Peter Chan

‘Every day I’m striving’: Hong Kong filmmaker Sandra Ng’s evolution from playing the ‘funny hag’ to lauded producer

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Her part in the 1988 action comedy The Inspector Wears Skirts earned Ng a best new performer nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards the following year. Her first leading role arrived soon afterwards, alongside Stephen Chow Sing-chi in Jeffrey Lau Chun-wai’s Thunder Cops II (1989). ‘The eyes of six million Hongkongers on me’: all … Read more

Table for Six 2 movie review: Lunar New Year comedy sequel anchored by Stephy Tang is a chaotic but satisfying follow-up to the 2022 box office sensation

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3.5/5 stars For all the talk of Table of Six ranking third on the list of highest-grossing Hong Kong films of all time, it is easy to overlook the incongruous fact that the 2022 film was a single-location comedy in which six characters keep talking around a dinner table. It was an unenviable task for … Read more