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Better known as Chan Hong among audiences, Johnny Tan has been steadily making a name for himself on the local performing arts scene after having appeared in a wide range of productions over the...

Postcard: Los Angeles

Last Sunday night, Ben Affleck's Argo was named the best motion picture of the year at the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony while Ang Lee received the best director honour for Life of Pi.

Blue Notes: Tribal Tech

Thursday night will be a big one for fans of hard-core jazz fusion, as one of the genre's "supergroups" is appearing in Chai Wan.

Preview: Live Vibe Hong Kong

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Study of a bad boy of Japanese art

Is Makoto Aida a misogynist? It seems a fair question. Among his cheerfully scattershot collection at the Mori Art Museum is a series of manga-style paintings called Dog, showing naked young women...

Canadian band F**ed Up is just messing with you

For a band with such an abrasive name and a frontman who looks as if he'd sooner punch you than sing to you, F***ed Up can be ever so polite.

Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning Amour hits raw emotions

There isn't a more amazing story in cinemas this year than Amour. From winning at Cannes to gate-crashing the Oscars, Michael Haneke's elegant yet harrowing study of ageing and illness has defied...

Joan Chen: 'Little Flower' in full bloom

Joan Chen can remember with complete clarity the night that she decided to give the acting game away.

MC Jin, re-branded

"I'm brand new, I'm brand new," Jin Au-yeung, better known by his stage name MC Jin, proclaims repeatedly on the track Brand New Me, featured on his latest English EP of the same name. "Guess what...

Film review: Stoker

The English debut of South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook is hell bent on cashing every cinematic chip he banked from a cache of cult built on hits like Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. At...

Film review: Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook is one of those films with a number of scene-stealing supporting characters. Chief among them is the one played with scene-chewing relish by Robert De Niro; but those...

Ang Lee wins second directing Oscar for Life of Pi

Taiwanese-born Ang Lee won his second Oscar for best directing on Sunday for Life of Pi, the adaption of Yann Martel’s fantasy adventure novel about an Indian boy who survives a shipwreck but is...

Silver Linings Playbook wins best film at Spirit Awards

Silver Linings Playbook won the best film prize at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, as well as best actress for Jennifer Lawrence and best director.