SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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Beloved 1980s action hero He-Man returns to the big screen in his first live-action feature in almost four decades. Helmed by Bumblebee director Travis Knight, Masters of the Universe is… Read More
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Twenty-year-old YouTube creator Kane Parsons delivers an astonishing debut with the unsettling analogue horror film Backrooms. Adapted from his own web series that was inspired by a popular online “creepypasta”… Read More
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Unexpected Courage sees an ambitious workaholic learn on her 45th birthday that she is pregnant and will need to be in hospital for the remainder of her term. Drawing heavily… Read More
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Unfolding in near real-time, Kaouther Ben Hania’s riveting docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab recreates the desperate efforts of Red Crescent workers to rescue a young Palestinian girl trapped in… Read More
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Korean superstar Jun Ji-hyun makes her long-awaited return to the big screen in Colony, an action-packed zombie thriller that sees director Yeon Sang-ho revisit the undead mayhem that made his… Read More
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A trio of social outcasts unexpectedly develop superpowers in Netflix’s latest original K-drama series, The Wonderfools. Reuniting with her Extraordinary Attorney Woo director Yoo In-sik, Park Eun-bin takes the lead… Read More
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Since it premiered at the 2024 Shanghai International Film Festival, Guan Hu’s pandemic-set drama A Man and a Woman has been languishing in a quarantine-like limbo for almost two years,… Read More
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Compiling all 12 episodes of Yohei Kameyama’s 2025 animated series of the same name, together with additional scenes featuring brand-new supporting characters, this theatrical release of Milky Subway: The Galactic… Read More
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By turns haunting and beguiling, Sound of Falling, which won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, observes the lives of four young women growing up during four… Read More
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Anchored by a sensational central performance from Erika Toda, Netflix’s new drama series Straight to Hell spans 60 years of recent Japanese history as it charts the controversial life of… Read More
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When it premiered in April 2023, the first season of Netflix’s Beef helped solidify an unprecedented moment for Asian-American representation on screen, arriving hot on the heels of Everything Everywhere… Read More
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After winning the Cristal for a Feature Film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, French filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu’s directorial debut Arco went on to be nominated at every major awards ceremony… Read More
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Shifting gears between careers as a writer, entrepreneur, rally driver and filmmaker, post-80s poster boy Han Han adds another accolade to his cluttered trophy cabinet, scoring the biggest hit of… Read More
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One of the highlights of this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) is a collection of five animated short films from Taiwanese director Joe Hsieh Wen-ming. Awash with vivid… Read More
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Meddlesome matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) returns for her senior year at the Korean Independent School of Seoul (Kiss) in the third season of XO, Kitty, Netflix’s Korea-set spin-off… Read More
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The Russian city of Vladivostok provides the setting for Humint, the latest globe-trotting thriller from South Korean action specialist Ryoo Seung-wan. Set in the high-stakes world of international espionage, the… Read More
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The future of Hollywood has never looked more uncertain, with the encroachment of artificial intelligence threatening to eradicate jobs across the industry, while the impending merger of Paramount and Warner… Read More
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Produced under the guidance of China’s Ministry of State Security, Zhang Yimou’s hi-tech spy thriller Scare Out is the first contemporary Chinese film to tackle the issue of national security… Read More
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