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The use of the handicapped and disabled in cinema is a tricky subject, not wanting to let the physical disability serve as a means of exploiting, demeaning, or lowering the person's on-screen attributes into being a lesser figure than the other participants who don't suffer from this condition. The horror genre has provided memorable characters in it's history that have a handicap to positive and uplifting effect, which is the route taken here with James Hung's newest creature feature “Detrimental.” This shows off the handicapped being instrumental to stopping the carnage around them in addition to being a fun monster movie in it's own right.

“Detrimental” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative

Living in the year 2070, miner Raven (Vincent Wong) works with the other members of his team, Chef (Lau Shun), Ghost (Kenneth Chan), Kip (Thor Lok), Scotch (Tony Wu), Cain (Marx Cheung), and Dr. Tu...

The first ever feature film produced by the Hong Kong Baptist University, “Pretty Heart” is a timely discursive take on the increasingly more competitive arena of education. Unlike Nattawut Poonpiriya’s “Bad Genius,” however, which is a razor-sharp, heart-thumping romp on the nuts and bolts of students’ modus operandi and motivations behind wholesale cheating, “Pretty Heart” dissects the pressure to excel by humanizing all the people involved in preparing the city’s secondary school students for a test that will significantly impact their future.

Pretty Heart is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema

The film interweaves three storylines, that of between English literature teacher Chloe Lee and the estranged relationship she has with her father, Lee Lung Kei, a principal of a cram center, her blossoming romance with her father’s top tutor K.K. Ho, and the relationship they all have with the kids they teach, particularly that with Shu Ting,...

Hong Kong’s Entertaining Power reporting sales prices have returned to pre-Covid levels.

Hong Kong’s Entertaining Power has sold four anticipated star-led features to Taiwan’s Sky Films in a package deal closed during the Cannes market - where prices are understood to be returning to pre-Covid levels.

The titles include Lee Po Cheung’s As It Burns, a suspense thriller involving two fatal explosions that take place 15 years apart but are linked by two women that look alike. The cast is led by Taiwanese actor Jasper Liu, who shot to fame after 2018’s pan-Asian box office hit More Than Blue,...