Chinese New Year Movies 2021: A Guide To Usher In The Year Of The Ox
Celebrate the Year of the Ox at the movies with Jack Neo, Andy Lau, Tom Hanks, and Tom & Jerry.
What are your movie plans this Chinese New Year week? Come to think of it, the movie house is the only house that's okay to receive more than eight visitors per day, from more than two households…anyhoo. If you decide to stay home, Tom Hanks’ buzzy Western News of the World on Netflix is a must-see. Here’s a roundup of the CNY movies you can catch.
Hilarity ensures when Ah Kun (Mark Lee) and Co. run against the PAP in the 1988 General Election! Guess who won?
Emerald Fennell — best known for portraying Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown and as the showrunner of Killing Eve — makes her directorial debut with this provocative #MeToo thriller where Carey Mulligan takes on toxic masculinity and sexual predators.
Tom Hanks teams up with his Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass in this Western (Hanks’ first!) about a Civil War veteran tasked with reuniting an orphaned girl (newcomer Helena Zengel) with her family. But first, they must navigate the hostile badlands. Nothing to do with the now-shuttered British tabloid newspaper.
Dramedy following four couples as they try to get their s*** together before the New Year. Stars Kim Kang-Woo, Yoo In-Na, Yoo Yeon-Seok, Lee Yeon-Hee, Lee Dong-Hwi, Chen Duling, Yoo Teo, and Sooyoung.
The famous cat and mouse take their altercation to the big screen in this set-in-New York live-action animation hybrid, with Chloë Grace Moretz and Michael Pena caught in the crossfire.
More content for the minors. This German animated feature is about a dragon, an orphaned boy, and a mountain spirit making their to the Himalayas to find the Rim of Heaven. Featuring the voices of Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Felicity Jones and Freddie Highmore.
Snowy Swedish thriller about a couple whose romantic mountain getaway is turned into their worst nightmare when they are being targeted by a sniper. The title refers to the laser scope used by the hunter(s). On Netflix.
An amnesia hitman (Andy Lau) and a struggling actor (Xiao Yang) swap identities, complicating the lives of the people around them.
An author (Dong Zijian) is sucked into a fantasy world he’s created in his novel. It gets better: the fictional universe also has an impact on the real world. Think Tron meets Lord of the Rings. Or something like that.
From the studio that brought you White Snake comes this anime about the boy-god Nezha who’s reborn in the modern world as a biker thug. Problem is, so are his enemies.
Hot dicks Tang Ren (Wang Bao Qiang) and Qin Feng (Liu Hao Ran) are in Tokyo to solve a mysterious case. But a Korean sleuth threatens to get in the way of their investigation. Also stars Tony Jaa and Satoshi Tsumabuki.
