Articles by Allan Tong

Sunday Bloody Sunday

John Schlesinger

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy was released in 1969, the same year as the Stonewall Riots. Cowboy would be the first X-rated film (PG b...

Leap Of Faith

Richard Pearce

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

Faith healer Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) leads a caravan of salvation packed inside buses and semis rolling down the highway until the...

Lan Yu

Stanley Kwan

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

Country boy Lan Yu (Ye Liu) arrives in Beijing 1988 to study architecture. Short of cash, he tries prostituting himself in a pool hall. The...

Stargate Sg-1: Season Three

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

A top-secret U.S. Air Force facility deep below Cheyenne Mountain holds a mysterious alien artefact, the Stargate, which is the gateway to...

Chattahoochee

Mick Jackson

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

War hero Emmett Foley returns from the Korean War and shoots up his Florida neighbourhood. He hopes the police will kill him so that his wi...

The Event

Directed by Thom Fitzgerald

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

Matt Shapiro (Don McKellar in yet another Canadian movie) is dying of AIDS and wants to end his suffering. His death arouses the suspicions...

Horror Special Edition Collection: Carrie / The Fog / The Howling

Brian De Palma, John Carpenter, Joe Dante

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

Finally, a box set worth buying. For the Halloween season, MGM packages three classic scary movies: the original Carrie (which launched the...

Stephen King Collector Set: Carrie / Misery / Needful Things / The Dark Half

Brian De Palma, Rob Reiner, Fraser Clarke Heston and George A. Romero

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

Stephen King adaptations are a crapshoot. They're either horrific or just horrible. This four-disc box set contains both. By far, the best...