Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, We are getting closer and closer to festival season. The Venice Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday. The Toronto International Film Festival begins two weeks from today on September 7. It’ll be interesting to see which celebrities show up to support their films – with waivers, of course, By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, There was a huge gathering of major movie stars in Hong Kong last week at the Filmart event for the presentation of the Emperor Motion Pictures 2023 slate of productions, featuring a rare appearance by Jackie Chan to announce that he will be producing and starring in New By Lainey • Mar 20, 2023 09:02 am
Andy Lau Fat & Andy Before Poker Stars and Party Poker and World Series of Poker, there was Hong Kong cinema. Hong Kong was obsessed with poker as pop culture well before it became standard 24/7 on television. Gamblers and gangsters have always been an entertainment storyline in Chinese cinema. When I was growing By Lainey • Dec 15, 2015 05:22 pm
Matt Damon Matt Damon’s ponytail…and Andy Lau! My head is exploding right now. Not because Matt Damon has a ponytail (although that’s some impressively thick hair, non?). But because Matt Damon and Andy Lau are shooting a movie together. Matt Damon and Andy Lau are at a press conference together. Matt Damon and Andy Lau are By Lainey • Jul 02, 2015 11:16 am
Cannes 2013 Best of Cannes 2013: Hong Kong on the Croisette Tony Leung came to support Carina Lau. She was kinda overdressed in purple Elie Saab at the photo call and wore white Elie Saab, with a split-back cape, on the carpet. You know I can’t hate on anything with a cape, even if it is the terminally boring Elie By Lainey • May 27, 2013 03:58 pm
LifestyleArticle The Ageless Andy Lau For all you Hong Kongers out there... Andy Lau is 50 now. 50! I just found Return Of The Condor Heroes on DVD. Please. Totally burned through it in 2 days. Anyway, you know that whole Asian Aging Process I’ve been talking about since I started this blog oh By Lainey • Apr 24, 2012 04:17 pm