https://www.scmp.com/rss/520769/feed The latest on Hong Kong Cantopop boy group Mirror, including music news and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Jess Ma Jess Ma Hong Kong Cantopop singer Keung To has been fined HK$2,200 (US$280) for careless driving, running a red light and failing to display a probationary sign on his car while driving. Court documents show that the member of the popular boy band Mirror had been charged after ramming his car into railings on Caine Road last November and running a red light at a junction in Kennedy Town a month later. The 26-year-old singer, who reportedly obtained his probationary driving licence in February last year,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3349939/hong-kongs-mirror-star-keung-fined-hk2200-driving-offences?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3349939/hong-kongs-mirror-star-keung-fined-hk2200-driving-offences?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:47:46 +0000 Edmund Lee Edmund Lee 2.5/5 stars A bus blast on Valentine’s Day in 1998 that killed 16 and injured dozens in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, provides the blueprint for We’re Nothing at All, a trenchant drama that marks a rare rekindling of Herman Yau Lai-to’s passion for socially conscious storytelling after the veteran Hong Kong filmmaker’s mostly bombastic action blockbusters over the past decade. Anchored by visceral performances from a pair of singer-actors, who play the misanthropic gay couple at the heart of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3348613/were-nothing-all-movie-review-herman-yaus-grim-social-critique-too-heavy-handed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3348613/were-nothing-all-movie-review-herman-yaus-grim-social-critique-too-heavy-handed?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:15:08 +0000 Lo Hoi-ying Lo Hoi-ying A Hong Kong dancer left paralysed after being struck by a giant screen at a concert by popular boy band Mirror has for the first time shown himself moving independently in a wheelchair since the accident 3½ years ago. Mo Li Kai-yin, 31, shared an Instagram video on Saturday of him operating an electric wheelchair with the caption, “A 90 per cent introvert be like:” followed by a bashful emoticon. In the clip, he appeared to be in good spirits as he steered the wheelchair using his right hand.... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3348282/paralysed-hong-kong-dancer-mo-li-shares-video-himself-steering-wheelchair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3348282/paralysed-hong-kong-dancer-mo-li-shares-video-himself-steering-wheelchair?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:18:24 +0000 Ambrose Li Ambrose Li A newly restored 4K film featuring the late Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing will be part of this year’s Pop Culture Festival, but the government expects a 25 per cent drop in attendance over last year due to a shorter programme. Pat Wong Kit-yi, a chief manager at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, said on Wednesday the festival welcomed 800,000 visitors in 2025, but this year 600,000 were expected to attend. “We’ve condensed the festival by a month, lasting from April to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3346256/late-superstar-leslie-cheung-add-magic-hong-kongs-pop-culture-festival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3346256/late-superstar-leslie-cheung-add-magic-hong-kongs-pop-culture-festival?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:03:34 +0000 Harvey Kong Harvey Kong A Hong Kong dancer paralysed in an accident 3½ years ago during a concert by popular boy band Mirror has had a breakthrough in his rehabilitation, regaining some mobility in his right arm and sensation when answering the call of nature, with the help of technology and his religious beliefs, his father has said. The update on Mo Li Kai-yin’s condition on Saturday followed an earlier social media post showing him holding a stick upright and moving it around, which the dancer said would help... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3343598/small-precious-breakthrough-paralysed-hong-kong-dancer-mo-li?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3343598/small-precious-breakthrough-paralysed-hong-kong-dancer-mo-li?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:02:15 +0000 Edmund Lee Edmund Lee 3.5/5 stars A botched attempt to purchase a Mark Six ticket with the winning numbers snowballs into an emotional journey for a working-class family in The Snowball on a Sunny Day. Part sweet tear-jerker, part love letter to Hong Kong cinema and the craft of filmmaking, this Lunar New Year offering reveals an unexpectedly whimsical side of the writer-director Philip Yung Tsz-kwong. A radical departure from the gritty crime dramas that define his award-winning oeuvre to date (Papa, Port of Call),... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3343193/snowball-sunny-day-movie-review-family-comedy-doubles-love-letter-cinema?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3343193/snowball-sunny-day-movie-review-family-comedy-doubles-love-letter-cinema?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:15:07 +0000 Theodora Yu Theodora Yu An Asia-wide intellectual property festival will be held in Hong Kong in April, featuring Japanese musicians – including Cocomi as its ambassador – and pop culture exports such as hit franchises Gundam and Godzilla. Con-Con Hong Kong, held at AsiaWorld-Expo on April 4 and 5, will also showcase immersive exhibitions and dialogue sessions with Asian creators. “Con-Con”, which stands for Convention for Connection, was designed as a cross-sector platform with intellectual property (IP) at its core,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3343203/gundam-godzilla-headline-asian-ip-festival-con-con-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3343203/gundam-godzilla-headline-asian-ip-festival-con-con-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:49:51 +0000 Leopold Chen Leopold Chen A Hong Kong dancer paralysed from the neck down in an accident during a concert by popular local boy band Mirror is set to undergo a more intense rehabilitation programme, his father has revealed, calling for more financial support. Mo Li Kai-yin, 31, would embark on a three-year rehabilitation journey powered by advanced technologies, including regenerative medicine and an implantable microstimulator, his father, Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam, revealed in a prayer letter. “It is a thorny path we... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3340318/paralysed-hong-kong-dancer-mo-li-set-undergo-intense-cutting-edge-treatment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3340318/paralysed-hong-kong-dancer-mo-li-set-undergo-intense-cutting-edge-treatment?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:21:31 +0000 Fiona Chow Fiona Chow A Hong Kong court has ordered a trial to determine the compensation an employer must pay to a dancer who was paralysed from the neck down in an accident at a concert featuring the popular boy band Mirror. District Court judge Phillis Loh Lai-ping said on Friday she believed that Studiodanz, Mo Li Kai-yin’s employer at the time of the accident, was “evading civil responsibility” as its representatives had failed to attend any hearings in the case and had been uncontactable. Loh noted that Li’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3337047/hong-kong-court-orders-trial-compensate-mo-li-dancer-paralysed-mirror-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3337047/hong-kong-court-orders-trial-compensate-mo-li-dancer-paralysed-mirror-show?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:54:28 +0000 Denise Tsang Denise Tsang Asia’s largest K-pop award show, scheduled for Friday evening and Saturday at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium, will be downsized in light of the Tai Po fire, with boy band Mirror pulling out of the event. The group announced on Friday that they would not appear at the two-day 2025 MAMA Awards, following earlier rumours over the withdrawals of film stars Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng and Chow Yun-fat. Makerville, the 12-member group’s management company, made the announcement on Mirror’s Instagram... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3334450/mama-awards-hong-kong-be-downsized-mirror-withdraws-wake-tai-po-fire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3334450/mama-awards-hong-kong-be-downsized-mirror-withdraws-wake-tai-po-fire?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:25:08 +0000 Pierce Conran Pierce Conran Lead cast: Lee Je-hoon, Pyo Ye-jin, Kim Eui-sung Latest Nielsen rating: 9 per cent Lee Je-hoon returns as flashy wheelman Kim Do-ki, leader of the Rainbow Taxi vigilante gang, in the third season of the popular series Taxi Driver, which first parked its action-packed shenanigans on our screens in 2021. The formula is very much the same, though in a slightly slicker package, with gags, loud outfits and brawls punctuating cases of people victimised by a range of dastardly criminals, none of whom... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-drama/article/3334201/k-drama-taxi-driver-3-lee-je-hoon-and-company-kick-new-season-style-japan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-drama/article/3334201/k-drama-taxi-driver-3-lee-je-hoon-and-company-kick-new-season-style-japan?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:15:08 +0000 Lo Hoi-ying Lo Hoi-ying Fans attending Asia’s biggest K-pop awards show to be held at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium in November can expect to see Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh, the global debut of a new song by South Korean boy band Stray Kids and a special collaboration with Netflix animated series KPop Demon Hunters. The event organisers on Wednesday announced the highlights of the 2025 MAMA Awards, featuring performances by more than 25 acts, ranging from rookie groups to K-pop veterans. The award show,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3332683/michelle-yeoh-stray-kids-among-star-line-major-k-pop-award-show-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3332683/michelle-yeoh-stray-kids-among-star-line-major-k-pop-award-show-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:15:09 +0000 Pierce Conran Pierce Conran After a quiet October, the K-drama schedule is back on track for November, with a mix of new shows dropping just as cooler weather drives us to the comfort of our sofas. Read on to find out what to catch over the next month. 1. Last Summer Lead cast: Lee Jae-wook, Choi Sung-eun Lee Jae-wook (Alchemy of Stars) plays dual roles in the romantic comedy Last Summer, co-starring with Choi Sung-eun (The Sound of Magic). Lee plays twins Do-ha and Do-young, who have lived apart ever since their... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-drama/article/3330854/11-best-new-k-dramas-watch-november-2025-including-nice-not-meet-you?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-drama/article/3330854/11-best-new-k-dramas-watch-november-2025-including-nice-not-meet-you?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:15:09 +0000 Oscar Liu Oscar Liu Medical treatment for a Hong Kong dancer paralysed during a concert by popular boy band Mirror is now uncertain, with his father revealing that a major donor’s verbal promise to cover the expenses may no longer be upheld. Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam, the father of 30-year-old Mo Li Kai-yin, said in a letter on Saturday that the dancer’s path to recovery now faced a “vacuum of resources and a struggle of faith”, without naming the donor. “A promise [by] ‘… [to] cover Mo’s medical expenses’ opened... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3324654/paralysed-hong-kong-mirror-dancers-medical-funding-thrown-jeopardy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3324654/paralysed-hong-kong-mirror-dancers-medical-funding-thrown-jeopardy?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:47:22 +0000 Ng Kang-chung Ng Kang-chung A Hong Kong dancer left paralysed after being hit by a falling giant screen at a concert by popular Cantopop boy band Mirror in 2022 is suing a government department and 11 other parties involved in the show’s production for an undisclosed amount of compensation. The defendants have been accused of negligence and breaching their duty of care. Among those named in the claims are the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, a contractor it hired, and a Guangdong-based stage production house,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3319900/hong-kong-dancer-mo-li-sues-12-parties-damages-over-mirror-concert-accident?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3319900/hong-kong-dancer-mo-li-sues-12-parties-damages-over-mirror-concert-accident?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:33:24 +0000 Lo Hoi-ying,Emily Tsang Lo Hoi-ying,Emily Tsang A slew of both supportive and hateful online comments over Hong Kong pop singer Keung To’s recent fall into the sea reflects divided public opinion and the social media pressures young stars face, a psychiatrist and a cultural commentator have said. Experts who spoke to the Post said social media was a “double-edged sword” that allowed young celebrities to connect with their fans while increasing their direct exposure to hostility, a challenge not faced by stars in the pre-internet era. After... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3316241/keung-jibes-reflect-double-edged-sword-social-media-hong-kong-experts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3316241/keung-jibes-reflect-double-edged-sword-social-media-hong-kong-experts?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Jun 2025 04:00:18 +0000 Elizabeth Cheung Elizabeth Cheung A well-known restaurant reservation platform has issued a public apology after making fun of Hong Kong singer Keung To’s recent fall into the sea in an online post to promote its booking service, sparking calls for a boycott of the app. Eatigo, which offers restaurant bookings with bill discounts in Asia, apologised on Tuesday night, following the post on social media platform Threads, saying the promotion lacked “proper respect and sensitivity”. The now-deleted post said: “To all Keung To fans,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3315745/dining-app-eatigo-says-sorry-after-joke-about-hong-kong-singer-keung-tos-fall-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3315745/dining-app-eatigo-says-sorry-after-joke-about-hong-kong-singer-keung-tos-fall-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:07:46 +0000 Oscar Liu Oscar Liu Keung To, a member of Hong Kong Cantopop boy band Mirror, was rescued after accidentally falling into the waters off Sai Wan on Tuesday. About five hours after the incident, the performer posted a photo of himself giving the thumbs-up gesture. “Don’t need to worry, everyone, see you tomorrow,” he wrote for the caption, referring to a fans meeting he was expected to attend with three other Mirror members on Wednesday evening. Police received a report at 4.36pm that a man had fallen into the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3315688/keung-hong-kongs-mirror-rescued-after-falling-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3315688/keung-hong-kongs-mirror-rescued-after-falling-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:30:16 +0000 Wynna Wong Wynna Wong The father of Mo Li Kai-yin, a dancer who was severely injured by a falling giant screen at a Mirror concert in Hong Kong, has expressed shock over the acquittal of three backstage staff members involved in the show by the District Court. In a letter posted online on Saturday, Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam said the acquittals were hard to accept given the suffering his son had endured. The court on Friday found the workers lacked a motive to deliberately understate the weight of stage equipment,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3312613/injured-mirror-dancers-dad-shocked-acquittal-3-backstage-staff-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3312613/injured-mirror-dancers-dad-shocked-acquittal-3-backstage-staff-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 31 May 2025 15:35:16 +0000 Ambrose Li Ambrose Li A scandal-hit stage engineering contractor is facing potential liquidation after being implicated as one of the three firms held accountable for the injuries suffered by three dancers at a Hong Kong concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror in 2022. The mainland China-based creditor of Hip Hing Loong Stage Engineering Company on Friday filed a case with the city’s High Court for the firm to be liquidated, with a hearing slated for April 23. Dancers Mo Li Kai-yin and Chang Tsz-fun were hit by a giant... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3298979/hong-kong-stage-contractor-linked-mirror-accident-faces-liquidation-risk?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3298979/hong-kong-stage-contractor-linked-mirror-accident-faces-liquidation-risk?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:35:54 +0000 Lo Hoi-ying Lo Hoi-ying Hong Kong dancer Mo Li Kai-yin has made his second social media post in a week, reminiscing about Christmas with his girlfriend before he was left paralysed after being hit by a giant screen at a concert by popular Cantopop boy band Mirror in 2022. The 30-year-old posted on Instagram a pre-accident time-lapse video of himself decorating a Christmas tree with his girlfriend So Tsz-ching. “My only wish for every Christmas [with So],” the dancer said on Christmas Eve on Tuesday. The social media... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3292247/paralysed-hong-kong-mirror-dancer-shares-christmas-memories-instagram-post?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3292247/paralysed-hong-kong-mirror-dancer-shares-christmas-memories-instagram-post?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:31:57 +0000 Wynna Wong Wynna Wong Hong Kong Cantopop boy band Mirror will join a raft of stars performing to 5,500 people at Kai Tak Sports Park on Friday for a test event to gauge how smoothly staff can disperse concert crowds and the impact on the local neighbourhood. The “Chill Keng Music Festival” will take place at the indoor Kai Tak Arena and feature a line-up that includes Mirror, Cantopop girl group Collar, and various Thai performers such as Scrubb, Serious Bacon, Atlas, D Gerrard, 4Eve, Jeff Satur and Bowkylion. Sports... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3291340/hong-kong-boy-band-mirror-among-stars-perform-kai-tak-sports-park-test-drill?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3291340/hong-kong-boy-band-mirror-among-stars-perform-kai-tak-sports-park-test-drill?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:31:28 +0000 3.5/5 stars Few movies take their stories’ underlying messages quite as literally as Last Song for You, a poetic and poignant romance drama that urges its jaded viewers to reconnect with their younger, purer selves – and it has the audacity to employ the most unsophisticated conception of time travel to do so. Scripted and directed by first-time filmmaker Jill Leung Lai-yin, whose previous co-writing credits – for action epics such as Paradox and Ip Man 4: The Finale – belied the hopeless... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3291178/last-song-you-movie-review-natalie-hsu-melts-hearts-poignant-fantasy-romance-drama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3291178/last-song-you-movie-review-natalie-hsu-melts-hearts-poignant-fantasy-romance-drama?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:34:56 +0000 Emily Hung Emily Hung The Hong Kong dancer who was left paralysed after being hit by a giant screen at a concert by popular Cantopop boy band Mirror two years ago was undergoing therapy “like a professional athlete”. The father of 30-year-old Mo Li Kai-yin, the Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam, said on Saturday night that his son’s muscle strength had “obviously improved” following more than three months of gruelling rehabilitation. “The heads of the medical team always praised Mo’s performance, saying his training was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3287913/paralysed-dancer-hong-kongs-mirror-rehab-professional-athlete?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3287913/paralysed-dancer-hong-kongs-mirror-rehab-professional-athlete?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Nov 2024 08:33:43 +0000 A Hong Kong dancer has sued his employer for compensation after he was hit by a giant screen that collapsed during a concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror two years ago, with the sum payable potentially running up to more than HK$3.5 million (US$450,390). Mo Li Kai-yin lodged the application in February this year under the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance, which provides a mechanism for workers to claim damages arising from accidental injuries during their employment. The applicant, 30, who was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3283179/hong-kong-dancer-paralysed-mirror-concert-sues-employer-amount-may-reach-hk35-million?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3283179/hong-kong-dancer-paralysed-mirror-concert-sues-employer-amount-may-reach-hk35-million?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:55:01 +0000 Fiona Chow Fiona Chow A Hong Kong Coliseum deputy manager who oversaw the coordination of a series of concerts by Cantopop boy band Mirror told a fraud trial on Friday her government department was not responsible for stage safety or required to inspect platform installations, including a giant screen that collapsed and injured two dancers. Kiki Wong Wing-ki told the District Court the Leisure and Cultural Services Department relied on a report submitted by an engineering consultancy hired by the concert organiser to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3282950/hong-kong-mirror-accident-government-department-not-liable-stage-safety-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3282950/hong-kong-mirror-accident-government-department-not-liable-stage-safety-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:44:21 +0000 A former Hong Kong Coliseum manager has acknowledged that the government department responsible for its operation had not issued any guidelines on standards for suspension wires during a fraud trial stemming from the collapse of a giant screen at a concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror that left two dancers injured. But Wendy Tang Hiu-suen stressed on Thursday that Engineering Impact Limited, the principal contractor for the show on July 28, 2022, was responsible for ensuring all equipment design... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3282803/hong-kong-government-did-not-have-standards-suspension-wires-court-hears-trial-over-mirror-concert?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3282803/hong-kong-government-did-not-have-standards-suspension-wires-court-hears-trial-over-mirror-concert?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:14:13 +0000 The father of a Hong Kong dancer paralysed after he was hit by a massive LED screen at a concert by boy band Mirror two years ago has said he hopes justice will be served in a coming trial for his son “who has lost his years of youth and mobility”. Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam, the father of 29-year-old Mo Li Kai-yin, said on Saturday that the start of the 18-day trial had been postponed to October 16 after some of those involved in the case pleaded not guilty. “I hope that fairness and justice... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3281240/hong-kong-father-injured-mirror-dancer-hopes-justice-son-coming-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3281240/hong-kong-father-injured-mirror-dancer-hopes-justice-son-coming-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Oct 2024 16:10:41 +0000 1/5 stars All 12 members of Hong Kong’s reigning Cantopop boy band Mirror star in a movie together for the very first time in We 12, an unabashedly hollow piece of fan service masquerading as a mainstream commercial feature made for general consumption. In the past few years, the city’s faltering film business has occasionally been enlivened by the acting of several Mirror members, including Anson Lo Hon-ting (It Remains), Keung To (Mama’s Affair), Edan Lui Cheuk-on (Hong Kong Family), Anson... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3257109/we-12-movie-review-cantopop-boy-band-mirror-make-group-debut-heist-comedy-so-awful-its-litmus-test?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3257109/we-12-movie-review-cantopop-boy-band-mirror-make-group-debut-heist-comedy-so-awful-its-litmus-test?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:13:47 +0000 3.5/5 stars Three of the most popular members of the Cantopop boy band Mirror lend their ticket-selling powers to The Moon Thieves (also styled as The Moon Thi4v3s), a by-the-numbers heist thriller which nevertheless engages with its playful storytelling, slick visuals and some casually charismatic performances. While Mirror’s Anson Lo Hon-ting (It Remains), Edan Lui Cheuk-on (Chilli Laugh Story) and Keung To (Mama’s Affair) are the main draws here, it is the deadpan delivery of co-stars Louis... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3250929/moon-thieves-movie-review-boy-band-mirrors-anson-lo-keung-and-edan-lui-star-heist-thriller-thats-fun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3250929/moon-thieves-movie-review-boy-band-mirrors-anson-lo-keung-and-edan-lui-star-heist-thriller-thats-fun?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:15:17 +0000 Popular Cantopop boy band Mirror and their accompanying dancers were performing at the Hong Kong Coliseum when tragedy struck on July 28, 2022. A large screen measuring four-by-four metres (13.1-by-13.1 feet) came crashing down on the stage, injuring two of the dancers, one seriously. The accident halted the concert series, shocked fans and sent the 12-member band into a long hiatus during which they kept a low profile and critics questioned whether they would be able to bounce back. It also... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3248360/hong-kong-boy-band-mirror-bounces-back-sell-out-shows-unfinished-business-lingers-2022-concert?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3248360/hong-kong-boy-band-mirror-bounces-back-sell-out-shows-unfinished-business-lingers-2022-concert?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:00:27 +0000 3.5/5 stars A daring effort for what it’s worth, Back Home is an eerie occult horror that works even better as a thinly veiled, caustic parody of Hong Kong’s social and political environment of recent times. There are few precedents of its calibre in the city’s cinema and there probably won’t be many more to follow. While the immense popularity of Cantopop boy band Mirror isn’t exactly bringing world peace or doing everyone much good, some rising local filmmakers do have the band’s more... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3234401/back-home-movie-review-mirrors-anson-kong-impresses-opposite-bai-ling-hong-kong-horror-full-ghosts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3234401/back-home-movie-review-mirrors-anson-kong-impresses-opposite-bai-ling-hong-kong-horror-full-ghosts?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:15:12 +0000 3/5 stars Almost two years after his first crack at being a movie leading man in the frivolous entertainment satire Showbiz Spy, Anson Lo Hon-ting of the popular Cantopop boy band Mirror acquits himself rather more convincingly in It Remains, playing a guilt-ridden boyfriend trapped in a sinister dreamscape. The film is technically the second directing effort of Kelvin Shum Ka-yin, the Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-raised and Los Angeles-trained filmmaker whose feature debut, Deliverance, has... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3232016/it-remains-movie-review-mirror-boy-bands-anson-lo-makes-acting-breakthrough-supernatural-horror?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3232016/it-remains-movie-review-mirror-boy-bands-anson-lo-makes-acting-breakthrough-supernatural-horror?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:15:17 +0000 3.5/5 stars Part grisly murder mystery, part pitch-black absurdist comedy feverishly musing on destiny and free will, Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s follow-up to his award-winning black-and-white crime thriller Limbo sees the director again mining his flair for genre experiments in this nightmarish roller coaster ride. Mad Fate’s ridiculously funny opening sees Lam Ka-tung’s fortune-teller, credited simply as “The Master”, bury a prostitute alive in a cemetery in a feng shui ritual meant to cheat fate –... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3217567/mad-fate-movie-review-absurdist-hong-kong-murder-thriller-soi-cheang-lam-ka-tung-and-mirrors-lokman?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3217567/mad-fate-movie-review-absurdist-hong-kong-murder-thriller-soi-cheang-lam-ka-tung-and-mirrors-lokman?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:15:08 +0000 4/5 stars Members of an ordinary working-class family that imploded on a winter solstice several years ago try to pick up the pieces in Hong Kong Family, an ensemble drama marked by the assured storytelling of Eric Tsang Hing-weng and the range of wonderfully naturalistic performances he has elicited from the cast. Few could foresee the spectacular fallout that ensues when unhappy housewife Ling (Teresa Mo Shun-kwan) cuts her finger during the preparations of a traditional winter solstice dinner... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3200685/hong-kong-family-movie-review-teresa-mo-mirrors-edan-lui-drama-about-household-torn-apart-thats-one?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3200685/hong-kong-family-movie-review-teresa-mo-mirrors-edan-lui-drama-about-household-torn-apart-thats-one?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:45:09 +0000 2/5 stars Nobody, except perhaps intoxicated lovebirds on first dates on Valentine’s Day, should be expected to merrily sit through Love Suddenly, a Hong Kong ensemble romantic comedy so inadequately conceived and badly acted that it somehow makes 93 minutes feel. Like. Forever. Following four pairs of lovers or would-be lovers who find themselves in various nonsensical situations conjured from embarrassing attempts at humour, the movie manages to be neither romantic nor funny, and waste the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3199963/love-suddenly-movie-review-hong-kong-ensemble-romantic-comedy-starring-mirrors-anson-kong-fails?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3199963/love-suddenly-movie-review-hong-kong-ensemble-romantic-comedy-starring-mirrors-anson-kong-fails?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:58:16 +0000 3.5/5 stars A pop idol is born in Mama’s Affair, and the experience of attaining stardom at once allows the young man in question to put a tragic past behind him and restores harmony to his artiste manager’s quietly disintegrating family. On one hand, Mama’s Affair is just the latest star vehicle to shepherd the most popular members of Mirror, the Hong Kong boy band taking the city by storm, on to the big screen. After Anson Lo Hon-ting’s androgynous star turn in the frivolous comedy Showbiz Spy... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3188393/mamas-affair-movie-review-mirror-members-keung-jer-lau-make?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3188393/mamas-affair-movie-review-mirror-members-keung-jer-lau-make?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:15:12 +0000 3.5/5 stars Anyone seeking a window on life for the past two years in post-protest and mid-pandemic Hong Kong – a vaguely depressing experience – could do worse than watch Chilli Laugh Story. An amusing and sometimes unexpectedly poignant comedy, it was intended for release at Lunar New Year before a wave of infections with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 earlier this year scuppered that plan. Directed by first-time filmmaker Coba Cheng Tsun-hin from a screenplay he co-wrote with comedy veteran... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3184941/chilli-laugh-story-movie-review-mirrors-edan-lui-leads?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3184941/chilli-laugh-story-movie-review-mirrors-edan-lui-leads?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:15:23 +0000 2.5/5 stars Showbiz Spy is a pop-idol vehicle ostensibly churned out to make a quick buck off of Anson Lo Hon-ting, the Mirror boy band member who became a superstar overnight in Hong Kong this year by appearing in the gay romcom series Ossan’s Love on ViuTV. Frivolous yet harmlessly diverting, Showbiz Spy makes a half-hearted attempt at satiring the star-making system through which Lo and his band mates achieved their meteoric rise in the first place. We never learn the real name of Lo’s... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3157382/showbiz-spy-movie-review-anson-lo-hong-kong-boy-band-mirror?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3157382/showbiz-spy-movie-review-anson-lo-hong-kong-boy-band-mirror?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:04:53 +0000 2.5/5 stars The makers of The Way We Keep Dancing have their hearts in the right place, even if the movie about the plight of Hong Kong’s grass-roots performing artists is less an engrossing dramatisation of their stories than a needlessly bloated docudrama. The film does make a considered protest at the lack of support for Hong Kong’s creative industries, but any viewer expecting a competent follow-up to writer-director Adam Wong Sau-ping’s enthusiastic 2013 hit The Way We Dance – arguably the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3122233/way-we-keep-dancing-movie-review-adam-wongs-sequel-2013-hit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3122233/way-we-keep-dancing-movie-review-adam-wongs-sequel-2013-hit?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:10:11 +0000