With all the media content reshuffling happening around the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party's foundation, Chinese actress Tang Wei has just suffered the same fate as time traveling and and spy shows. Tang was supposed to play Tao Yi, an early girlfriend of Mao's, but Mao's grandson, Mao Xinyu, intervened to have her cut out of the film.The late Chairman's family did not want the controvery that surrounds to cast a bad light on the family name. After being purged from the Chinese media before for her raunchy role in Ang Lee's erotic thriller Lust, Caution, she was briefly rehabilitated. Alas, it was still not enough to keep her inside the propaganda epic The Founding of a Party, due to open in mid-June. more ›

Tang Wei, the “Lust, Caution” star who was maybe-kinda-banned-but-maybe-kinda-not on the mainland has scored her first role since the 2007 film. She will be playing the female romantic lead, opposite Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung, in the upcoming Chinese comedy “Crossing Hennessy.” The movie is about a friendship that develops between two shopkeepers who are set up on a blind date. Source: AP more ›

This sounds like a joke, but it's absolutely true. more ›

We weren't really keen on seeing any version of Lust, Caution, but after finally giving in and ponying up the cash at the local theater (stupid, we know), we watched the sanitized version. Our impression of the movie, sans steamy sex, was that this movie wasn't really all that it was hyped up to be. However, given that about half an hour was taken out, we suspected that we didn't just get a child-friendly film—we... more ›