The calm before the storm
Posted 8-13-08
This is actually the easy part of the schedule. Only three reviews this week, but stuff will soon be piling up faster than you can say "film festival". Yep, we're going to check out the Summer Hong Kong International Film Festival, which promises a few new films. However, in October there's the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, which excites us because everything is Asian and showing on the Broadway Circuit, where you can happily reserve your seats. The importance of this detail is beyond measure.

Anyway, we finally a Hong Kong movie around here: La Lingerie, starring soft plastic screen goddess Stephy Tang. In case you're one of those people who think Hong Kong is dead, you can also read about Mongol or Kamen Rider The Next. We're all about choice.

Win a year of Dragon Dynasty DVDs
Posted 8-04-08
Everyone likes DVDs. We think. Anyway, if you drop by this site you likely care for Asian Cinema DVDs, in which case the Dragon Dynasty DVDs suit you. Now you can expand - or even start - your collection. Genius Production is running a sweepstakes where 2 lucky winners can take home a full year's worth of Dragon Dynasty DVDs, including possibly the upcoming 2-disc special edition of Fist of Legend. Click the link to get more info and enter. Only US residents are eligible to win. Sorry.

No Hong Movies this time
Posted 8-04-08
We have a backlog of non-Hong Kong movie reviews sitting around the LoveHKFilm offices, so instead of letting them pile up as we wait for new Hong Kong movies, we've decided to just post them up. Usually our plan is to anchor each site update with a new Hong Kong movie, but since there are none, we're just posting whatever we want. Times are tough.

Stuff this time: Kozo offers his take on the Hollywood-raids-China production The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor as well as the Korean romance Lovers of Six Years. JMaruyama provides a look at the latest Hayao Miyazaki film, Ponyo on the Cliff. It's back to Korea for Kevin Ma's reviews of Fate and A Tale of Legendary Libido. Last but not least, Sanjuro reviews the 2006 Japanese film Retribution.

Next time: La Lingerie. Maybe we'll update one of the blogs, too.

Hong Kong Cinema's bleak future
Posted 8-04-08
The inestimable Tim Youngs has written an article for Time Magazine about the current and future state of Hong Kong Cinema. It's a fascinating read that covers local film directors, China, censorship, and the bleak future of Hong Kong film. Give it a read if you have the chance.

Ekin Cheng wins acting award
Posted 7-29-08
This is a shocker, but a pleasant one. A Man Called Ekin has just won an acting award, at the 12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. The film: Rule Number One. The other award winner: Shawn Yue. The fallout: mass hysteria on Ekin Cheng fan boards, and the subsequent eating of crow by the Powers That Be at LoveHKFilm.com. We would love to say that we always had faith that Ekin Cheng would win an acting award - but if we said that, we would be lying through our teeth. Honestly, this is totally unexpected to us. It's as big a surprise as an Edison Chen career comeback. Well, not really. Edison coming back would be a bigger - and also unpleasant - shock. in other news, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Carina Lau just got married. Also, Hell froze over.

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