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Montreal, My Beautiful: Joan Chen Luminous (As Usual) Is a Hit in Quebecois Film

Montreal, My Beautiful: Joan Chen Luminous (As Usual) Is a Hit in Quebecois Film

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 11, 2026Montreal, My Beautiful, Xiaodan He, Joan Chen, Charlotte Aubin, John Xu, Pei Yao Xu, Canadian, Drama, Hong Kong, Chinese, Immigrant storiesComment

Forlorn at Finch, Middle-Aged at Midland: Hong Kong Immigrants Struggle to Get By

Forlorn at Finch, Middle-Aged at Midland: Hong Kong Immigrants Struggle to Get By

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 11, 2026Finch & Midland, Canadian drama, Hong Kong, Scarborough, Timothy Yeung, Anthony Wong, Patrick Tam, Nina Paw, Harriet Yeung, Theresa Lee, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Jaden Kwan, Immigrant experience, ChineseComment

Hey, I CAN smell what The Rock is cooking!: A hot mess called Skyscraper

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 12, 2018Dwayne Johnson, Action films, Die Hard, The Towering Inferno, Giant office towers, Neve Campbell, Hong Kong, Summer blockbusters