Looking good, Hua Yang! The upcoming Summer period Taiwan movie Hua Yang by acclaimed director Chou Mei Ling has just wrapped filming and the first batch of official stills have been released. Starring Jerry Yan as a pirate, Joe Cheng as a musician, and Michelle Chen and Ivy Chen as a pair of fraternal twin opera singers, I’m guessing we’re … Continue reading →
Gulp. Son Ye Jin is so pretty she sometimes renders me speechless. Clearly I have a girl crush on her. I might lament the Heavens for making something this beautiful, since it’s so not fair, but then she’s a fantastical actress so she just adds enjoyment to my screen that makes me totally cool with the unfairness of it all. … Continue reading →
Yun Zhong Ge (Song in the Clouds) is Tong Hua’s best period novel to date. Bu Bu Jing Xin was exquisite, but then she wrote the simple and sweeping Da Mo Yao likely to cheer herself up afterwards. Everything in DMY worked itself out too easily, but what if there was a love story so thrilling and gutwrenching that it … Continue reading →
Do you guys know what empowerment entails? It means doing something rather than just complaining. My imagination is mine, my facility with words are mine, and my love for Da Mo Yao is all mine. Rather than have it taken away from me with hack drama casting, I choose to keep the novel all mine. I was waiting for a Jiu … Continue reading →
I was so moo-ry last night a bunch of friends texted me to make sure I wasn’t about to leap off the proverbial balcony. Moo-ry is a word used in the Koala household, it means to be mopey and crabby. What can I say, I like coining my own lingo. One friend said this “Now you know how I feel … Continue reading →
It feels like forever since I’ve seen Kang Ji Hwan in public. The filming for his upcoming movie Detective Cha with Sung Yuri has been super low key with barely any BTS goodies trickling out. He did hold a fan meeting in Japan, but other than that the man apparently wants to play peek-a-boo with me. Luckily, Ji Hwan’s fans … Continue reading →
Dear Da Mo Yao: I’m breaking up with you. It’s not me, it’s you. And I’m not the least bit sorry. I still love you, but you are owned by the Death Star and I refuse to be part of this atrocity of a charade of a drama. Tangren is a lying liar who lies, and if I continue to … Continue reading →
I regret having doubts about Yoochun and Han Ji Min together, or even making fun of the concept of Rooftop Prince. This drama may still suck, but I am now totally obsessed with watching it. It looks promising in a fish-out-of-water way and with tons of wiggle room for real emotional development. It’s like a reverse Bu Bu Jing Xin, … Continue reading →
People. I hereby decree that Fondant Garden must be watched. This is the drama that’s pulled me out of my drama slump and period novel fascination. After a slew of meh to ehhh dramas, who knew that a totally under the radar TW idol drama from the godmother of TW idol dramas (Producer Angie Cai) would hit me that hard … Continue reading →
This is not what I was expecting. The first teaser for The King 2 Hearts is out and it appears action-packed more than comedic. I think it’s really hard to do an action thriller drama, and the carcasses of so many failed such K-dramas litter the landscape. It’s also claimed as victims many an actor I love. On the upside, the … Continue reading →
We’ve had drunken kissing, passionate life-and-death kissing, and now we’re getting some angry kissing? I can handle that, so bring it on! Da Mo Yao is quite an active novel, and really a marked departure from the simmering held-in-check intensity of Bu Bu Jing Xin (and also from the snowballing angst that is Yun Zhong Ge). I chalk it up to the characters … Continue reading →
GRAH! Ladies and gent(s)…..presenting the first ever official still from the Da Mo Yao drama adaptation. Tangren just released the first and only (as of now) picture of Liu Shi Shi as Yu Jin (I’m calling her Yu Jin because this outfit is clearly from her Xiong Nu days, where she still went by that name). I’m dying to see … Continue reading →
Wai so cute, cutie pies? The upcoming painfully named The King 2 Hearts has just released its first batch of official stills for the drama and I continued to find it such a tempting and tasty morsel just waiting to lure me in. I’m been in a drama drought lately, thought it’s mostly my own fault since I simply have no … Continue reading →