SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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In Be with You, Korean heartthrob So Ji-sub plays Woo-jin, a single father struggling to raise a young son following the unexpected death of his wife, Soo-ah (Son Ye-jin). A… Read More
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Films that explore struggling authors and writers block have a tendency to unravel into violence and hysteria. This is certainly the case with Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story.… Read More
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A womanising tour guide working in Hawaii falls for a beautiful woman with short-term memory loss, meaning he must begin his seduction afresh every day in Yuichi Fukuda’s fluffy romcom… Read More
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The only thing that’ll stop a bad guy with a gun is Bruce Willis with a gun, or so this ultraviolent revenge thriller from director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe… Read More
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A trivial disagreement escalates into a national event that reopens wounds from the Lebanese Civil War in Ziad Doueiri’s Oscar-nominated drama The Insult. Skewering everything from fragile masculinity to unchecked… Read More
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One of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s best-loved films remains Pulse (2001), his paranoid nightmare about the horrors of the internet and the breakdown of human interaction. News that the Japanese director has… Read More
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She has been dubbed “America’s sweetheart”, was at one time Hollywood’s highest-paid actress, and won an Oscar and a Razzie in the same weekend, but Sandra Bullock’s rise to the… Read More
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Today he’s one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but as recently as five years ago, Chris Pratt was largely unknown to the movie-going public. Television audiences had warmed to him in… Read More
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Japan has one of the world’s most prolific independent film scenes, one where soft-core pornography and eccentric auteurism regularly go hand in hand. The Limit of Sleeping Beauty falls squarely… Read More
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First-time director Sung Hsin-yin reviews the last 40 years of Taiwanese history in her tender yet powerful animated debut, in which an Americanised young woman returns home following the death… Read More
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A US Army sharpshooter finds himself pinned down by an Iraqi sniper in The Wall, a stripped-down military thriller by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow). Caught beneath the searing desert… Read More
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British actor Peter Turner’s memoir Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, detailing his romance with Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, has been brought to the screen by Paul McGuigan, probably best… Read More
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George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead remains one of the most intelligent and influential zombie films ever made, pushing the limits of practical make-up effects, while simultaneously advancing the… Read More
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The ugly side of China’s economic boom is explored in Walking Past the Future, which premiered as the only Chinese entrant at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But despite the… Read More
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Love is the root of all evil – or so you might surmise from Birds Without Names. In the latest film by Kazuya Shiraishi (Dawn of the Felines), Yu Aoi… Read More
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Celebrated Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó follows his sensational canine thriller White God with a visually enticing superhero origin story, struck from the socially potent furnace of European art-house cinema. Read… Read More
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The discovery of a woman’s body in an abandoned flat presents police detective Kyoichiro Kaga (Hiroshi Abe) with his most personal case yet, in this latest mystery from bestselling author… Read More
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Takeshi Kitano caps his yakuza comeback trilogy in fine style with a typically convoluted tale of shifting loyalties and underhand power plays within Osaka’s Hanabishi-kai crime syndicate. Honing in once… Read More
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