SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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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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Song Seung-heon and Cho Yeo-jeong (Parasite) reunite with Kim Dae-woo, director of their previous collaboration, Obsessed, for a delightfully camp erotic thriller that flaunts a procession of ridiculous twists and… Read More
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In a year when Hong Kong cinema made history in its own backyard, and prominent filmmakers were chased out of their home countries for daring to speak truth to power,… Read More
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In the cinematic calendar, winter is traditionally a dumping ground for smaller movies with no discernible audience. Recently, however, the increased number of tentpole releases means that blockbusters are now… Read More
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A widow in her sixties with a pair of estranged daughters is confronted with a difficult decision following a family tragedy in Huang Xi’s thoughtful drama Daughter’s Daughter. Winner of the… Read More
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Set 200 years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim chronicles a power dispute in the Kingdom of Rohan as… Read More
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According to Chinese symbology, those born in the Year of the Snake are often regarded as intelligent, if somewhat unscrupulous, characters. In film, however, the snake has been portrayed as… Read More
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An ambitious, if ultimately unsuccessful, comedy thriller from first-time filmmakers Kurt Yuen, Trevor Choi and Cyrus Lo, Fresh Off Markham packs a number of pointed issues into a triple-stranded, Tarantino-inspired narrative set… Read More
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Controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice began showing in Hong Kong cinemas on Thursday – despite an official release date of November 28 – but the film had not escaped local censors… Read More
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Comedian Jimmy O. Yang lands the role of his dreams in Interior Chinatown – stylised on-screen as Int. Chinatown – playing a lowly waiter at a family-run restaurant who discovers he is… Read More
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Finding your one true love is challenging enough at the best of times, but borders on the impossible when one of you is dead. This is the central challenge facing… Read More
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They say Christmas comes but once a year, but festivities are starting early this season with the release this week of action comedy Red One. The film stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the… Read More
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