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Just got home from the HKIFF Summer International Film Festival's gala opening, featuring the premiere of the opening film "Unbeatable" (激戰) by director Dante Lam.
The film is about MMA fighters and stars Nick Cheung and Eddie Peng. The film got a lot of attention because of the transformative exercise the leads have...Read more
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From this week's Tokyo trip.
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I'm a big proponent of the idea of tempered expectations. In terms of films, that means if you expect a movie to be bad, you're more likely to enjoy a movie, as you are avoiding disappointment, and if the movie doesn't completely blow, you may actually enjoy it (for not sucking as bad as you expected).
It was with very muted expectations that I went to see Andy Lau's new action/spy/heist thriller, titled "Switch" in English:
Last night I had the opportunity to go to the launch of the latest offering from Mini, the Paceman. It's a two door coupe 'crossover' available with AWD.
The event was out in Tsuen Wan, luckily Rex was able to drive us out directly because it started pouring rain right when we g...Read more
On our way back from Zhangjiajie, stopped at the Lo Wu Shopping area at the Shenzhen/HK border for a second. I never really shop here, but since it was raining, we ducked in on the way from the subway.
Check out these phony Vans they have on sale:
Last week HK had a four day weekend for Easter, so I took the opportunity to take a trip I have wanted to do for several years - a trip to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park ( 湖南张家界国家森林公园) in Hunan. Aka the landscape that was at least a partial inspiration for the geography on the planet Pandora in 'Avatar'.
When I first started going to China over 10 years ago, I spent a lot of time visiting the natural wonders of t...Read more
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