Wednesday, November 25, 2015

[2015.11.26] FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 22 2015

For the week ending November 22 2015
Photos courtesy of Yahoo! Movies Hong Kong


10 KNOCK KNOCK
    d. Eli Roth
    Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas


 9 DAUGHTER
  Can : Seung Sun
  Lit : Possessed
    d. Chan Pang Chun
    Kara Wai Ying Hung, Kenny Wong Tak Bun,
      Yanny Chan Wing Yan, Petrina Fung Bo Bo
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 86 mins.
  Opening November 19 2015

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
    Sharon is an outstanding psychiatrist, and has a daughter named Jenny.

    Her patients are mostly wealthy people and public figures. Sharon wants Jenny to meet a public figure named Mr. Lin. However, Jenny does not like Mr. Lin at all. Sharon forces Jenny to attend a banquet with Mr. Lin, but she doesn’t want to go out with Mr. Lin and has some unusual behaviours, she stands on a table and wets herself. It embarrasses Sharon and affects her clinic business as everybody knows she has a mentally ill daughter.

    Sharon does not think that her daughter is mentally ill. However, desperately, Sharon turns to an exorcist priest for help. The priest affirms that Jenny has been demon possessed. As a psychiatrist, Sharon never believes in any theories that are not scientifically proven. However, Jenny's condition is getting worse, Sharon is forced to choose between science and religious belief.


 8 THE GREEN INFERNO
    d. Eli Roth
    Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns


 7 BRIDGE OF SPIES
    d. Steven Spielberg
    Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan


 6 SCOUT'S GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
    d. Christopher Landon
    Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan



 5 OUR TIMES
  Can : Ngor Dik Siu Nui Si Doi
  Lit : My Teenager Girl Era
    d. Chen Yu-Shan
    Vivian Sung, Dion Lee, Darren Wong
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 135 mins.
  Opening October 15 2015
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/oj6gYbvbc-0

[ HONG KONG MOVIES 6 ]
    We all had to live through and rise above the awkward years in high school, and regardless how long it may have been a distant past you wish to forget, there’s always a beautiful memory somewhere waiting to be awaken. A joyful moment that truly belongs to you. An ordinary and unnoticeable high-school girl, Truly, has a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. By a quirk of fate, Taiyu invited Truly to enter a pack for the losers in love, an “Association of the Dumped”. Their mission is to tear the golden couple apart and helped each other to get the ones they love. In the 90s when floppy discs is the most common way to transfer files, and Internet is connected through a dial-ups system. Truly met Taiyu. They missed, they confessed and they bid goodbye. Eighteen years later, when the trendiest things have become old memories, when Truly meets her ‘puppy love’ once again, will they be able to rekindle their friendship and relive again the good old times?



 4 SHE REMEMBERS, HE FORGETS
  Can : Na Yat Tin Ngor Moon Wui Fei
  Lit : When Can We Fly
  AKA : Cha Yut Dim Ngor Moon Wui Fei
  Lit : We Can Almost Fly
  AKA : HE REMEMBERS, SHE FORGETS
  AKA : Oi Dik Gung Yuen
  AKA : Root Of Love
    d. Adam Wong Sau Ping
    Miriam Yeung Chin Wa, Jan Lamb Hoi Fung,
      Gill Mohindepaul Singh (Kiu Bo Bo)
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 110 mins.
  Opening October 28 2015 at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
  Opening November 5 2015
  Trailer : https://youtu.be/CREm4BB_c9g

[ BROADWAY CIRCUITS ]
    Unfulfilled at work and dissatisfied with her marital life, a middle-aged woman attends a high school reunion and finds a floodgate of flashbacks of her salad days open before her mind’s eyes. She was inseparable with two boys 20 years ago but married one of them eventually. All the memories eventually zero in on one critical incident that changed her life and those of the boys forever.


 3 RETURN OF THE CUCKOO
  Can : Sup Yuet Chor Ng Dik Yuet Guong
  Lit : Moonlight of October 5th
    d. Patrick Kong (Yip Lim Sum)
    Julian Cheung Chi Lam, Charmaine Sheh Si Man, Nancy Sit Ka Yin,
      Kwok Fung, Steven Ma Chun Wai, Michael Tong Man Lung, Law Kar Ying
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 103 mins.
  Opening November 12 2015

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
    Since Kwan-Ho and Szeto Lai-Sun migrated to the US after marriage, Man-Cho, his business partner Wing and Wing’s daughter Tin-Tin decides to move back to Macau living with Aunty Q. While Kam-Sing comes to congratulate Aunty Q‘s marriage with her first love Mao, he is arrested on illegal casino operation and sentenced to seven years.

    Time flies by. Wing’s ex-wife suddenly turns up to claim Tin-Tin’s custody. Wing surrenders to her demand. Tin-Tin makes a promise to be Man-Cho’s wife in the future before leaving.

    One day, Man-Cho receives the news that Lai-Sun has died in a car accident, and soon a reticent Kwan-Ho returns to Macau solitarily.

    A few years later, when Kam-Sing is released, he decides to express his admiration for Kwan-Ho on his birthday, but Kwan-Ho turns him down. Kam-Sing has disappeared since then.

    Further years later, Tin-Tin is back and announces to be Man-Cho’s wife. Kwan-Ho feels heart aches and uneasy after hearing the news. At the same time, Kam-Sing also returns for real estate projects development as a senior executive of an MNC. While they are happy for the reunion, Man-Cho has been unexpectedly diagnosed that his throat cancer has spread to the brain, leaving him less than half year to live...


 2 SPECTRE
    d. Sam Mendes
    Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux


 1 THE HUNGRY GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2
    d. Francis Lawrence
    Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

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