James Marsh
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With the 97th Academy Awards finally upon us, here are my final predictions for what will win in all 23 categories: Best Picture: ANORA – WINNER Best Director: Sean Baker… Read More
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From Chinese blockbuster No More Bets to the Sandra Ng Kwan-yue-led romance Love Lies, films about the dangers of online scamming are appearing as frequently as the calls themselves of… Read More
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Animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 arrives in Hong Kong this weekend following a month-long siege of the mainland Chinese box office that shows no sign of abating. The film has run up… Read More
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Just weeks after steaming up our screens as a sultry siren in the erotic thriller Hidden Face, actress Park Ji-hyun is back in Forbidden Fairytale, but her role here could… Read More
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Timothée Chalamet transforms into rock icon Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s much-lauded music biopic, which boasts standout performances from Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbero. Steve and I bear… Read More
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Former Take That star Robbie Williams gets the music biopic treatment, but in a departure from traditional, the 90s pop icon is portrayed onscreen as an anthropomorphised CGI chimpanzee. What’s… Read More
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Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in the story of an unconventional romance that goes violently off the rails in this delightfully inventive horror-infused romcom. Full of twists and turns,… Read More
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Mipo O directs Ryo Yoshizawa as a CODA, who wrestles with his responsibilities to care for his hearing-impaired parents. Read More
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With the Oscars looming, Steve and I endeavour to see all the nominated films ahead of the ceremony, which brings us to this wonderfully dark and gothic Danish drama about… Read More
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Song Hye-kyo and Jeon Yeo-been star as demon-hunting nuns in this spin-off from the 2015 thriller The Priests. Read More
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Pixar’s Inside Out may have won an Academy Award and spawned a record-breaking sequel, but storytellers have been assigning personalities to our emotions and internal organs for years.British comic strip… Read More
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Mainland China stars Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran reunite for a fourth round of high-stakes snooping in Detective Chinatown 1900. The twist this time is that they are playing ancestral… Read More
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It’s that time again. Steve and I knuckle down and commit to our favourite films of the past 12 months. There will be laughter, tears, maybe even a little bloodshed.… Read More
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Forces of good and evil from the human world and the spirit realm go head to head in Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force, the second chapter in Wuershan’s spectacular… Read More
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An inner-city high school becomes the testing ground for an intrusive new security system in Happyend, the debut feature from Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora. Through the prism of this institution, the… Read More
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As part of our Every Best Picture series, Steve and I welcome critic Josh Hurtado to discuss this lavish spectacle of epic fifties filmmaking, based on the novel by Jules… Read More
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Adolescent force of nature Kitty Song Covey returns to Seoul for a second semester of romance-infused chaos in season two of XO, Kitty, Netflix’s spin-off series from their wildly successful To All… Read More
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For her debut feature, documentarian Nam A-rum takes viewers on a fascinating and surprisingly intimate journey through the last three chaotic decades of South Korea’s political history. Framed by her… Read More
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