News — Gordon Lam

Film Review Hand Rolled Cigarette 手捲煙 (2020) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) In a twist of events, debutant director Chan Kin Long managed to create a masterpiece of an extended finale filled with action packed and stunt choreography that is both impressive and technically complimented in the crime action film - “Hand Rolled Cigarette”. There are many themes that Chan touches upon, but the most evident one remains brotherhood, bloodshed and a recall of beautiful cocktail mixture between the likes of Hong Kong’s Fruit Chan and Japanese Takashi Miike. Despite a genuine overload...

Film Review: Limbo 智齒 (2021) - Hong Kong   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Hong Kong Director Soi Cheang Pou-soi returns to his devilish best in this dystopia film that could have been set in any damning city in the world. With the dark side of the Hong Kong backdrop filled with rubbish and perfect juxtaposed with the noir lighting filmed in black and white for the entire duration. “Limbo” is every bit a dystopian nightmare and even at times hellish to the point of bottomless pit of society that no one wants to care, associate...

SPL 3 / Paradox (2017) - Hong Kong Review by Andrew ChanLouis Koo goes berserk in his most physical performance to date and even manage to make Liam Neeson looks proud in the process as the father on a mission desperately searching for his missing daughter in Pattaya. It is also easily Koo best ever performance and most certainly in line for a Best Actor award. Director Wilson Yip returns to the directing chair for the third instalment and like its predecessors, it is brutally entertaining and tension filled from start to finish and not a film for the faint...