tag archives: 2012

Cold War (2012): Conspiratorial Genre

29th Jan, 2013

Cold War (2012): Conspiratorial Genre

This star-jammed film is a remarkable production in 2012 with decent performance by all actors. As an action drama genre film, it successfully delivers a compelling story about executive-level rivalry in police department. Still, it loses to Infernal Affairs in this genre. Cold War (2012) (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) Product Title: Cold War (2012) (DVD) […]

Due West: Our Sex Journey (2012): Misleading Murakami

21st Jan, 2013

Due West: Our Sex Journey (2012): Misleading Murakami

With the popular Internet novel Tungkun Forest as adapted screenplay, this ambitious film follows original story closely, such as those Murakami style narrations, which will be favoured by hardcore fans. Nevertheless, I have to say it failed to turn a popular fiction to motion pictures, where a solid filming and directing skill is required, like […]

The Bounty (2012): Humour Overbearing

8th Jan, 2013

The Bounty (2012): Humour Overbearing

The partnership of Chapman To Man-Chat and Fiona Sit Hoi-Kei is good as usual. The appearance of respected actors Alex Man Chi-Leung and Michael Hui Koon-Man is a great surprise. The retro stylish bounty hunter story by screenwriter Fung Chih-Chiang is quite creative. Nevertheless, this film really has a big potential which is just failed […]

2012 Financial Crisis for Dummies Like Me

23rd Feb, 2012

2012 Financial Crisis for Dummies Like Me

They say the great bubble is gone, next financial disaster has come. But for finance idiot like me, such a thing sounds earthquake prediction. Probably this is the way the financial world ends, not with a bang but a whimper… Nevertheless, we may at least entertain ourselves with some interesting facts, before reading any heartbreaking headline tomorrow morning. In the recent […]

Cup’s Ready

6th Jun, 2006

Cup’s Ready

The most impressive advantage of Microsoft‘s “Windows Genuine Advantage” is, it gonna place a nice tray on your system’s downright task bar, and say “you may be a victim of software counterfeiting….” politely in pop-up, if you don’t care about the copyrights which Uncle Bill Gates’ struggling with. For more to WGA, you’ll get to […]