Skip to main content

Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (November 1-7), from The Quake to Bohemian Rhapsody

Click on the film titles to read SCMP.com reviews. 1. The Quake The 2015 Norwegian film The Wave is an engrossing disaster thriller that impresses as much for its spectacle as its humanistic touch. The same can be said of this equally exhilarating sequel, which finds the same family of characters at the epicentre of a huge earthquake that threatens to destroy Oslo. (Opens on November 1) 2. One Cut of the Dead The best zombie comedy in years is also a tale of resourceful filmmaking at its most...

from South China Morning Post - Culture feed https://ift.tt/2OjfX1x

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Dita Von Teese: ‘Even when I was a bondage model, I had big-time boundaries’

As the star dives into a giant glass of fizz for her first online extravaganza, she talks about this new golden age for burlesque, why the French Strictly gives her costume problems – and how #MeToo has changed her Dita Von Teese is looking divine. Her lips are that signature red, she’s wearing 1950s cat eye glasses, and her black hair falls in a thick wave across a Snow White skin – and all this on the unglamorous stage of a glitchy Zoom call. Only knowing Von Teese from her femme fatale image, her teasingly aloof burlesque performances, and her time in the tabloids as former wife of goth rocker Marilyn Manson , you might expect an icy demeanour, an impermeable mystique. So it’s surprising to discover quite how normal she is: chatty, self-deprecating, not very vampish. It’s easy to see traces of Heather Sweet, the “super shy” girl from small-town Michigan who transformed into Von Teese. The reason for our conversation is a new film, Night of the Teese, made with director Quinn Wils...