When it was announced that Liu Cixins novel Three Body was gonna be made in to film scifi-fans around the world were excited about the news. For a short while some Chinese fans also discussed the idea of Christopher Nolan being the director of the film mostly because of Interstellar recent success in mainland China. […]
Category: Reviews
Detective Chinatown 《唐人街探案》(Chen Sicheng, 2015)
The police force is always a source for constant mockery and satire. Not only because it’s one of the few institutions in a modern society which can exercise violence as a mean for carrying out their work but also because the ambiguous nature of being a police, corrupted or not, is potential good comedy anywhere […]
The Chinese Mayor 《中国市长》(Zhou Hao, 2014)
Geng Yanbo (耿彦波) is a father, husband and the mayor of the city Datong (大同) located in Shanxi, northwest of China. Director Zhou Hao (周浩) got the unique opportunity to follow the industrious and tireless Geng for a long period of time and at the same time taking part of the transformation of an ancient […]
The Taking of Tiger Mountain 《智取威虎山》 (Tsui Hark, 2014)
In the midst of North-east China’s snow covered trees and mountains platoon 203 is fighting against small gangs of bandits who rob and pillage rural villages. When entering the small village Leather Creek they find out about a nest of bandits living on Tiger Mountain, where bandit chieftain The Hawk (座山雕/三爷) is leading a gang […]