Articles by Allan Tong

Lightning In A Bottle

Antoine Fuqua

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Two years ago, some of America's greatest musicians (B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke, Ruth Brown, Macy Gray, Nathalie Cole and others)...

Zatoichi

Takeshi Kitano

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop) revives Japanese folk hero Zatoichi in an audacious, dazzling film. Set in the early 1800s, Zatoichi is a blin...

The Stepford Wives

Frank Oz

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

The original Stepford Wives was released at the height of feminism, when a generation of housewives entered the workforce and demanded the...

The Terminal

D.J. Caruso

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

American everyman Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, who travels from Krakozhia (a fictitious eastern European country) to see America for th...

Infernal Affairs (Wu jian dao)

Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

Finally, the most exciting thriller to recently come out of Asia reaches North American shores. Infernal Affairs is a cat-and-mouse drama b...

MAD TV: Season 1

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

In the mid-'90s, MAD TV filled the void left by the anaemic Saturday Night Live. Finally here was an ensemble sketch comedy series that was...

Zhou Yu's Train

Sun Zhou

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

Few faces in the world can command the screen like China's Gong Li. Beauty aside, the world-renowned actress can express a wider range of e...

Some Things That Stay

Gail Harvey

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Sarah Willis, Some Things That Stay is a coming-of-age story centring on a teenage girl, Tamara Anderso...