The first ever feature film produced by the Hong Kong Baptist University, “Pretty Heart” is a timely discursive take on the increasingly more competitive arena of education. Unlike Nattawut Poonpiriya’s “Bad Genius,” however, which is a razor-sharp, heart-thumping romp on the nuts and bolts of students’ modus operandi and motivations behind wholesale cheating, “Pretty Heart” dissects the pressure to excel by humanizing all the people involved in preparing the city’s secondary school students for a test that will significantly impact their future.
Pretty Heart is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
The film interweaves three storylines, that of between English literature teacher Chloe Lee and the estranged relationship she has with her father, Lee Lung Kei, a principal of a cram center, her blossoming romance with her father’s top tutor K.K. Ho, and the relationship they all have with the kids they teach, particularly that with Shu Ting,...
Pretty Heart is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
The film interweaves three storylines, that of between English literature teacher Chloe Lee and the estranged relationship she has with her father, Lee Lung Kei, a principal of a cram center, her blossoming romance with her father’s top tutor K.K. Ho, and the relationship they all have with the kids they teach, particularly that with Shu Ting,...
- 10/27/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
Arriving more than a decade too late in both its inspirational and foundational appeal, “The Secret: Dare to Dream,” a fictionalized adaptation of author Rhonda Byrne’s popular self-help book “The Secret,” traipses through familiar territory without enhancing anyone’s insight. This story, about a financially and emotionally taxed family learning to find light in the darkness and love in chance encounters, is a blundering attempt to hawk books while aping another famous author’s patented style. Littered with confounding clichés and hokey devices, director/co-writer Andy Tennant’s feature is the exact inverse of what a passionate romance should aspire to be, let alone one preaching the power of positivity.
Harried single mom Miranda Wells (Katie Holmes) has been stretched thin since the death of her husband a few years prior. Between work shifts at a fish market in New Orleans, she tends to her rapidly-decaying home and makes...
Harried single mom Miranda Wells (Katie Holmes) has been stretched thin since the death of her husband a few years prior. Between work shifts at a fish market in New Orleans, she tends to her rapidly-decaying home and makes...
- 7/30/2020
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
"Your thoughts attract things with a force you cannot see, but is definitely real." Roadside Attractions has debuted an official trailer for The Secret: Dare to Dream, a feature adaptation of the bestselling book "The Secret" written by Rhonda Byrne. "Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions, and philosophies throughout the centuries." Katie Holmes stars in this film as Miranda Wells, a struggling mother of three kids whose life is transformed when she meets a mysterious, charismatic man who believes in the karmic power of positive thinking, specifically the three-step process of asking, believing, and then receiving. The groundbreaking book by Rhonda Byrne has sold over 34 million copies worldwide, which means plenty of people really love this kind of positive thinking trick. The cast also includes Josh Lucas, Jerry O'Connell, Celia Weston, Aidan Pierce Brennan, Sarah Hoffmeister, and Chloe Lee. I...
- 2/13/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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