Monthly Archives: January 2005

Review: The Wedding Banquet 0

Another older film this time as I catch up with my DVD collection, this time Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet. * THE WEDDING BANQUET * Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Liechtenstein Director: Ang Lee – 1993 – USA An early Ang Lee film, he made this one year after his debut film, Pushing Hands, [...]

Say It In My SayBox 0

A new addition appears on the right here: my new SayBox. After a weekend of shopping and work, another new toy was in order. So leave me a message or two in the box on the right if you like!

Movie Review of 2004 0

2004 wasn’t much of a going-to-the-cinema year for me, more a watching-DVDs year. And because Hong Kong and Chinese films tend to be fill my DVD library more, I’m going to mention a few highlights of 2004 from out East. It has been a fairly mixed year. We’ve only had a handful of what I [...]

Reviews: Throw Down / Princess Blade 0

Two films recently seen, one of which will affect my review of 2004, so keep on holding on!   * THROW DOWN* Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Yin Dir: Johnnie To – 2004 – Hong Kong Szeto (Louis Koo) is an ex-judo master turned nightclub owner, but with plenty of debt problems since supposedly falling [...]

Party not over yet! 0

* OLD FACES * I’ve been at L.E.K. now for over 3 years now, starting in September 2001, when all the new joiners in Europe and the US came to London for ‘orientation’. Three years on and only a few of us are still here, not surprisingly, as 3 years is typically a very long [...]