[2017.05.10] FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 7 2017

For the week ending Sunday May 7 2017

Photos courtesy of Yahoo! Movies Hong Kong

10 WITH PRISONERS
  Can : Tung Chau
    d. Wong Kwok Kuen
    Neo Yau Hawk Sau, Kelvin Kwan Chor Yiu,
      Kimi Chiu Wing Yiu, Ashina Kwok Yik Sum,
  Rating : III
  Length : 69 mins.
  Opening May 4 2017
  Trailer: https://youtu.be/mZmKnA8R8WY

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
    Based on a true Hong Kong story, With Prisoners is set in a detention center for offenders aged 14 to 24. Inmates are subjected to daily physical and mental abuse.

    Young gang leader Fan is jailed for a minor conflict with a police officer and attempts to kill himself on the third day of his detention due to the staff's cruel treatment. Fan is rescued from his suicide attempt, and decides to endure his incarceration in order to visit his ill grandmother upon release. Throughout the rest of his detention, he witnesses and experiences insults from the staff, as well as the mysterious death of an inmate, while the truth is likely to remain unknown to the outside world.

 9 THIS IS NOT WHAT I EXPECTED
  Can : Hei Foon Nei
  Lit : Like You
    d. Derek Hui Won Yu
    Takeshi Kaneshiro (Gum Sing Mo), Zhou Dongyu, Sun Yizhou, Ming Xi,
      Lin Chiling, Tony Yang
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 106 mins.
  Opening May 4 2017
  Trailer: https://youtu.be/Ua4WmrkHJ0o

[ BROADWAY CIRCUIT ]
    Does difference breed contempt or fondness? The Lu family motto is ‘Being loathed leads to solitude and solitude keeps the mind clear.’ Callous and eccentric Lu Jin, President of an international hotel group, is every bit the man one loves to hate. Gu Shengnan, sous chef of Rosebud Hotel, is no more a social darling than him – confused, careless and unkempt, she is hardly what most men consider an object of desire. Lu Jin checks into a hotel to conduct acquisition research. He is dissatisfied with everything he sees, but a last-minute dish whipped by Gu Shengnan blows his mind. He starts ordering dishes from her and she starts cooking for him. The two don’t meet in person but they share a mutual appreciation for each other. Yet in reality, they’re arch-rivals whose every encounter is a catastrophe, until their identities are revealed by accident...In the tug-of-war between contempt and fondness, which side will win?

 8 THE SHACK
    d. Stuart Hazeldine
    Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw

 7 GOING IN STYLE
    d. Zach Braff
    Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin

 6 GIFTED
    d. Marc Webb
    Chris Evans, Mckenna Gate, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer

 5 THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS
    d. F. Gary Gray
    Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, Takeshi Kitano,
      Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Scott Eastwood, Nathalie Emmanuel,
      Elsa Pataky, Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell,

 4 THE BOSS BABY
    d. Tom McGrath
    DreamWorks Animation
    English Voices: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel

 3 SHOCK WAVE
  Can : Chak Dan Juen Ga
  Lit : Bomb Defusing Expert
    d. Herman Yau Lai To
    Andy Lau Tak Wa, Ron Ng Cheuk Hei, Song Jia, Jiang Wu,
      Philip Keung Ho Man, Liu Kai Chi, Felix Wong Yat Wa
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 118 mins.
  Opening April 20 2017
  Teaser : https://youtu.be/qwKno-hnjik

[ HONG KONG MOVIE 6 ]
    Cheung Choi-san is a senior inspector of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau (EOD). Seven years ago, he went undercover and became the protege of Hung Kai-pang, a top wanted criminal specializing in bombs. Cheung successfully disintegrated Hung's criminal gang, but during the operation, Hung manages to escape while his younger brother and allies were captured. To seek revenge for Cheung's betrayal, Hung returns and prepares to plant a series bombs in Hong Kong to create public panic, and lures Cheung out for action to unfold an ultimate plan for revenge.

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
    A criminal specializing in bombs is back for severe bomb attacks in the busiest cross-harbor tunnel in Hong Kong, a crucial bomb disposal operation has to be carried out by the EODB elites

 2 LOVE OFF THE CUFF
  Can : Chun Giu Gau Ji Ming
  Lit : Cherie Saves Jimmy
    d. Pang Ho Cheung
    Miriam Yeung Chin Wa, Shawn Yue Man Lok,
      Jiang Mengjie, Isabel Chan Yat Ning, June Lam Siu Ha,
      Paul Chun Pui, Hugo Goh (Ng Toi Yung)
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 119 mins.
  Opening April 11 2017 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
  Opening April 27 2017
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/aUJzs3VPjTI

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
    Star-crossed couple Jimmy and Cherie strive to stay together happily ever after, only to find their already precarious relationship further strained when Jimmy's childhood best friend pops up out of nowhere and requests him to donate his sperm for her artificial insemination. Meanwhile, the shocking news of Cherie's philandering father marrying a girl younger than herself does not make things any easier for Cherie.

 1 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
    d. James Gunn
    Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper,
      Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff,
      Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell