WE'RE THE MILLERS
    d. Rawson Marshall Thurber
    Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Ed Helms


 3 MR. AND MRS. PLAYER
  Can : LAN GWUN FU YU LAN GWUN CHAI
  Lit : Screwing Husband And Screwing Wife
    d. Wong Jing
    Chapman To Man Jat, Chrissie Chau Sau Na, Iris Chung Choi Yi, Jeanette Leung Ching Kok,
      Wilfred Lau Ho Lung, Kimmy Tong Fei
  Rating : III
  Length : 98 mins.
  Opening September 26 2013

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
  Chinese Feng Shui master, Carson was a "Natural Born Player", taking names and breaking hearts. Fate had it that he would meet his match, the hot veterinarian, Chi-Ling. It was love at first sight but neither could stand the other's fickle nature lest the affair might have ended as soon as it began.

  Chi-Ling's roommates, Big S and Small S came up with a perfect plan – to invite Carson to move in with Chi-Ling and make him promise to have no sexual contact with any girls for 100 days. Carson accepted the challenge without a second thought. Yet, the two sisters and his ex-lovers took turns in seducing him.

  Ninety difficult days have since passed, the biggest temptation arrived in the form of the hottest bachelor in Hong Kong, Daniel Lee began courting Chi-Ling. At the same time, Karen, Carson’s first love, suddenly came back into his life. Would these star crossed lovers cross the finish line together?

[ CINEMA ONLINE MALAYSIA ]
  Chapman To and Chrissie Chau play two individuals of the opposite sex who are notorious players who are unable to maintain a relationship with one specific person for a long time. When the two cross paths, they end up falling for each other, but considering their disreputable past, they decide to live together to practice being "exclusive" to each other to prove their true love.


 2 ELYSIUM
    d. Neill Blomkamp
    Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga


 1 THE STOLEN YEARS
  Can : Bei Tau Jau Dik Na Ng Nin
  Lit : The Five Years That Are Stolen
    d. Barbara Wong Chun Chun
    Fay Bai Baihe, Joseph Chang Hau Chuen, Amber An
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 111 mins.
  Opening September 12 2013

[ BROADWAY CIRCUITS ]
  "I don't want to know......why when I open my eyes you are not mine?" Xie Yu and He Man are the golden couple of an advertising agency. After marriage they are still passionately in love, but one day when He Man wakes up, she is told that she and Xie Yu were divorced five years ago. Actually He Man was in a coma after an accident, after waking up she has lost five years of memory. Yet she never wants to know why in her memory yesterday she and he were still happily on honeymoon, but now when she opens her eyes the person she loves no longer belongs to him. Facing Xie Yu who already has a new girlfriend, He Man has no idea what to do. She wants to know what happened in these five years that made them end up in divorce? Why Xie Yu who once shared a bed with her now is like a stranger to her? Why would she and her best friend become enemies? Why would her company colleagues keep their distance when she returns? Xie Yu promises to help her find her memories, as the past is uncovered page by page. The truth of what steals away her love is also gradually unveiled......

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