18 May 2011

'It has been 469 days since I was first arrested ... but the Department of Justice has never told me what crime I committed.'

Tony Chan, seeker of the late Nina Wang 's HK$100...

10:19AM
11 Oct 2009

Joaquin Garcia could not be more obvious. At 1.93 metres and weighing in at 180kg, there's no missing the man. In motion, he's a slow-moving shambles: he fills the pavement, listing heavily from...

7:47AM
12 Jul 2009

It was inevitable that the Yes Men would pull a prank at the premiere for their new film, The Yes Men Fix the World, at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.

6:44PM
22 Mar 2009

Making Jack Falcone

by Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia (with Michael Levin)

Simon & Schuster HK$202

5:58AM
31 Aug 2006

Job description: Directors love the idea of the undercover cop risking life and limb to get the dirt on the dirtbags - the danger, the frisson, the threat of exposure. It's a great way to keep...

3:16AM
9 Mar 2006

Job description: Nothing gets the tension crackling like an unlikely bond between an arch-villain and a good guy. We sit in our seats enthralled by this strangest of kinships, waiting in...

10:49AM

The Sopranos is not the only drama to show the gritty, unglamorous side of life in the mafia. Several movies have done the same, including Donnie Brasco (Pearl, 9.30pm).

3:59AM

FOUR men aged between 37 and 43 have been charged with bookmaking after a raid on a Mongkok flat. Betting slips with a value of $1.26 million were seized.


7:30AM

A rock solid English director gives up safe frills-and-flowers escapades to take on down-and-out Brooklyn mobsters? Fuggedaboudit!

5:13PM

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