One of the more entertaining movies I watched in 2022 was TW horror-comedy Marry My Dead Body, which I checked out for Greg Hsu (Hsu Guang Han) and the premise but left with a new appreciation for second male lead Austin Lin (Lim Bo Hong). It was a brilliant casting of the two very similar looking actors in straight/gay and … Continue reading →
This is Golden Week in Mainland China, the whole week off celebrating National Day on October 1 and a great time to release movies second only to the lunar new year holiday break. All eyes are on the box office and the historical and patriotic war film The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death came in first to no … Continue reading →
So all the vibes I was getting from Zhao Lu Si filming C-drama Love’s Ambition with Willian Chan was that it was a romance drama. So to hear that it’s adapted from the novel The Unseen Sister (大乔小乔 Da Qiao Xiao Qiao) and that the novel is getting a big screen adaptation with Zhao Li Ying and Xin Zhi Lei … Continue reading →
So advertising a movie is an art because you have short snippets to interest the audience and if there is a twist also keeping it under wraps. The upcoming modern romance movie Love in the Big City is being criticized by K-netizens after the new posters and previews are out for majorly misleading viewers with its promos. From the promos … Continue reading →
So ever since Goblin in 2016 the two male leads Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook have been reunited for casual hangouts and even entertainment activity collaborations showing off their bromance and doubling up the good looking Korean man visuals. Seeing the onscreen and offscreen collab of Hyun Bin with Lee Dong Wook as the two attended the Harbin movie … Continue reading →
I love seeing so many talented K-stars in one movie and bonus points for this one getting lots of attention thanks to male lead Hyun Bin who keeps on picking interesting and challenging roles. The movie is called Harbin and is of course set in the titular city but in the early 1900’s era when the region was on the … Continue reading →
Next week the K-movie The Land of Happiness will arrive in South Korean theaters and with it conclude the acting career of top actor Lee Seon Kyun. It is the last project in his oeuvre and the second to last movie Project Silence was released last month in July. It’s been a bad summer in the SK box office and … Continue reading →
he South Korean box office. The movie is called Revolver and reads like a fresh take on Lady Vengeance. Starring Jeon Do Yeon as an innocent woman who goes to jail in exchange for a pay off, she goes on the rampage after she’s released from prison and finds the promised cash not there. Her target is played by Ji … Continue reading →
HK-star Stephen Chow has stopped acting for the last two decades but has become a successful and noted director with a string of hits under his belt. His Shaolin Soccer was one of the biggest box office Asian movies of all time and now will get a sequel or follow up with an all-female soccer cast. It’s a huge deal … Continue reading →
A recent article on the state of the South Korean box office reveals that it’s been a terrible first half of 2024 so far heading into the end of June. Other than award winning and box office success Exhuma that kicked off the year with a bang, it’s been one flop after another and even the usual big names that … Continue reading →
So it’s a Moon kinda night at the VIP movie premiere and afterparty for the star studded sci-fi movie Wonderland starring Tang Wei, Jung Yumi, Park Bo Gum, Suzy, and Choi Woo Shik. Many cast members from two hit dramas The Moon Embraces the Sun and Moonlight Drawn by Clouds were there together and it made for quite a picture … Continue reading →
So the popcorn munching is not done yet with the C-movie She’s Got No Name, which premiered last week at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and seemed to be off to a smooth start after a lot of filming ups and downs. But days later it’s back in gossip columns with the biggest issue being significant parts of the movie … Continue reading →
The cast and director of the shown at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival C-movie She’s Got No Name went for the obligatory photo call the next day after their red carpet walk. Once again lead actress Zhang Zi Yi was the spotlight but she was surrounded by such a solid cast and her director Peter Chan, with everyone dressing so … Continue reading →
