Goldfinger

Writer-director Felix Chong, co-writer of the Hong Kong crime picture Infernal Affairs (remade by Martin Scorsese as The Departed), reunites with the stars of that picture, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau, for what is rumoured to be one of the most expensive Hong Kong films ever produced. The Goldfinger is a 70s and 80s-set gilt-framed mirror maze of a movie that delves into investigations of financial irregularities and criminal conspiracy on the part of super-smug moneybags Ching Yat-yin (a perma-smirking Leung) and…

Sweaty-palmed Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs was one of the best films of the early 00s; in it, Tony Leung Chiu-wai played a cop undercover in a triad gang, alongside Andy Lau as a mole in the police force. The movie was remade by Martin Scorsese into The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. Twenty years later the Leung/Lau dream team is back for another cat-and-mouse cop thriller written and directed by the original film’s co-writer Felix Chong. Though actually this new movie shares more DNA with a couple…

Goldfinger have enlisted Tony Hawk for a joint performance of the band’s 1997 song ‘Superman’. Hawk joined Goldfinger at their show in Anaheim, California last Saturday (January 14). When introduced to their crowd at the House Of Blues venue, the skateboarder said ‘Superman’ – which features on the soundtrack for various iterations of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater – “has defined our video game series for decades”. Hawk then performed the song in full alongside Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann. Watch that below.…