SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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First dates can be murder. This is especially true for Violet (Meghann Fahy), the heroine of Christopher Landon’s latest high-concept thriller, Drop, who receives anonymous and increasingly threatening messages on her… Read More
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Takuya Kimura chases 3 Michelin stars while butchering the French language in this Paris-set big-screen spin-off to the hit Japanese TV show. Read More
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With winter and awards season firmly in the rear-view mirror, cinema-goers can set their sights on some potential blockbuster entertainment from Hollywood in the next few months. Alongside the inevitable… Read More
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A young fencer wrestles with conflicting loyalties towards his mother and older brother in Singaporean filmmaker Nelicia Low’s visually arresting yet dramatically wayward feature film debut. Low is a former… Read More
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Since transitioning from animation to live action, Korean writer-director Yeon Sang-ho has struggled to recapture the success of his barnstorming breakout hit, the action-packed zombie thriller Train to Busan. He… Read More
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After more than a decade of gastronomic adventures on the small screen, Yutaka Matsushige brings his beloved travelling foodie comedy The Solitary Gourmet to cinemas. The film follows much the same format… Read More
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Characters who are impervious to pain, or have an exceptionally high pain threshold, have become increasingly ubiquitous in a cinematic landscape dominated by superheroes and comic-book characters like Deadpool and… Read More
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From Chinese blockbuster No More Bets to the Sandra Ng Kwan-yue-led romance Love Lies, films about the dangers of online scamming are appearing as frequently as the calls themselves of… Read More
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Animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 arrives in Hong Kong this weekend following a month-long siege of the mainland Chinese box office that shows no sign of abating. The film has run up… Read More
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Just weeks after steaming up our screens as a sultry siren in the erotic thriller Hidden Face, actress Park Ji-hyun is back in Forbidden Fairytale, but her role here could… Read More
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Mipo O directs Ryo Yoshizawa as a CODA, who wrestles with his responsibilities to care for his hearing-impaired parents. Read More
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Song Hye-kyo and Jeon Yeo-been star as demon-hunting nuns in this spin-off from the 2015 thriller The Priests. Read More
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Pixar’s Inside Out may have won an Academy Award and spawned a record-breaking sequel, but storytellers have been assigning personalities to our emotions and internal organs for years.British comic strip… Read More
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Forces of good and evil from the human world and the spirit realm go head to head in Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force, the second chapter in Wuershan’s spectacular… Read More
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An inner-city high school becomes the testing ground for an intrusive new security system in Happyend, the debut feature from Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora. Through the prism of this institution, the… Read More
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Adolescent force of nature Kitty Song Covey returns to Seoul for a second semester of romance-infused chaos in season two of XO, Kitty, Netflix’s spin-off series from their wildly successful To All… Read More
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For her debut feature, documentarian Nam A-rum takes viewers on a fascinating and surprisingly intimate journey through the last three chaotic decades of South Korea’s political history. Framed by her… Read More
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Attack on Titan is one of the most successful manga series of all time, selling more than 140 million copies since publication began in 2009. Hajime Isayama’s epic blend of… Read More
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