The cult film plays a rather distinct role in the Hong Kong cinematic imaginary: not necessarily a bastion of kitsch or camp ripe for nostalgic or underhanded rehabilitation, it is more often here measured by its absurdity. Playing along the …

Singaporean director Tan Pin Pin is known for a set of rather structural and process-based documentaries: with 80kmh (2003), for example, we watch a continuous moving shot as we travel along a major highway artery across the island state, while …

Let the Bullets Fly (让子弹飞, 2010) is an immensely enjoyable, entertaining and engrossing blockbuster, particularly by the standards of mainstream films released on time to catch the action split between the two new year holidays on the solar and lunar …

Much has been made of the vigor of the experimental music scene in Beijing, which many observers — myself included — once expected to bridge the gaps between popular music and mass culture on the one hand and fine art …

As the slogan goes: “Shulong: The comfortable and stylish vintage sneakers from China.” Shulong, or, literally, “comfortable dragon” is the latest entrant in the race to become the first vintage Chinese brand to endear itself to international consumers from Williamsburg …

Stephen Chow controls the canon of humorous film in Hong Kong. Although today both he and fellow hometown heavy-hitter Jackie Chan have made their peace with the dictators in Beijing and pledged to use only Mandarin, the language of bureaucratic …

Cantopop may have been revolutionary back in the days of Sam Hui, the godfather of the Hong Kong sound, but today a younger generation of new irascibles is looking to make a change in the musical landscape of the island …