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The use of pop singers and singers in films has a long and varied career, spanning decades on nearly every continent as the need for boosting sales by tapping into pop culture is fairly obvious. Among the latest to do so is Anson Kong, utilizing his chart-topping success in Cantopop icons Mirror and his solo success to launch a career in the film industry. After several other projects, he now turns to the Horror genre with the grisly debut from director Nate Ki, “Back Home,” having its North American premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival.

Back Home is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

Heung Wing (Anson Kong) left his native Hong Kong for Canada long ago, hoping to escape his ability to see ghosts. When his mother Jan's (Bai Ling) suicide attempt leaves her in a coma he must return to the unstable place he once called home.

College can be a time of great change in one's life: going it alone for the first time in training for the real world. The inclusion of the year in the title of Liu Jian's third feature “Art College 1994” is necessary in that it sets the scene for a changing time in China in terms of pop culture and, of course, art.

Back Home is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

Two roommates, Xiaojun (Dong Zijian) and Zhifei (Chizi) are art students who spend their days procrastinating, discussing the philosophy of art and the changing scene from classic to Western-influenced modern. Similarly, vocal student Hong (Papi) and piano student Lili (Zhou Dongyu) discuss their futures and possible marriages.

The two pairs mingle, with potential romantic liaisons hinted at, though their hypothetical, philosophical conversations play out in reality, as they come to terms with their relationship to art and each other.

Brothers Osborne live it up every way they can in “Sun Ain’t Even Gone Down Yet,” a bright and boisterous track from their upcoming self-titled album, out September 15.

On the tune, singer Tj Osborne paints a hard-partying picture of drinking hard and living fast over a funky-tonk backdrop of guitars and thwapping drums. Then he and his guitarist brother John join their voices to finish the tableau: “If a cold libation’s any indication, we’re gonna have a hell of a night,” they sing. “The day’s about...