Updated January 20th, 2010

New year, same old stuff
Posted 01-20-2010
Not that it really matters, but this week LoveHKFilm returns from its 3 week exile, created partially by a 2 week vacation and partially by our recent Top 50 Hong Kong Films of the Decade reader vote. We're already planning another vote plus the yearly LoveHKFilm Awards. Sometime in there we also plan to write reviews of all the Lunar New Year films. Hopefully it won't kill us.

This week, belated reviews of Jay Chou's Treasure Hunter and the Golden Horse Award-winning Cow, starring the world's most awesome actor, Huang Bo. Calvin McMillin reviews twin Singapore movies Where Got Ghost and 12 Lotus. Some other movie gets reviewed two.

Next time: the Simon Yam double feature of Bad Blood and Black Ransom.

TOP 50 HONG KONG FILMS OF THE AUGHTS
Posted 12-28-09
LoveHKFilm readers submitted their votes over the past 2 weeks and we're announcing the results now! Every day this week we'll reveal more of the Top 50 until we reach #1, which we guarantee is not My Wife is 18. Along the way you're free to speculate, complain or applaud at whatever is revealed. It you're really bothered, we have this advice: vote next time. That should happen in 2019.

Merry Christmas, we're now done for 2009
Posted 12-25-09
This week, we publish a review of The Storm Warriors. Our review follows the 100-150 you can already find on the Internet, which would totally suck if we were in some sort of a competition. We're not, so we still rule.

In 2009, LoveHKFilm published 131 reviews, with 73 written by that Kozo guy. He wrote 88 in 2008, so he's ashamed to even show his face at the annual dinner of Hong Kong movie reviewers. Not getting an invitation is also an issue.

We hope you've enjoyed our 2009 coverage of Hong Kong and other Asian films. We were okay with it, though at one point we did consider quitting and starting a website about Slurpee machines in Hong Kong. It could still happen.

Next time: A new year, but the same old attitude. We'd apologize but it wouldn't be sincere.

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- The Triumphant General Rouge
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Newer Korea reviews:
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- The Good, The Bad, The Weird
- Haeundae
- Hello Schoolgirl
- The Insadong Scandal
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- Radio Dayz
- The Scam
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- Someday
- Tazza: The High Rollers
- Thirst

Other PanAsia reviews:
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- 4BIA
- Blood: The Last Vampire
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- The Maid
- Men in White
- Three...Extremes
- Where Got Ghost?

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