Top Reads Tony Leung: Tiger wins Lion One of the best moments out of the Venice Film Festival this weekend was Tony Leung, a f-cking legend, receiving the Golden Lion Award for his body of work. The work, by now, should be well known globally. In The Mood For Love, Hard Boiled, Chungking Express, Lust, Caution, The By Lainey • Sep 06, 2023 03:12 pm
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
Music Intro for July 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, I first posted about NewJeans right at the beginning of the year. It was six months after their debut – and it’s still only been exactly a year since they came on the scene – and they’d already exploded in popularity with “Hype Boy”. That momentum continued with By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 09:22 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
TV Updates Intro for October 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Big announcement yesterday! The Joy Luck Club is getting a sequel! A “Joy Luck Club 2" is happening! The original cast is in talks to return to their roles as mothers and grandmothers. The film will also highlight a new generation of Asian female-identifying actors, from granddaughters By Lainey • Oct 13, 2022 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu and Tony Leung in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may be Marvel’s first film centered on an East Asian hero, but it is also yet another origin story for a Marvel hero, though one that benefits from the ten or so origin stories that came before it. In almost every By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 12:34 pm
Top Reads Tony Leung: A Master in GQ We are 48 hours away from the premiere of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Over the last few weeks, as we approach the release, if you’ve been visiting this site often, you’ve been reading me hyperventilate about the film’s villain, Wenwu, played By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 11:31 am
Gorgessity Tony Leung: Start the Campaign Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens in ten days. This is a big movie, Marvel’s first theatrical release since the pandemic began and its first blockbuster with an East Asian lead superhero. So, of course, casting Shang-Chi and finding the actor best-suited to carry By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week, when I posted about Gemma Chan, The First Eternal, I wrote that it was thrilling to me that the MCU’s next two movies, expected to be blockbusters, were led by two East Asian performers. While Marvel’s Eternals, premiering in November, is an ensemble, Kevin By Lainey • Aug 18, 2021 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tony Leung is Shang-Chi’s bad dad A new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, this one showing off even more Tony Leung—inject that man’s presence into my veins, please—and Michelle Yeoh, but less Awkwafina. The first trailer was the introduction to the style of Shang-Chi, and this By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu has fists of fury as Shang-Chi The teaser trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here and it is a short, beautiful pastiche of homages to classic Asian cinema ranging from Bruce Lee to Keanu. This is our first glimpse of Simu Liu in action as Shang-Chi and I am an even By Sarah • Apr 19, 2021 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love at 20 Today is the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong premiere of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. The film, which debuted in Cannes, made Tony Leung the festival’s Best Actor, the first Hong Kong actor so honored. In the Mood for Love is not exactly Wong’s By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 02:59 pm
Top Reads Team Shang-Chi! If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you know that Marvel business is usually Sarah business, unless of course it’s a post about us crying over missing the Avengers. And she probably would be writing this post if not for the fact that she’s so chill, By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shang-Chi Fat Choy! As mentioned in today’s open, Marvel confirmed this weekend at Comic-Con that Simu Liu has been cast in the lead role in the upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The film will be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. So we have a director and we have By Lainey • Jul 22, 2019 10:03 am
Tony Chiu Wai Leung Intro for June 29, 2017 Dear Gossips, As mentioned yesterday in What Else? the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscar Academy, released its new list of 774 members, a new record. After the nominations were announced in 2015, it was April Reign who created the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. The hashtag came back a By Lainey • Jun 29, 2017 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hard Boiled Tom Hiddleston I saw a headline the other day about Warner Bros developing Hard Boiled with Tom Hiddleston to star and my first reaction was… WHAAAAAAAAAT??? Followed by outrage, like the kind that explodes on Twitter every 5 seconds. Hard Boiled?!? THE Hard Boiled? Turns out there’s a comic book called By Lainey • Nov 24, 2016 11:23 am
