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Boasting a cast of largely unknown actors and playing out almost entirely in the Teochew (Chiu Chow) dialect of eastern Guangdong, Lan Hongchun’s modestly budgeted drama Dear You has become… Read More
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Best known for her numerous collaborations with French New Wave auteur Eric Rohmer, veteran Hong Kong-born editor and filmmaker Mary Stephen turns the camera on herself in Palimpsest: The Story… Read More
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With the US box office currently dominated by micro-budgeted indie horror films like Backrooms and Obsession, Hollywood executives are increasingly anxious about the viability of mass-appeal, “four-quadrant” tentpoles in bloated,… Read More
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Beloved 1980s action hero He-Man returns to the big screen in his first live-action feature in almost four decades. Helmed by Bumblebee director Travis Knight, Masters of the Universe is… Read More
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Twenty-year-old YouTube creator Kane Parsons delivers an astonishing debut with the unsettling analogue horror film Backrooms. Adapted from his own web series that was inspired by a popular online “creepypasta”… Read More
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Not a lot of people talk about the 1963 winner of the Academy Award for best picture these days, but is that because Tony Richardson’s adaptation of one of the… Read More
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Unexpected Courage sees an ambitious workaholic learn on her 45th birthday that she is pregnant and will need to be in hospital for the remainder of her term. Drawing heavily… Read More
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Unfolding in near real-time, Kaouther Ben Hania’s riveting docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab recreates the desperate efforts of Red Crescent workers to rescue a young Palestinian girl trapped in… Read More
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Korean superstar Jun Ji-hyun makes her long-awaited return to the big screen in Colony, an action-packed zombie thriller that sees director Yeon Sang-ho revisit the undead mayhem that made his… Read More
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A trio of social outcasts unexpectedly develop superpowers in Netflix’s latest original K-drama series, The Wonderfools. Reuniting with her Extraordinary Attorney Woo director Yoo In-sik, Park Eun-bin takes the lead… Read More
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Since it premiered at the 2024 Shanghai International Film Festival, Guan Hu’s pandemic-set drama A Man and a Woman has been languishing in a quarantine-like limbo for almost two years,… Read More
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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a young couple forced to deal with a bombshell revelation in the days leading up to their dream wedding, in the wonderful new anti-rom com… Read More
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Compiling all 12 episodes of Yohei Kameyama’s 2025 animated series of the same name, together with additional scenes featuring brand-new supporting characters, this theatrical release of Milky Subway: The Galactic… Read More
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By turns haunting and beguiling, Sound of Falling, which won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, observes the lives of four young women growing up during four… Read More
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The third instalment in Longman Leung’s sprawling Hong Kong police saga is also the best, delivering an action-packed nostalgia-fuelled thriller that unspools during the city’s giddy pre-handover heyday. Returning stars… Read More
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Michael Jackson’s own nephew Jaafar Jackson has the daunting task of bringing the pop icon back to life in Antoine Fuqua’s much-anticipated musical. But the challenges amount to far more… Read More
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Anchored by a sensational central performance from Erika Toda, Netflix’s new drama series Straight to Hell spans 60 years of recent Japanese history as it charts the controversial life of… Read More
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When it premiered in April 2023, the first season of Netflix’s Beef helped solidify an unprecedented moment for Asian-American representation on screen, arriving hot on the heels of Everything Everywhere… Read More
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