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Karen Mok – Habitat for Humanity volunteer

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More Karen Mok news as she is the Ambassador of the Hong Kong Film Fest, as well as doing volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity. She continues to be a busy girl.

Karen Mok offers free service as ambassador of Hong Kong Film Fest

Despite of the economy downturn, the 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival will not be cutting costs. Besides arranging for 300 over films from 50 countries to be screened between Mar 22 to Apr 13, the committee has also engaged an artiste, for the first time, to be ambassador of the festival, to spread its influence outwards.

First ambassador of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Karen Mok, told reporters that she accepted the offer immediately and will not be accepting any rewards for the job.

Karen Mok is also planning to produce and star in film about former athlete Wang Junxia
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Task Force (Review)

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Task Force

aka Yit huet jui keung (literally: Hot Blood is the Strongest)

1997
Starring
Eric Tsang Chi-wai as LuLu
Karen Mok as Shirley
Charlie Yeung as Fanny
Leo Ku as Rod Lin

Karen Mok is in this movie! Sure, some other things happened, but I wasn’t paying much attention to that, as Karen Mok is in this movie! Karen Mok makes anything better. Even movies like this, that come off like a pilot of a TV cop show. It also manages to be a romantic comedy when it’s not being an action comedy or police drama. This movie is a Jackson Pollock-type splattering of genres. The jumping into the lives of the minor characters (such as Karen Mok!) add to the film, and keep it from being another forgettable Hong Kong cop movie. There are a lot of those, but don’t ask me for examples, as I’ve forgotten them all! (I bet now you wish I’d forgot stupid jokes like that. One day, one day…)



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