SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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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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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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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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Following recent gender-flipped remakes Ghostbusters and Ocean’s 8 , Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson look to put a feminist spin on the 1988 hit comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as a… Read More
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Bollywood launches into the superhero arena with Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain, a gleefully big-hearted homage, not to the blockbuster comic-book franchises of today, but the golden… Read More
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Eleven years after Iron Man was introduced to unsuspecting summer crowds, Marvel Studios wraps up their unprecedented 22 film “Infinity Saga” with a rousing victory lap that bursts with emotional… Read More
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A young amnesiac and a grieving widower find a modicum of solace in each other’s company in the debut feature from Nanako Hirose, former assistant to acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda.… Read More
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With the release of Avengers: Endgame this week, summer season has arrived in earnest. From now until the end of August, cinemas will be packed with the biggest, most audacious… Read More
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Following on from acclaimed true-life thrillers such as United 93 and Argo, Hotel Mumbai recreates the horrific 2008 terror attacks in the Indian city, that claimed 174 lives and wounded… Read More
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After just five films, James Wan’s The Conjuring series has become the second highest-grossing horror franchise in cinema history, with only Godzilla earning more. The producer now brings Latin American… Read More
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Three of this week’s new releases in Hong Kong cinemas focus on the strained relationships between elderly or disabled patients and their hired help. In Oliver Chan Siu-kuen’s debut Still… Read More
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Mental disability has long been stigmatised in South Korea, where sufferers can be hidden away by embarrassed family members and shunted to the margins by an unsympathetic society. In director… Read More
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A team of inept narcotics cops open a chicken restaurant to spy on a gang of drug dealers, only for their cover to prove more successful than their crime-fighting in… Read More
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In the testosterone-soaked world of Korean crime dramas, Han Jun-hee’s Hit-and-Run Squad puts a refreshing female spin on its story of police corruption and professional motor-racing, only to lose its… Read More
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A team of homicide detectives go undercover at a top Tokyo hotel to catch a serial killer in Masayuki Suzuki’s crowd-pleasing adaptation of Keigo Higashino’s bestselling novel. Anchoring this glossy,… Read More
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