The term “dog eat dog” applies to brutal office politics or cutthroat competition. When director Soi Cheang set out to make his new film, he took its meaning literally.
Dog Bite Dog is one of the grittiest, bloodiest Chinese-language movies released in the past year, in which men sink to the level of dogs and, yes, bite each other.
Hong Kong films are known to be violent, but when Chow Yun-fat (周潤發) goes all guns blazing against his enemies there is a certain elegance to it.
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There's limited gunplay in Dog Bite Dog — it's simply nakedly primal wrestling with no inhibitions whatsoever.
Hong Kong heartthrob Edison Chen (陳冠希), due to appear in the upcoming sequel to The Grudge alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, plays Pang, a Cambodian killer raised as a freestyle combat fighter who takes a hit job in Hong Kong.
A team of police officers led by hotheaded Wai (Sam Lee) pursues him doggedly but proves no match for the vicious Pang.
The plot takes several bizarre and far-fetched twists, capped by an utterly over-the-top ending.
As many as 12,000 people, many of them Hurricane Katrina survivors, jammed the New Orleans Arena late Wednesday for the premiere of filmmaker Spike Lee's four-hour documentary about the deadly storm.
The free showing of When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts took place just a stone's throw from the Louisiana Superdome, which became a sweltering pit of human misery after Katrina, and which figures prominently in the film's first hour.
The outspoken director, whose credits include Do the Right Thing (1989) and this year's Inside Man, was in a jocular mood during his brief introduction, despite the documentary's serious subject matter.
“I hope you went to the bathroom, because there's no break,” Lee told the crowd.
When the Levees Broke begins with the days leading up to Aug. 29, 2005, when Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,300, rendering tens of thousands more homeless and inundating 80 percent of New Orleans with fetid floodwater.
Told almost exclusively through interviews with hurricane survivors and the officials charged with rescuing them, Lee has said his documentary was an effort to give a voice to the people most affected by the storm.
Actor Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton, known for their offbeat films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will team again to make Sweeney Todd, based on Stephen Sondheim's award-winning stage musical, the DreamWorks movie studio said on Thursday.
Depp often brings an eccentric edge to his roles, like the swishy pirate captain Jack Sparrow in current hit Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and director Burton has created some of the movies' strangest characters like the shrub pruning monster in Edward Scissorhands, played by Depp.
In Sweeney Todd, to be released in late next year, Depp will play the murderous barber of the same name who seeks his own brand of razor-slashing revenge against a judge who wrongfully imprisoned him.
American actors Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson will play brothers on a spiritual trip to Asia after their father's death in a comedy to be filmed in India late this year, a Hollywood industry publication said Wednesday.
China unveiled plans to make a movie about the 1937 Rape of Nanjing in an announcement on Monday.
The movie of the massacres of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops will be based on Iris Chang's best-selling account, The Rape of Nanking, Xinhua news agency said, adding it would involve a US production company and British investors.
China actress Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) and Malaysia's Michelle Yeoh (楊紫瓊), were on the investors' wish list, the news agency said.
Climate change, political headwinds and diverging market dynamics around the world have pushed coffee prices to fresh records, jacking up the cost of your everyday brew or a barista’s signature macchiato. While the current hot streak may calm down in the coming months, experts and industry insiders expect volatility will remain the watchword, giving little visibility for producers — two-thirds of whom farm parcels of less than one hectare. METEORIC RISE The price of arabica beans listed in New York surged by 90 percent last year, smashing on Dec. 10 a record dating from 1977 — US$3.48 per pound. Robusta prices have
A dozen excited 10-year-olds are bouncing in their chairs. The small classroom’s walls are lined with racks of wetsuits and water equipment, and decorated with posters of turtles. But the students’ eyes are trained on their teacher, Tseng Ching-ming, describing the currents and sea conditions at nearby Banana Bay, where they’ll soon be going. “Today you have one mission: to take off your equipment and float in the water,” he says. Some of the kids grin, nervously. They don’t know it, but the students from Kenting-Eluan elementary school on Taiwan’s southernmost point, are rare among their peers and predecessors. Despite most of
The resignation of Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) co-founder Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) as party chair on Jan. 1 has led to an interesting battle between two leading party figures, Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) and Tsai Pi-ru (蔡壁如). For years the party has been a one-man show, but with Ko being held incommunicado while on trial for corruption, the new chair’s leadership could be make or break for the young party. Not only are the two very different in style, their backgrounds are very different. Tsai is a co-founder of the TPP and has been with Ko from the very beginning. Huang has
Nine Taiwanese nervously stand on an observation platform at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport. It’s 9:20am on March 27, 1968, and they are awaiting the arrival of Liu Wen-ching (柳文卿), who is about to be deported back to Taiwan where he faces possible execution for his independence activities. As he is removed from a minibus, a tenth activist, Dai Tian-chao (戴天昭), jumps out of his hiding place and attacks the immigration officials — the nine other activists in tow — while urging Liu to make a run for it. But he’s pinned to the ground. Amid the commotion, Liu tries to