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The Impressive Hong Kong Media Artist Victor Wong(黃宏達)Who Typifies The Adaptive Spirit Of Hong Kong—FromPapercraft, Digital Art, Film Special Effects To AI Origination
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Rapid Expansion Of Single Women’s Entertainment Market In Hong Kong: The Fantastic Talk Show “One Mic Stand” By Kearen Pang (彭秀慧) Who is Happy To Be“Single All The Way”
Women are increasingly on their own as they now receive more education, attain financial self-reliance and no longer believe in traditional values such as marriage and children. Self-empowerment allows women these days in Hong Kong to lead their own life, and there is no necessity to seek male partnerships for protection, support or stability. Single…
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The Success Of TVB’s Community Complaints Program “Scoop” (東張西望): Online Ombudsman In Hong Kong?
Complaints in things necessary, gossip in things unnecessary, and the most successful civic TV program by our local television station TVB, Scoop (東張西望), has it all! TVB program Scoop is a daily infotainment TV show in Hong Kong, broadcasting since 2005. It focuses on hot community topics, social issues, livelihood issues, and most importantly, handling…
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Do You Know Social Isolation And A Lost Sense Of Purpose Can Kill? The Faint Sadness Of An Emotionally Powerful Film: Tokyo Taxi(東京的士：回憶里程)
Social isolation can be about forced loneliness, like the case of losing a husband or wife, versus chosen solitude, like the case of a loner who thinks a man is an island and he does not want to have any friends. An acclaimed screenwriter Robert Zemeckis said, “We don’t function well as human beings when…
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The Must-go Cultural Rectangle (文化四角) In Kowloon For Tourists: Temple Street Tin Hau Temple (油麻地天后古廟), Old Yau Ma Tei Police Station (舊油麻地警署),Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market (油麻地果欄) And Broadway Cinematheque (百老匯電影中心)
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A Good Movie Spoiled By Excessive Bloodshed－28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (28年後: 人骨聖殿). Does Violence Really Relieve Pent-up Tension?
It is said that there are 3 success formulas for a commercial film: sex scenes, ghosts and bloodshed. The attraction of bloodshed in a film is often driven by personality traits like high sensation-seeking. It allows viewers to enjoy the thrill of the spectacle. Watching onscreen violence enables some audience to release pent-up tension, aggression…
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Legal Drama Mercy(法無赦): Watching A Movie Through CCTV Video Clips. Do You Enjoy? I Don’t!
New ideas often spark creativity by challenging the status quo. But, new movie ideas often introduce risks that the audience may not like the strange ingenuity. Legal drama Mercy (法無赦) is a 2026 movie which will evoke either a love or hate response. It is directed by Timur Bekmambetov who is Russian. Bekmanbetov was born…
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“L’Étrangers” : The Bleak Situations Faced by 4 Emigrants From Hong Kong In Toronto In The Movie Of Finch & Midland (今天應該很高興) Directed By Canadian-Chinese Director Timothy Yeung (楊永光)
There is an immense range of reasons why people want to live a new life. Before long, some regret their decision. It was said that people emigrate for 3 reasons: “push factors”, “pull factors” and “bandwagon factors”. Push factors are like war, political hardship or following parents’ arrangement. “Pull” factors include looking for a better…
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Does The Rise Of The Chinese Mainland Investors Shift The Local Pop Concert Influence Away From Hong Kong Organisers? Is Jacky Cheung (張學友) Concert An Example Of The Trend?
“There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.” In the business world, we are all in the middle of nature beauty contest. Pop concerts in Hong Kong usually take place in 2 venues. Hung Hom Stadium, officially the Hong Kong Coliseum (紅磡體育館), has a seating capacity of 12,500 people…
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The Entertaining Hong Kong Movie “Back To The Past (尋秦記)” : Take A Trip Down The Memory Lane Of The TV Drama In The 2000s: Time Tunnel To The Qin Dynasty (秦朝) In 221 BC
The biggest enemy to Hong Kong movies is boredom. Our creative strength should lie in diversities, not in similarities. The recent successful movie is The Last Dance (破地獄). It is a 2024 Hong Kong drama film which explores themes related to Hong Kong’s death care. It is also about the conflict of a wedding planner…