Reviews

Amber

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Amber is a fossilised tree resin, it is also a colour, and in this case it is a restaurant, and a very good one at that. Located in the Landmark Mandarin hotel in Central, it [more...]

Bo Innovation

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Bo Innovation is the latest restaurant in Hong Kong to earn a coveted third star in the Michelin guide, so naturally I had to give it a go. It’s worth mentioning at [more...]

Lung King Heen

Monday, March 10, 2014 // 1 Comment

It is a strange thing, that in Hong Kong, a city famed for its eating culture, and with something like 11,000 restaurants to choose from, there are only two restaurants to [more...]

Spoon by Alain Ducasse

Monday, March 10, 2014 // 2 Comments

Two Michelin Stars. This surprised me, not because I didn’t believe that a restaurant associated with Alain Ducasse was deserving of two stars, but because I had been [more...]

Cloud Atlas

Friday, February 28, 2014 // 1 Comment

  Ambitious, grand, confusing. The latest offering from the Wachowski siblings is a grand movie encompassing six different stories which take place over a span of [more...]

Rush

Friday, February 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rush is a film which documents the famous rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It’s 1976 and Formula one is just starting to become an international live TV [more...]

The Life of Adele

Friday, February 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

“Blue is the Warmest Colour” is the name by which this film has been released in English-speaking markets, and apart from the early part of the film, where Lea [more...]

Dallas Buyers Club

Thursday, February 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Matthew McConaughey is Ron Woodroof, an electrician working in Dallas. One day he finds himself in hospital after a minor accident, and he is told that he has HIV, and has [more...]

The Wolf of Wall Street

Thursday, February 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

The wolf is Leonardo DiCaprio, and Leonardo DiCaprio is the wolf. The Wolf of Wall Street tells the remarkable true story of Jordan Belfort, a man who built his empire on [more...]

Nebraska

Thursday, February 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

You’ve all gotten them in your email. Some lucky folk (yes, me) have even gotten them in real snail mail – that scam that starts off telling you that you have won [more...]

Gravity

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

I’ve never watched a film which has made me not-want to be an Astronaut, until now. Even though, at times, reality and physics is stretched, I found this to be an [more...]

Her

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Spike Jonze writes and directs a SciFi love story set in the not-too-distant future starring Emperor Commodus Joaquin Phoenix. Quirky, soul-searching, and [more...]

12 Years a Slave

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

One of many films in this year’s Oscar contenders to be based on a true story, 12 Years a Slave tells the remarkable story of a terrible injustice. Solomon Northrup, [more...]

Captain Phillips

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Tom Hanks is the captain of a very large container ship, the Maersk Alabama. The ship is hijacked by some pirates. The crew fends off the pirates for a while and (without [more...]

Philomena

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Based on the remarkable true story of Philomena Lee, an elderly Irish lady whose son was taken from her while she was a young girl working at a convent. Steve Coogan, who [more...]
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