Edmund Lee

Edmund joined the Post in 2013 after five years at Time Out Hong Kong, where he was the arts and culture editor.

From left: Yoo Ah-in, Jun Jong-seo and Steven Yeun in a still from Burning, which has been nominated for six awards in the 2019 Asian Film Awards.

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2019 Asian Film Awards nominations announced: find them all here

14 Jan 2019 - 11:50am

Kung Fu Monster film review: Louis Koo on autopilot in unfunny blend of creature feature and wuxia parody

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Kung Fu Monster: Louis Koo on autopilot in unfunny fantasy

3 Jan 2019 - 7:00pm

Dearest Anita film review: love-in for Anita Mui fans traces late Canto-pop singer’s positive influences

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Dearest Anita is a love-in for fans of Canto-pop icon Anita Mui

3 Jan 2019 - 3:57pm

Ranking every Hong Kong film released in 2018, from worst to best

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Ranking every Hong Kong film released in 2018, from worst to best

24 Dec 2018 - 4:08pm

Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy film review – Max Zhang holds his own opposite Michelle Yeoh and Dave Bautista in martial arts spin-off

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Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy – Max Zhang takes over from Donnie Yen

20 Dec 2018 - 7:21pm

Donnie Yen’s new Ip Man film: how Dave Bautista scared Max Zhang, martial artist who plays lead

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Why Max Zhang was scared to fight Dave Bautista in Ip Man film

19 Dec 2018 - 8:28pm

The 25 best films of 2018, from Avengers: Infinity War to Widows, released in Hong Kong

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2018’s best films: counting down the top 25 shown in Hong Kong

18 Dec 2018 - 8:10pm

From Pitch Perfect 3 to The Happytime Murders, the worst films of 2018 released in Hong Kong

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The 25 worst films of 2018 – we watched them so you don’t have to

18 Dec 2018 - 2:27pm 2

Last Letter director Shunji Iwai on his Chinese-language debut and Peter Chan’s contribution

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Last Letter director Shunji Iwai on his Chinese-language debut

29 Nov 2018 - 7:28pm

Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (November 22-28), from Ten Years Japan to Tracey

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: November 22-28

22 Nov 2018 - 7:00am

Tracey film review: Philip Keung mesmerising in Hong Kong transgender drama

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Tracey: Philip Keung earns first lead role in transgender drama

21 Nov 2018 - 7:46pm

Iceman: The Time Traveler film review – Donnie Yen’s sci-fi action sequel an insult to the paying public

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Iceman: The Time Traveler is the nadir of Donnie Yen’s film career

15 Nov 2018 - 7:45pm 1

Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (November 15-21), from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald to Ash Is Purest White

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: November 15-21

15 Nov 2018 - 7:03am

Napping Kid film review: Hong Kong detective mystery hides an urgent plea for social change

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Napping Kid, detective mystery with social activism at its heart

8 Nov 2018 - 7:14pm

Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (November 8-14), from An Elephant Sitting Still to Napping Kid

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: November 8-14

8 Nov 2018 - 7:02am

Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (November 1-7), from The Quake to Bohemian Rhapsody

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: November 1-7

1 Nov 2018 - 7:00am

Keyboard Warriors film review: internet nerds take spotlight in vigilante crime-fighting comedy

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Keyboard Warriors review: vigilante crime-fighting comedy

6 Nov 2018 - 6:07pm

Thirty Years of Adonis film review: sexually explicit gay drama mixes porn and pomposity

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Thirty Years of Adonis review: sexually explicit gay drama

31 Oct 2018 - 4:31am

Teddy Robin Kwan is no Fellini, as he quickly proves with this haphazardly scripted fare
Film’s four unconnected short stories offer a shallow grab bag of genre elements

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Lucid Dreams is a forgettable horror-comedy anthology

25 Oct 2018 - 7:57pm

A zombie horror comedy, and Timothee Chalamet as a crystal-meth addict, among our must-see films
Gerard Butler saves the world again, and John Cho searches for his missing daughter.

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: October 25-31

25 Oct 2018 - 7:01am

Cheesy direction and a lack of nuance hamper this well-intentioned Hong Kong film about a hardbitten executive who starts seeing ghosts everywhere and enlists them to run a hostel with her

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Chrissie Chau tries hard in supernatural comedy Hotel Soul Good

18 Oct 2018 - 7:02pm

An exhilarating biopic of Neil Armstrong, a showcase of Asian-American talent, a coming-of-age drama, a new version of a classic melodrama and a tale of self-discovery are this week’s picks

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: October 18-24

18 Oct 2018 - 7:04am

An exhilarating biopic of Neil Armstrong and an anti-romantic comedy starring Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are among our top picks this week

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: October 11-17

11 Oct 2018 - 7:02am

This gentle social drama is a modest tale of self-discovery that focuses on a special needs teacher, an underachiever from an elite school and a bad boy who has a brother with a disability

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Distinction review: social drama by Ten Years and Trivisa director

10 Oct 2018 - 5:45pm

Felix Chong directs a convoluted story about a counterfeit-money gang that morphs from crime procedural to unhinged action thriller. Chow’s role is his best in years

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Aaron Kwok, Chow Yun-fat face off in Project Gutenberg – review

4 Oct 2018 - 7:02pm

A modern-day film noir with two female leads, a stylish crime drama starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok, and two artist documentaries are among this week’s must-see films

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: October 4-10

4 Oct 2018 - 6:40pm

Director is celebrated for scripting hits such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy and Overheard series, which he also helmed, yet struggles to get his stories told. He has his supporters, though

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Project Gutenberg director on Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok

3 Oct 2018 - 7:48pm

Although the first Gintama was a box office hit its tiresome parade of CGI aliens did not hold the attention, but this sequel benefits by putting its emphasis on the humans, with the few outstanding scenes being exceptionally good

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Gintama 2 review: comedy sequel is less insufferable than the original

27 Sep 2018 - 7:00pm

A brutal gay romance on a farm with echoes of Brokeback Mountain, an old-fashioned horror film, a documentary that’s almost unreal – there’s a lot worth seeing this week

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: Sep 27-Oct 3

27 Sep 2018 - 7:01am

High-concept comedy about seeking the truth despite what everyone tells you will intrigue adults but probably go over the heads of children, who must content themselves with some slapstick

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Something for everyone in yetis-discover-humans film Smallfoot – review

24 Sep 2018 - 5:18pm

Five key stars from the 1990 series that glorified triad criminals, and recurrent use of the original theme song, make Golden Job’s purpose clear, even if the theme of brotherhood is stretched in unexpected narrative directions

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Golden Job will give Young and Dangerous fans a nostalgia rush – review

20 Sep 2018 - 6:52pm

The latest harmless James Bond parody, following the 2003 original and its 2011 sequel Johnny English Reborn, sees Atkinson’s inept secret agent wreak more havoc, but dated format and his usual slapstick don’t entertain

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Rowan Atkinson slapstick can’t save tired Johnny English Strikes Again

20 Sep 2018 - 12:01pm

Light on story but heavy with nerve-shredding atmosphere, The Nun will please horror fans this week. There’s comedy too from a Sundance festival debutant, a waterborne Full Monty and a zany Japanese take on relationships

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: September 20-26

20 Sep 2018 - 7:00am

A legal and personal drama adapted from an Ian McEwan novel, a very scary horror turn by Toni Collette, and a Full Monty-like true story about male synchronised swimmers among our picks

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: September 13-19

13 Sep 2018 - 7:03am

The director’s supernatural whodunit is diverting at times but ultimately proves a disappointing third instalment in the series; pointless CGI mayhem replaces its seventh-century mystery origins

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Review – monsters unite in Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings

12 Sep 2018 - 7:49pm

A shockingly grim horror feature that’s been a summer sensation and a gritty Korean espionage drama based on real events are among this week’s must-see films

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: September 6-12

6 Sep 2018 - 7:00am

Hong Kong filmmaker Kenneth Lau’s best movie, and possibly his last, Adieu is a well-meaning, well acted take on dealing with terminal cancer

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Adieu, sentimental drama shot through with spectre of death – review

5 Sep 2018 - 8:03pm

Veteran filmmaker Jingle Ma looks to revive a winning formula from the early noughties, but this film is badly scripted and there is zero chemistry between Tony Leung and Chinese actress playing his old flame, Tiffany Tang

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Tony Leung back as bounty hunter in Europe Raiders – review

30 Aug 2018 - 7:02pm

A Bollywood comedy of manners, a Japanese animator’s family drama, another parenthood tale from the team behind Juno, a Korean remake of Johnnie To’s Drug War, and a gore-splattered 90 minutes of Mark Wahlberg make up our top five this week

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Top 5 films to watch in Hong Kong this week: August 30-September 5

30 Aug 2018 - 7:03am

Sometimes exciting, often ludicrous and ultimately very forgettable, this by-the-numbers sequel to Z Storm and S Storm once again deals with the rivalry between Hong Kong’s police and anti-corruption investigators

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L Storm review: Louis Koo, Julian Cheung back for generic thriller

23 Aug 2018 - 7:50pm

Much of the attention will be on Crazy Rich Asians this week but also worth a look are an enchanting Japanese animation, a brutal action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, a female buddy action comedy and Donnie Yen’s pet project

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: August 23-29

23 Aug 2018 - 7:01am

Filmmaker acknowledges debate about who is the successor to Studio Ghibli’s king of animation, but says directors must not merely replicate his success but pursue their own ideas, as he certainly has with Mirai, premiered at this year’s Cannes festival

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The next Hayao Miyazaki? Mamoru Hosoda has heard that question before

23 Aug 2018 - 7:23pm

Film review: Crazy Rich Asians

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Film review: Crazy Rich Asians

2 Oct 2018 - 4:39pm

A thoroughly earnest attempt to put a smile on the face of film-goers, this story of the troubled alumnus of a Hong Kong school who returns to teach there intersperses his pupils’ hopeful journeys with fight scenes

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Big Brother review: Donnie Yen is teacher in upbeat school drama

16 Aug 2018 - 6:58pm

This week’s picks include the Golden Bear winner at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, a Taiwanese classic, a campus drama with a conscience, more Abba-fuelled high spirits, and the third outing of Drac and his monster friends

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: August 16-22

16 Aug 2018 - 7:52pm

In a break from filming Mulan and post-production work on Ip Man 4, action star Donnie Yen talks about the serious intent behind new film in which he plays a teacher, and those rumours about fighting Jackie Chan

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Donnie Yen on Big Brother, antidote to downer Hong Kong films

16 Aug 2018 - 7:57pm

A brutal Joaquin Phoenix thriller, a dragon boat drama, Winnie the Pooh, a Hong Kong gay romance from 1998, and a Korean special effects spectacular are the picks for this week

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: August 9-15

9 Aug 2018 - 9:03am