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3.5/5 stars The prospect of Pass and Goal is not immediately appealing. A football-themed comedy with an old-fashioned premise about staying true to oneself, it features a modest cast that includes several inexperienced child actors and is directed by the filmmaker behind abysmal comedies like Lucky Fat Man (2017) and Love Detective (2015). Yet, to echo a key message from Jil Wo...
This is the 66th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. Few narratives in Hong Kong entertainment are as compelling as that of former erotic film icon Veronica Yip Yuk-hing. Her arc – from beauty pageant contestant to soft-core sensation, mainstream pop singer, respected actress and finally the wife of a tycoon – is more ...
The onset of the holidays means it is awards season in Hollywood. While plenty of this year’s contenders, including Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, have already opened in Hong Kong cinemas, the likes of Marty Supreme, starring best actor hopeful Timothée Chalamet, have yet to secure a release date. Similarly, the Hong Kong relea...
In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart from ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday. ABC will continue to broadcast the annual ceremony through 2028. That year will mark the 100th Oscars. But starting in 2029, YouTube will retain global rights t...
John Howe, the illustrator who brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s universe to life, is now inviting the world into his mind’s eye by setting up his studio in a medieval prison turned museum in Switzerland. The 68-year-old is famed for his interpretation of Tolkien’s literary work, which ultimately saw him serve as a concept artist on filmmaker Peter Jackson’s movie trilogies The Lord of t...
