(UK) History/Romance. Directed by Madonna. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D’Arcy, Oscar Isaac, Richard Coyle. Category IIB. 119 minutes. Opens Jul 12.
A divorced and ambitious American woman marries a powerful Englishman and ascends into British high society—who...
Some people are natural at drawing or painting things, and although I was a creative person, I wasn’t quite a natural as such. The notion of being an artist never occurred to me at a young age; it only happened gradually.
Initially, I had this vague idea that I wanted to do graphic design,...
(USA) Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field. Category IIA.
Arriving just five years after the completion of Sam Raimi’s original screen trilogy, the reboot of the “Spider-Man” franchise seems to owe its...
D: Our father was an Italian sculptor and also taught at an art academy in Pisa. In 1936, a company hired him to do quality control for some marble constructions in Shanghai, and a couple of years later he moved to Hong Kong. On a trip to Macau, he fell in love with the place, so he settled down...
(USA) Drama. Directed by Paul Weitz. Starring Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby, Wes Studi, Lili Taylor. Category IIB. 102 minutes. Opened Jun 21.
Growing up with a writer father ain’t easy; I know it because I have one. But growing up with an absent writer-wannabe...
(Korea) Drama. Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. Starring Gong Yoo, Jeong Yu-mi, Baek Seung-hwan. Category III. 125 minutes. Opened Jun 21 (exclusively at UA Cinemas).
Based on Korean author Gong Ji-young’s online novel “Dogani,” an exposé piece charting the real-life events of...
HK Magazine: Were you born into an artistic family?
Will Yun-lee: I guess you can say I was born into an artistic family in the sense that my father was one of the first Taekwondo Masters to come to the United States in the late 60s and opened schools all across the US. But our creativity was more...
(USA) Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Guy Pearce. Category IIB.
Just like the outer space in which it’s set, “Prometheus” is a thing of breathtaking beauty and wonder—and not without a...
(UK) Directed by Lasse Hallström. Starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Amr Waked. Category IIA.
Directing a rom-com takes skill, but directing a political satire into a rom-com takes dedication. And Lasse Hallström, the Swedish filmmaker with an impulse to sweeten...
