Review
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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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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
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, James talks to Phil Whelan about Brad Pitt’s new dog survival thriller Heart of the Beast, box office smash Toy Story 5,… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, James chats with host Phil Whelan about the 78th Emmys, winners The Pitt and Widow’s Bay, as well as this week’s new… Read More
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Celebrated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the pages of Japanese manga for inspiration once again, unveiling this thoughtful adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed 2021 coming-of-age one-shot, Look Back. Reuniting actresses… Read More
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Shaun the Sheep turns mad scientist in his mischievous third big-screen outing, unleashing a hirsute horror that terrorises the sleepy farm community after an unconventional attempt to grow pumpkins. Realised… Read More
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The debut feature from Singaporean writer-director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla is a semi-autobiographical story of a family’s separation, as seen through the eyes of a seven year old girl. Struggling… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, I chat to Phil Whelan about the week’s new releases in Hong Kong, including Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh in Mayday, Chinese… Read More
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Writer-director Wen Muye’s bombastic anti-war drama Once Upon a Time in the Middle East arrives in Hong Kong having already grossed a whopping 2 billion yuan (US$298 million) at the… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, James chats with host Phil Whelan about this week’s new releases in Hong Kong: survival thriller sequel Fall 2: Deadpoint, Eli Roth’s… Read More
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Shunsuke Michieda of the Japanese boy band Naniwa Danshi reunites with director Takahiro Miki after the success of 2022’s Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight for another… Read More
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A righteous public security officer embarks on a 40-year game of cat and mouse with a suspected Kuomintang sleeper agent in I Know Who You Are, a sporadically entertaining historical… Read More
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Steve and I have reached film #6 in our deep dive back into the filmography of Christopher Nolan, and it’s a big one. His second Batman outing would come to… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, James chats with Phil Whelan about Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, who sadly left us this week, we catch up on the… Read More
