Male strippers reveal social problems

The Full Monty is a comedy but it taps other emotions. Set in Sheffield, northern England, it tells the tale of six out-of-work steelworkers who try to escape from their dire financial circumstances by forming a very unlikely strip act. While a comedy, this Oscar-nominated movie examines the social changes brought about by the closure of the steelworks in the late 1980s.

It's showing at Broadway Cinematheque, Broadway Kwai Fong, Silvercord, GV Mongkok, GV Hollywood, UA Sha Tin and UA Times Square.

Still in Britain, this time it's Liverpool, 1962. Beatlemania has swept the country, but one household remains untouched by its influence: Jack Su's Chinese Laundry. Peggy, Jack's sister, came from Hong Kong after their mother died three years ago.

One day, her dad announces he has recently re- married. He decrees that Peggy should also marry soon, and says he is arriving with a suitable boy.

This forces Peggy into action. She determines to marry only for love. However, a good man is hard to find . . . Peggy Su! is now showing at CineArt.

It's autumn 1997 and two major gangs, the Hung Hing and the Tong Sing, have fought a serious gang war.