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The Hurt Locker is a pretty average film, one which in 20 years time will be the subject of quiz questions about obscure Best Picture Oscar winners.The fact it won Oscar for Best Film and Best Director is testimony more to the twin facts that the director – one Kathryn...

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Stephen Chan is not involved in any corrupt practices I know of ...

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I used to be a greedy bastard(Photo courtesy of Apple Daily)...

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They finally noticed all our sets look the same ...

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The local branch of eco-warriors Friends of the Earth doesn't confine its militancy to dolphin-eating Japs or fact-wielding eco-sceptics.Last week, a friend of mine in the logistics line received a request (demand?) for information from the outfit that makes Norwegian whalers look like the Society of Friends. The missive ended...

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The battle for supremacy among the establishments that exist to dissect past papers of the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority - or to attract the attention of the ICAC by buying them and texting the answers to students - while cramming Hong Kong's dropouts with test-taking techniques has been...

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C.S. Lewis used to talk about being "pregnant with book", alluding as much to the difficulty of writing well as to the overwhelming need he often felt to put his thoughts on paper. Byron was another phenomenally successful writer, noted, as Lewis was, for the speed and apparent ease of...

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What makes a film overrated? Sometimes, the story of its making or release – Gone With the Wind and Brazil come to mind – deflect attention from the actual merits of the product itself. Sometimes, the directors and or producers are the darling of the small, but influential, critical community...

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It's many years since I last saw Way of the Dragon, one of the films that catapulted Bruce Lee to stardom before his untimely and rather mysterious death. Unlike the other films he starred in, Lee both wrote and directed the Hong Kong-produced Way of the Dragon, and I can...

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Byron may have been a manic depressive and a hopeless husband, but he was a man of singular acuity. His verdict on the rascals who use morality "for a purpose" had me thinking about Hong Kong and its "Civic Education" and the People Republic of China and its putrid calls...

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A clip from the HBO documentary China's Unnatural Disaster, made in the days following the earthquake in Sichuan that killed 80,000 people, including 10,000 children, in May 2008."We're not asking for money, we want justice to prevent future tragedies. This is a lesson of blood ... Shoddy construction killed so...

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"Recession? What recession?"That's the message from the redoubtable Woodwards and Bernsteins at the Hong Kong Journalists Association, the folk who think that investigative journalism is to ask an interviewee their age and favourite colour and then go into print without getting both wrong. A year on from their...

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Subscribing to Webbsite was the smartest investment decision I ever madeThe Webbmeister was in playful mood over the weekend, producing a piece characterised by considerable more levity than his average exposé of Stock Exchange shenanigans.His beef is with the government-wide practice of quoting non-existent anonymous sources. Now, what David M....

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Monday being St David's Day, the next week is particularly busy for the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir. Two sets at the St David's Society ball in the cavernous sports hall of the Hong Kong Football Club this evening is followed by a similar event in Bangkok next week...

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First, I must apologise for a heading devoid of any imagination whatsoever and worthy of remark to the extent that it's worthy of remark at all only by dint of the fact that it demonstrates such egregious laziness on the part of the writer. Yes, I got it from a...

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Whispers have reached me that you're not a bully, Donald.Lies, Mr. President, all lies!...

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Top stuff from the man who can't act but is one of the best in the business at observational humour. ...

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Anyone say bad thing about you, you kill them...

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If Hemmers can do it, then so can I. The only difference being that today's review of Invictus has really been penned by someone else – my daughter, as her English homework assignment during the long Chinese New Year break. Anything, absolutely anything to keep her away from her new...

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One bus rear-ends another in the Shing Mun Tunnel. Some plonker from the Transport Department passes up the opportunity to talk about the need to keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front by bringing up the non-issue of bus drivers' workloads."We're very concerned about the working time and...

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In between eating lashings of loh bat gou with chilli sauce, trying to avoid the duck's tongue Shanghai-style, making sightings of Streptopelia chinensis, annoying my daughter by my parsimony in respect of lai see and winning a few bob on the nags over Chinese New Year, I also managed to...

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Not a cartoon starring Dick Dastardly, Muttley and the Wacky Racers ... not even a pigeon, in fact – just something that looks like a dove wearing a Burberry scarf.I'm no twitcher, but I reckon this particular avian visitor to Ngau Tau Kok must have stopped off at the Landmark...

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Lazing around at home on the third day of Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year, as the politically correct style it) after a strenuous hour on the badminton court at the magnificent Yuen Wo Road Sports Centre, I thought, in between races, that it would be interesting to look...

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One needs to be slitty-eyed for it to work properly, you see. ...

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I laced the milkshake with sedative because I had thought things through rationally and believed my husband was likely to assault me that evening; I attacked him with a statue in anticipatory self-defence, having reached the conclusion that the likelihood of him attacking me first was so high as there...

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