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The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
With the bursting of Argentina’s economic bubble, millions were plunged mercilessly into unemployment and poverty. Many live in appalling conditions and have no money to feed their children, of which thousands die from malnutrition every year. Raul Castells is the charismatic leader of the picquetero movement that vows to enfranchise the dislocated and demands effective responses from a government they believe is corrupt. He terrorises the dwellings of the rich and plunders their wealth for the benefit of the poor. Raul the Terrible intimately follows Castells’ passion for his people …
The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
As ambition has it, Lok (Simon Yam) is not about to give up his position as Chairman of the Wo Sing triad after a two-year term. Meanwhile, the cigar-smoking Uncles, whose approvals are pivotal, bolster their support behind the entrepreneurial Jimmy (Louis Koo). Initially a reluctant candidate, Jimmy changes his mind when his business prospects in China are threatened. Wo Sing, the oldest and most respected triad in Hong Kong, is seen by the Chinese authorities as the arbiter between the government and the triads. Power-hungry Lok and his competitor …
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