James Marsh
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The food of ethnically diverse Singapore is celebrated in this warm, sentimental tale of family roots and forgotten recipes by director Eric Khoo (In the Room). Khoo’s film is a… Read More
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South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho made history at the Cannes Film Festival last month when his new movie, Parasite , became the first from his homeland to win the Palme… Read More
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K-pop artists Jung Eun-ji (from the girl band Apink) and Lee Sung-yeol (of boy band Infinite) make their big screen debuts in first-time director You Sun-dong’s supernatural thriller. They form… Read More
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When the time-travelling shenanigans of 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past inadvertently erased the events of 2006’s much-maligned X-Men: The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox’s Marvel-adjacent franchise was gifted the… Read More
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Seth Rogen plays a disgruntled online journalist who is hired as the new speechwriter for his former babysitter (Charlize Theron), now the Secretary of State, as she launches her Presidential… Read More
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The mighty atomic kaiju returns in the 35th official Toho movie, and the third instalment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, after 2014’s Godzilla and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island. This time out, Gojira… Read More
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In Birthday, South Korean heavyweights Sul Kyung-gu and Jeon Do-yeon deliver a masterclass in on-screen bereavement as parents grieving after their son’s death in the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster. Viewers… Read More
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Allison Williams and Logan Browning play rival cellists in a delightfully bonkers horror film that takes audiences on a bonkers, twisty-turny ride that defies your wildest expectations. Watch The Perfection… Read More
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Will Smith fills the mighty big shoes…or lamp…vacated by Robin Williams, in Disney’s latest live-action remake of a revered animated classic. Guy Ritchie directs, and amazingly, it all works far… Read More
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Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson constructs this brilliantly immersive First World War documentary from hundreds of hours of unseen footage, to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Armistice. Download the… Read More
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What if Superman was evil? That’s the high-concept pitch of Brightburn, a super-villain origin story produced by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, and written by his brothers Brian… Read More
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Sixty-five years after the release of Godzilla, nothing has withered the impact or influence of this atomic-fuelled Japanese masterpiece. Conceived as a direct response to King Kong, which enjoyed a… Read More
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Keanu Reeves returns once again as the retired assassin, who now has the global underworld on his trail. Read More
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The last few years have produced a slew of riveting survival thrillers, pitting Man vs Nature in some of the most hostile environments imaginable. Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar for… Read More
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Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong Chau-sang was the toast of northern Italy this month, when he received the Golden Mulberry award for outstanding achievement at the 21st Far East Film… Read More
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Like the lank-haired spirit of Hideo Nakata’s J-horror classic Ring, “krasue” are similarly malevolent female demons, prolific throughout southeast Asian folklore. Manifesting as a floating head that trails its internal… Read More
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Ryan Reynolds channels a family-friendly Deadpool performance into the voice of Pikachu, Pokémon’s iconic yellow fuzzball, a hotshot sleuth with crippling amnesia, who teams up with the son of his… Read More
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Cannes Best Actor winner Marcello Fonti gives an incredible performance as the lowly proprietor of a dog salon, whose life becomes violently intertwined with that of a local hoodlum in… Read More
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