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In The First Taste of Loneliness, one of the highest-profile Chinese art-house film debuts of 2026, three generations of women – played by Zhou Xun, Xi Meijuan and Wang Shengdi… Read More
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Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 Swedish horror movie is one of the most haunting and innovative vampire tales in recent memory. Steve and I brave the cold as part of this year’s… Read More
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As part of our recurring seasonal Halloween Spooktacular series, Steve and I dive in to Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode re-imagining of Stephen King’s seminal high school horror story. Read More
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The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which closed on October 15, drew 277,027 visitors, roughly 40,000 more than last year and the highest since 2015. The 10-day event screened… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, James talks to Phil Whelan about more highlights from the Busan International Film Festival, including award-winner Midday Meal, and reviews new releases… Read More
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Shin Min-a is, for all intents and purposes, Korea’s first Disney Princess as she plays the titular royal in the lavish new K-drama The Remarried Empress. Adapted from Alphatart’s web… Read More
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Our Nolan-a-Thon arrives at the climax of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, a film that has become increasingly maligned by fans over the years. But how does it measure up for… Read More
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The sophomore feature from Hirokazu Kore-eda protégé Nanako Hirose, “Between Two Lovers” tackles a variety of potential hot-button issues, from polyamorous relationships to same-sex parenting, in its contemporary Japanese setting.… Read More
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In Netflix’s new comedy series Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?, Koji Yakusho stars as a world-famous Japanese actor who discovers that almost the whole of Japan has forgotten him.… Read More
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Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama team up for the transnational crime thriller The Blue Road, Netflix’s upcoming K-drama in which they play rival detectives on the trail of a viciously… Read More
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Live from the 31st Busan International Film Festival, James chats to RTHK Radio 3 The Brew’s Phil Whelan about highlights from this year’s edition, and interviews new releases Primetime, starring… Read More
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In Dead-End Job, Lee Jae-wook (Alchemy of Souls) stars as a desperate loser who takes a series of dangerous, increasingly bizarre part-time gigs to escape crippling debt. Netflix’s latest high-concept… Read More
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Three total strangers, with nothing in common except their name, are each inspired to take up writing in “Satoko Always,” writer-director Shuichi Okita’s surprising and inventive celebration of womanhood and… Read More
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An artisanal café in a quiet yet fashionable Seoul neighborhood provides the setting for a quartet of seasonal vignettes in Kim Jong-kwan’s romantic anthology “The Table: Day and Night.” Opening… Read More
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The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opens its 31st edition today with a renewed sense of relevance and prestige as it celebrates its newly minted status as an A-list festival… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, James talks to host Phil Whelan about Hong Kong LGBT+ drama Cyclone, AppleTV comedy series Brothers, Netflix thriller Unabomber, and Japanese smuggling… Read More
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Japanese comedian Naomi Watanabe plays a pop star who travels to the Taiwanese countryside in search of her ancestral home in the horror comedy Oh My Ghost! Oh My God!… Read More
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Nolan teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio to deliver a mind-bending action thriller that leaps back and forth between reality and our dreams, in one of the most iconic and discussed… Read More
