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THE HKJC GETS ALL GIDDY AND DARK AND VERY WEIRD!
It’s deep, yet shallow, sissy, yet masculine, childlike though chilling and giving off a Halloween and Chung Yeung vibe for Hong Kong racing with rather spooky horsey dance moves borrowed from Gangham style by some people in the scary looking empty setting of Happy Valley racecourse. Far better and more “Thriller” if it was filmed at midnight in the Happy Valley cemetery. Especially deep and probing are the thought provoking deluge of naughty “lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lahs

Hans Ebert
Nov 31 min read


ROBERT MITCHUM: UNLIKE TRUMPTY DUMPTY, A REAL TOUGH GUY!
If you thought Robert DeNiro was menacing and and just plain wrong when playing the role of Max Cady, especially in that memorable scene where he asks actress Juliette Lewis, playing the underage Danielle in the remake of “Cape Fear”, let’s just remember that he was playing the role originally created by Robert Mitchum. One of the greatest film noir actors ever, Robert Mitchum had a disdain for Hollywood pretentiousness and would have had for breakfast some of the pomposity a

Hans Ebert
Oct 292 min read


WHEN WE HAVE ENTERED THE AGE OF THE DULLARDS
Was watching something or another the other day and thought to myself, “Have we run out of ideas?” Did every creative idea that became reality run out of steam maybe twenty years ago and, like life itself, is this all one rerun- the music, the advertising, the inspiration to dare to dream, your heart knowing when you have fallen in love, and also knowing when you have fallen out of love and when love takes a backseat to things that are puerile? Or, unlike Alice, did we stop b

Hans Ebert
Oct 294 min read
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