After This Our Exile: A Review

“If you’re going to do it, do it right,” as George Michael once sang. So I did. I legged it down to the Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei Wednesday night and bought my ticket to the 9pm showing of ‘After This Our Exile’ ~ Director’s Cut for last night (Thursday). Well, if you’re offering,

43rd Taiwan Film Awards

Ah-haaaaaa~ Gotcha, you bastards! Aaron Kwok won Best Actor at the Taiwan Film Awards last night, to the applause of the halls (including a certain number of groupies of my acquaintance. I would have loved to have gone, but could you see me boss giving me the day off to nip over to Taiwan?). For

Mid-Autumn Festival + other shite

Lots to mention so here we go: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節快樂!) ~ ta to my sister, who got me copy of “Costello Music” by The Fratellis this morning (so I can now wipe them downloaded mp3s from my iPod Shuffle) ~ had a lad in HMV count out my change Peter Kay-style (“there’s 20, 40,

Battle of the Mooncakes

Yeah, it’s nearly Mid-Autumn Festival again. This means (1) I’m looking forward to a day off and (2) the advertising began in earnest about four weeks ago. Yes, it’s Mooncake Wars all over again. Every year, on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, we get Mid-Autumn Festival (cos it’s in the middle of

Name ’em an shame ’em!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks to my mam, my dad, my three sisters for supporting me, the two Fionas in my life, my long-suffering mate at Uni, my Japanese friend, Our Kid and his missus, Bolton Friend and her man, Kwok Fu-Bob and his missus, Ji Ma Beng and his missus, my landlord,

Bollocks!

Ok, so Aaron Kwok didn’t take home the award for Best Actor last night… But his time will come ~ next year, when he’s nominated for Best Actor for “After This, Our Exile” (still shooting as we speak). Well, bloody hope so, anyway. Can’t believe he didn’t win this year, to be honest, but there

My kingdom for a ringtone…

Have to just draw your attention to this ~ it’s fab… Nice product placement, lads, well done! Anyway, where were we. Oh right. PCCW came finally and put in my broadband and TV, so as you can see, I’ve been posting all the stuff I wanted to before but couldn’t. Apart from that I’ve been

Don’t be shy, your mother wasn’t…

Why is it that in HK you can’t have your actors getting their kit off? Is it cos of some outdated idea that if you’re an untalented wee shite, you have to show your alternative talents? I still kind of adhere to this theory ~ I mean, fuck me but that’s why people like Mariah

What? No blogroll?

Yeah, yeah, stop tittering ~ I said BLOG-roll. Honestly, you lot… OK (yes, I prefer “OK” in capitals. Why? Because I defend the position that it’s short for “au quai”, and therefore in my eyes stands for something. The same way I think SARS should be written “SARS” and not “Sars”. Yes, South China Morning