Review

  • Finding your one true love is challenging enough at the best of times, but borders on the impossible when one of you is dead. This is the central challenge facing… Read More

  • Gwei Lun-mei and Luke Evans fail to make sparks fly in this sluggish action effort from writer-producer Luc Besson. Read More

  • Arriving more than 35 years after the cult classic from 1988, the long-gestating sequel to Beetlejuice finally arrives. Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder all return, together with a host… Read More

  • Andy Lau and Karen mock lock horns over the fate of the city in Hong Kong’s first radiation disaster movie. Read More

  • One of my long-running goals for our YouTube channel is to get my co-host Steve to watch more horror movies. This year has been especially strong, but no film more… Read More

  • KIm Go-eun and Steve Sanghyun Noh star in E.oni’s mould-breaking romcom. Read More

  • The on-screen coupling of Freen Sarocha Chankimha and Rebecca Patricia Armstrong, known collectively as “FreenBecky” to their legions of adoring fans, transitions to the big screen in Uranus 2324, a sprawling… Read More

  • Jackie Chan’s latest family-oriented action caper, Panda Plan, closes with a title card stating that “no animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture” before clarifying that “all the animal… Read More

  • Nick Cheung Ka-fai plays a former soldier on a quest to take down a Golden Triangle drug cartel in Go for Broke, a ludicrous action thriller from actor-turned-director Marc Ma Yuhe.… Read More

  • Rising Korean stars Hong Kyung and Roh Yoon-seo are gifted a romantic vehicle seemingly tailor-made for their inimitable charms in Hear Me: Our Summer. A beat-for-beat remake of the 2009 Taiwanese… Read More

  • Pachinko star Kim Minha is accused of murder in Chun Sun-young’s psychological thriller. Read More

  • Korean superstar Song Joong-ki jets off on his latest international adventure in director Kim Seong-je’s exasperating Bogota: City of the Lost. The film chronicles the transformation of an impoverished Korean immigrant… Read More

  • The heart continues to yearn for its beloved even after death. At least, this is the notion put forward by Beyond Goodbye, a new Japanese drama series starring Kasumi Arimura and… Read More

  • Show business is portrayed as a hostile work environment for women yet again in Born for the Spotlight, Netflix’s latest prestige drama series from Taiwan. Written and directed by actress Yen… Read More

  • Korean superstar Gang Dong-won plays a former slave who becomes the leader of a rebellion in Uprising, a lavish period epic from Kim Sang-man (Midnight FM). The film opened the 29th… Read More

  • Wu Kang-ren reveals a new side to his talents as he bares all in erotic drama The Chronicles of Libidoists. Wu plays one of four lonely souls living in present-day Taipei who… Read More

  • Colin Farrell delivers an extraordinary, transformative performance in The Penguin, HBO’s new limited series based on the DC Comics supervillain in which he reprises his role in Matt Reeves’ 2022 film The… Read More

  • The origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron are laid out in Transformers One, a new animated prequel adventure from Josh Cooley, the director of Toy Story 4. Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry,… Read More