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JAY'S EXTREME MAKEOVER

Posted on 19 Jan 2012

You probably won’t associate Mandopop singer Jay Chou with the likes of Donnie Yen or Jackie Chan, but that’s exactly the surprise the man hopes to give his fans with the release of his latest movie ‘The Viral Factor’. Not only did the 33-year-old Jay crop his hair short to adopt a grittier look for the movie, he also decided to risk life and limb together with his co-st ...

MX'S 10 BEST & WORST MOVIES OF 2011

Posted on 30 Dec 2011

JOHN'S 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2011 1. THE MUPPETS 2. 127 HOURS 3. THE TREE OF LIFE 4.YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE 5. THE ARTIST 6. BIUTIFUL 7. STARRY STARRY NIGHT 8. THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 9, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS ...

THAT 'MAGIC' FORMULA

Posted on 04 Dec 2011

How do you resurrect a franchise that’s been dormant for the past 20 years? With some Hollywood magic that’s how, veteran Hong Kong producer Raymond Wong revealed at a press conference to promote the release of ‘Magic to Win’, a reimagining of the popular ‘Happy Ghost’ series which spawned five films including the original from 1984 to 1991. As was typical fo ...

HORROR TABOO

Posted on 21 Oct 2011

The common adage goes that ‘it is better to be safe than sorry’- that was the advice some of the young actors in the new Singapore-Malaysia horror film ’23:59’ were reminded of when they first told their family that they were going to be flirting with ghosts. First-time Singaporean actor Lawrence Koh said: “When my mother found out that my first film project wo ...

THE 'REAL' DEAL

Posted on 20 Oct 2011

If you had a choice between watching ‘Real Steel’ in conventional 2D or IMAX, which would it be? You’d probably be thinking what the difference is between the two formats, notwithstanding the higher ticket price for IMAX. And frankly, we did not know better too- until we decided that we should compare one with the other to understand just how much more the extra $10 was worth. ...

THE FORTUNE BUDDIES

Posted on 09 Aug 2011

It was March 2010 when a new variety show called ‘Liza and the Three Gods’ made its debut on Hong Kong television starring veteran Liza Wang and three erstwhile supporting players Wong Cho-Lam, Louis Yuen and Johnson Lee who were known collectively as the ‘Fuk Luk Sau’ (or the ‘Fortune Buddies’ in English). With their impersonations of other celebrities such ...

GALLANTS

Posted on 06 Aug 2011

In this age where big-budget Mainland China co-productions are the norm, veteran actor Gordon Lam Ka-tung decided to take the road less travelled by making the low-budget true-blue Hong Kong film ‘Gallants’ his first producing gig. Indeed, the actor best known for his supporting roles in Johnnie To movies, as well as the much lauded ‘Ip Man’, said that he so loved the sc ...

KEEPING IT REAL

Posted on 03 Aug 2011

Julien Leclercq was only 14 when a group of four heavily armed Muslim terrorists hijacked an Air France plane in Algiers bound for France. He says the images he saw on television of the GIGN team (the elite counter-terrorism paramilitary unit of the French National Gendarmerie) storming the plane to rescue the hostages are firmly etched in his memory. Of course, he is not alone- an estimated 21 ...

'YEN-MISTRY'

Posted on 19 Jul 2011

Call it ‘Yen-mistry’- that was what Peter Chan felt with Donnie Yen on the set of ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’. Peter was producer of the Teddy Chan film which starred Donnie, and there was an instant chemistry between the two which paved the way for their first collaboration, the martial arts epic ‘Wu Xia’. Indeed, so strong was this ‘Yen-mistry&rsqu ...

THE PERPETUAL FIGHT

Posted on 19 Jul 2011

There are few, if any, actors that can rival Donnie Yen’s current position as an action star in Asia, but the actor, who turns 48 this year, is not resting on his laurels. In town to promote his latest big-budget martial arts epic ‘Wu Xia’, Donnie says that he constantly pushes himself to take on different types of characters, in order that he be able to offer something differ ...

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