SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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Directed by Lars Kraume, The Silent Revolution has been selected as the opening film of the KINO/18 German Film Festival. It tells the story of a class of high school… Read More
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A mysterious beast is running amok in the royal court in Monstrum, the first in a wave of upcoming Korean fantasies to blend period drama with full-blown horror. Zombie thriller… Read More
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Julianne Moore’s involvement in a project is normally as reliable a validation of quality filmmaking as one could hope for. But in the case of Bel Canto, Paul Weitz’s adaptation… Read More
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A Mumbai street magician embarks on a European odyssey and gets a taste of the immigrant experience in Ken Scott’s ambitious adaptation of Romain Puertolas’ bestselling novel. The Extraordinary Journey… Read More
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Almost eight years after production began on Forever Young, the ambitious historical epic finally arrives on Hong Kong screens with precious little fanfare. Despite an all-star Chinese cast, writer-director Li… Read More
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It has been 31 years since the predator first landed on Earth to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Four wildly inferior sequels later, it falls to writer-director Shane Black… Read More
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Inspired by a real-life online query that went viral in Japan and spawned a song and bestselling manga, When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead is… Read More
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An actress of Emma Thompson’s calibre is rarely given a lead role worthy of her talents. In The Children Act, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, the Oscar-winning actress… Read More
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In his deeply unsettling feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster subjects a grieving suburban family to unspeakable supernatural horrors. While much of mainstream horror looks to recapture the commercial success of… Read More
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Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen ( Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ) completes his Republican Era trilogy with a riotous tale of betrayal, revenge and branded backsides set in 1930s… Read More
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Based on the exploits of South Korean secret agent “Black Venus”, Yoon Jong-bin’s The Spy Gone North details how army general Park Suk-young (played by Hwang Jung-min) brokered a bogus… Read More
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Saket Chaudhary’s Bollywood comedy Hindi Medium arrives in Hong Kong following successful runs at both the Indian and Chinese box office, and its tackling of education-related themes is sure to… Read More
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Johnnie To Kei-fung’s Drug War (2012) was an unflinching exposé of China’s drug trade. Often considered the Hong Kong director’s best feature of the past decade, the gritty film details every aspect… Read More
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Veteran Japanese actress Sayuri Yoshinaga completes her thematically connected “Northern Trilogy” with a sweeping and at times experimental melodrama in which an ageing war widow wrestles with senility and reconnects… Read More
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“Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters,” goes a line in the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea. Our fascination with the ocean has long struck a balance between… Read More
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Although barely six months have passed since his adaptation of Joo Ho-min’s webtoon Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds became a box-office sensation, writer-director Kim Yong-hwa has delivered a… Read More
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Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor at last year’s Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a suicidal war veteran who tracks down runaways in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal yet occasionally… Read More
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Adapted from a novel by Japanese porn star Mana Sakura, ironically titled The Lowlife unfolds over a single weekend and follows a trio of women through their experiences in Tokyo’s… Read More
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