5 movies and TV shows to watch in Hong Kong this weekend, November 22-24

5 movies and TV shows to watch in Hong Kong this weekend, November 22-24

The latest adaptation of a classic children’s novel – this time a musical boasting a starry cast – and a mould-breaking comedy starring Korean actress Kim Go-eun await cinema-goers in Hong Kong this weekend. Speaking of comedy, a bold, multilayered series on Disney+ with the role of a lifetime for a Chinese-American comedian is a … Read more

How Disney+’s Interior Chinatown with Jimmy O. Yang mocks Asian stereotypes in Hollywood

How Disney+’s Interior Chinatown with Jimmy O. Yang mocks Asian stereotypes in Hollywood

Interior Chinatown, a “meta” detective series in which a struggling Asian waiter becomes the unlikely hero of a police-procedural-style criminal conspiracy, satirises Hollywood’s stereotypical treatment of minorities – while also nodding to the progress the industry has belatedly made. The new show, out on Disney+ on November 19, is based on a novel by US … Read more

Time Bandits without dwarf actors? TV remake with Taika Waititi, Lisa Kudrow had a rethink

Time Bandits without dwarf actors? TV remake with Taika Waititi, Lisa Kudrow had a rethink

Both the film and the series follow a ragtag band of time-travelling thieves, led in the film by David Rappaport as Randall and in the TV series by Kudrow as Penelope, who join forces with their newest recruit – an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin – on a journey through time to save the boy’s … Read more

From Her to Spirited Away, the 5 top films of French-American entrepreneur Camille Glass

From Her to Spirited Away, the 5 top films of French-American entrepreneur Camille Glass

“This film, set in the near future, brings to life the inevitable sadness and the beauty of the human experience as we follow a relationship between a man grieving a lost marriage and his new-found AI companion.” 2. Jojo Rabbit (2019) Glass never thought a comedy-drama set in Nazi Germany during the second world war … Read more