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25 July 2012 #437

Where will you be this weekend? Will it be at the theatre watching Ivan Heng and his cast perform La Cage Aux Folles? Or at home or in a pub catching the first weekend of the London Olympics? It's as though Pride month arrived a full week early!

Rest assured that the stars are truly in alignment. Hysteria, our pick for this week, is appropriately campy, of LGBT interest, sex positive, and hysterical. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a feminist and socialist, Hysteria is a period comedy about the invention of the vibrator (and yes, that vibrator).

Mixing hysteria and drama is Red Lights, a mystery-thriller pitting a pair of scientists against a world famous psychic. They're out to destroy him as a charlatan and he's out to destroy their careers! With a story like this, it's only appropriate that the cast consist of high wattage actors who can chew up the scenery — Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy.

Fans of wuxia action have Gordon Chan to thank for The Four, a mystery-thriller pitting two rival government agencies with superpowered detectives against a power-mad villain out to sow chaos in the realm. In other words, a mediaeval X-Men in a wuxia genre setting. How cool is that?

Decades after they stopped making films entirely, the original Moe, Larry, and Curly get a feature film tribute in The Three Stooges. Aside from the poke in the eye, slap in the face, punch in the nose and hammer to the head, it's safe to expect a whole lot of mayhem!

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

Hysteria

"You may think this is no laughing matter but in time to come, you'll be laughing about it!" Hysteria may well be a comedy whose time has finally come. So what makes a film about the invention of the vibrator (i.e. the best friend of every girl and some guys too) such a riotous comedy? The chief reason why Hysteria works is the evocation of its period setting. Would you believe that in the Victorian age, hysteria was believed to be an actual women's ailment requiring pelvic massages to be performed once a week by medical doctors?

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