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The long, punishing arm of China's censorship board still hangs heavy over the career of mainland filmmaker Ning Hao. The once-exciting auteur turns in another safe, audience-friendly offering with Breakup Buddies, suggesting his penance for the acerbic No Man's Land...

Chinese director Ning Hao has won a legion of fans at home - and a decent sized cult around the globe - thanks to his quirky sense of humor, an element typically woven into stories based in other genres, and...

Cold War, one of Hong Kong's best crime thrillers in recent years, has dominated this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, winning a total of 9 awards: Best Film, Best Director (Longman Leung, Sunny Luk Kim Ching), Best Screenplay (Longman Leung,...

China's record-smashing Lost in Thailand opens in limited release in the United States tomorrow, February 8, searching for an audience that may respond to a comic road trip that "talks about the struggles of the middle class and the grassroots,...

The nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards were announced earlier today, and predictably, star-studded cop drama Cold War scored 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director nods for its first-time helmers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. More...

Comic actor Xu Zheng's directorial debut broke a slew of box office records to become the most successful Chinese language film of all-time on home soil. But despite slick production values and a strong cast, Lost in Thailand is a...

Writer / director / star / producer Xu Zheng has just set the bar phenomenally high for himself, absolutely shattering a literal handful of Chinese box office records with his debut directorial effort Lost In Thailand. Best known to fans...

LOVE IN THE BUFF director Pang Ho-Cheung is one of the most interesting directors working in the Hong Kong film industry today. His incredible wit and undeniable talent are reflected in his varied filmography, which includes penning the story of...

Thanks to our friends at Dream Movie Australia, we have FIVE double passes for the new Pang Ho Cheung film LOVE IN THE BUFF to give away to our Australian readers! This film is the sequel to the 2010 Hong...

(Giving this review a bump as the film enjoys its official world premiere tonight as opening film of the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival) Writer-director Pang Ho Cheung's 2010 comedy LOVE IN A PUFF was something of a happy...

As local director Pang Ho Cheung is gearing up to premiere two new films at this month's Hong Kong International Film Festival, international distributor China Lion has announced that it already has one of them scheduled for release in North...

Two petty criminals walk into a twenty-four-hour supermarket during the night shift, hold the employees hostage and take their place behind the cash register, funnelling the profits into their own pockets. No, it's not a Chinese 'remake' of Kim...