Last night as I was monitoring the 2012 Golden Horse Awards, I was hoping that Gui Lun-mei will win best actress for GF*BF. I rather had a selfish reason for wishing so and that is because Chen Bolin won as best actor at the Golden Bell a month or so earlier. If she wins, it…
I surprisingly enjoyed Love In Space so I guess I’m really a sucker for breezy romantic ensemble dramas. Well, life is already complicated as it is, what’s the point of pushing myself to depression with ultra realistic ones? Set in Beijing, Sydney and space (beat that), the movie is about a widow and her three…
Sashiburi desu. Busy but I just have to blog about this film. It stars my girl crush Gui Lun Mei and Rhydian Vaughan. Okay, that guy in Love You too. It has the period charm of You Are The Apple of My Eye, the lighter vibe of Winds of September, and a hint of Eternal…
Gui Lun-mei is one of the Taiwanese actresses I like not in the fangirl way but in the proper movie critic way. I first watched her in Blue Gate Crossing with Chen Bo-lin during that phase in my life that I was just discovering contemporary Taiwanese cinema, and I never regretted it. I also became…
I am not really big on wuxia films but lately, I have been wanting to watch Asian films–in whatever form–in the cinema as opposed to watching on my laptop. I guess that’s also the effect of watching too many dramas online than I ever did. So I did get to spend Saturday night watching Tsui…
(Dateline Taipei part 13) I was really excited to watch Starry Starry Night being a fan of Jimmy Liao. I was curious to see how his gorgeous artwork and touching story would translate onscreen. The movie is directed by Tom Lin Shu-yu, who also directed Winds of September. Had I watched WOS before this, I…
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