Good Karma
by Scott Murphy
“Iwannagoswimminginyourinfinitypool! Iwannagoswimminginyourinfinitypool! Iwannagoswimminginyourinfinitypool!” At least, that’s what she seemed to be saying. You have to understand the circumstances here. It was late, 4am late. We were with dozens of very...
Dec 1 2006 - 12:00am
If I was a magician, I’d say “abracadabra,” weave a quick spell, and poof, the entire city would be sitting in a cinema watching “The Prestige,” a terrific film about dueling illusionists in turn-of-the-century London. Once again, director Christopher Nolan has taken...
Oct 26 2006 - 10:27am
Watching the “The Diary” you can't help but wish they’d lose the key and throw out the book. Despite some noteworthy technical stunts and individual acting efforts, this hodgepodge of juvenile script writing is part thriller, part horror, part ridiculous and a pinch boring....
Oct 26 2006 - 10:22am
I was brought up opposite Victoria Park in an old, five-storey building that’s no longer in existence. We lived on the top floor with another family.
My mother got married at a young age to my father, who came from a very poor family in Shanghai. He met her in Shanghai and brought her to Hong...
Oct 19 2006 - 11:00pm
Don’t look for anything deep in Johnnie To’s latest offering, “Exiled.” Dialogue is sparse, the gazes are penetrating, and everybody is just itching to pull their guns out and go ballistic. But if it’s style you want, look no further, for this is the closest Hong Kong...
Oct 19 2006 - 2:40pm
Finding dozens of computer monitors on Tai Long Wan Beach (as they did last week) isn’t such a strange sight for volunteer trash cleaners. In the five years that Ecovision volunteers have participated in International Coastal Cleanup Day, they’ve found, among other items, washing...
Oct 12 2006 - 11:00pm
Just shy of a masterpiece, “The Departed” is one American remake that works on its own. Auteur Martin Scorsese has taken Andrew Lau’s 2002 cop-and-triad thriller, “Infernal Affairs,” and turned it into a violent, vulgar, gritty, lengthy, realistic look at Boston’...
Oct 6 2006 - 12:13pm
I remember my childhood. It was spent in the New Territories in Yuen Long.
My father worked on Hong Kong Island in construction when I was a child. He would set up buildings, that kind of thing. Every summer holiday I would go there for about two weeks. It was the country boy going to the urban...
Oct 5 2006 - 11:00pm
