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Chinese Title: 換樂無窮 English Title: Wish and Switch Genre: Modern comedy, supernatural Producer: Lam Chi Wah (A Pillow Case of Mystery I&II, The Four, Sisters of Pearl) Episodes: 20 RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 3, 2012 Cast Myolie Wu Selena Li Johnson Lee Vincent Wong Kiki Sheung Angela Tong Synopsis By accident, FAN SHUK-HEUNG (Myolie Wu) visits [...]
Chinese Title: 我的如意狼君 English Title: Bottled Passion Genre: Pre-Modern, Romance, Revenge Producer: Lee Tim Shing (Point of No Return, Rosy Business, No Regrets) Episodes: 21 RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 6, 2011 Cast Niki Chow Raymond Wong Joel Chan Elaine Yiu Katy Kung Kwok Fung Rebecca Chan Ching Ho Wai Yoyo Chen Jack Wu Raymond Cho Claire [...]
English Title: When Heaven Burns Chinese Title: 天與地 Episodes: 30 Producer: Jonathan Chik Kei Yee (Producer of “Secret of the Heart”, “At the Threshold of an Era”, “War and Beauty”, etc.) Genre: Modern Suspense Costume Fitting: September 21, 2009 Filming Date: September 2009 – January 2010 RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 2011 Cast: Bowie Lam Moses Chan Kenny Wong Charmaine Sheh Maggie Siu [...]
There are some good ideas knocking around in Hong Kong genre auteur Johnnie To’s multi-strand financial crisis dramedy- but they’re swamped by an inept script that keeps getting bogged down in details and forgetting the big dramatic picture. The film does have the merit of rendering, with a certain ironic detachment, the human side of [...]
Felix Chong’s direction is a bit shoddy, but this triad satire has enough funny and familiar stuff to warrant it a thumbs up. Seeing Jordan Chan and Ekin Cheng play against type is half the amusement. The Infernal Affairs parodies are good too. Roast Pork (Jordan Chan) is a chef and runs a successful restaurant chain in [...]