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Sean Tierney
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I really enjoyed
Overheard. It was an interesting story that was well-told. I can’t be so generous about
Overheard 2.
The scrīpt and the plot contrivances turned me off, even though there were some good performances.
But obviously it did well enough to carry the franchise forward.
Overheard 3/竊聽風雲3 opens with footage made to l...Read more
I have one rule for movies: entertain me. I really don’t care about budget, or cast, or anything else as much as I do being entertained.
I’ve disliked some very popular films, and I’m a big fan of movies a lot of people don’t care for.
Bet to Basic/打雀英雄傳 (2006) is one of those films.
An extremely cheap, resoundingly local film,
**...Read more
I was invited to a screening of Dennis Chan’s
37/三十七 by the director.
He knows what I do, but he invited me anyway.
“I’m not scared of him!”
37/三十七 tells the story of an urbanite woman and her daughter who end up in Mongolia.Read more
I’d heard a lot about
Aberdeen/香港仔 before I watched it. I didn’t see it during the HKIFF, but I did see the premiere ceremony.
Which is, admittedly, of no use to either you or me.
Aberdeen/香港仔 is a story about a family that have some, uh, issues, not just between each other but on their own.
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Delete My Love/Delete愛人 is the latest film from Patrick Kong, who is generally not one of my favorite directors.
The movie stars Wong Cho Lam, whose usual onscreen persona is one of the most irritating things in the movies I see.
1972 was a long time ago.
Cars were so big they had zip codes.
It’s hard, sometimes, to look back at things from the past and see them the same way.
A 1972 Plymouth is still a big-ass car, but not as big as it was when I was 6.
But sometimes that’s ...Read more
A boat-dwelling family takes in a Eurasian baby and raises him as one of their own.
These people were traditionally social outsiders, so they accept the baby much more easily than others.
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In Dante Lam’s Fire of Conscience/火龍 (2010) Leon Lai plays a cop whose pregnant wife has been murdered.
He uses his job to avoid the truth of his situation, and it seems to be eating him alive.
Richie Ren plays ano...Read more
I realize my reviews are usually pretty flippant, humorous, or downright insulting.
Hey, you go with your strengths, right?
Part of the reason for that is me, and part of it is the movies I watch.
But every now and then, I see a movie that makes me think the nicest thing I c...Read more
If we don't support the movies that deserve it, we get the movies that we deserve.
