SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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After Charlie’s Angels bombed spectacularly at the box office, the prospect of another Kristen Stewart-fronted action thriller this soon would give even hardened K-Stew fans that sinking feeling. Yet while… Read More
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Created in August 1969, just weeks after the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019. To mark the occasion, Jagan Shakti’s… Read More
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Mattie Do is making history. Since emigrating from the United States in 2010, she has become Laos’ only female filmmaker. Her debut, Chanthaly, was the first ever Laotian horror film,… Read More
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When a long dormant volcano threatens to destroy half of the Han Peninsula, the biggest stars in Korean cinema are assembled to save the day. Combining the collective blockbuster attractions… Read More
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The struggle of a Malaysian woman to preserve the memory of her younger sister, who died at the hands of Japanese colonial forces, propels Zinnia Flower director Tom Lin Shu-yu’s… Read More
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This week sees the release of Ip Man 4: The Finale, the last instalment in Donnie Yen Ji-dan’s blockbuster action franchise. After squaring off against the Japanese military, British colonialists… Read More
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Taking its Chinese film title from Chyi Chin’s hit Taiwanese pop song from 1987, Somewhere Winter charts the faltering relationship between a Beijing university student and a Taiwanese photographer across… Read More
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The atrocities of Taiwan’s White Terror, a period of political repression, provide the chilling backdrop for John Hsu Han-chiang’s high-school horror film, for which he won the best new director… Read More
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Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, yet it can also be one of the most stressful. From the months of planning, to interfering… Read More
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The road to success has been a rocky one for Academy Award-winning writer-director Bill Condon. His films have grossed US$3 billion worldwide, and he has worked with some of the… Read More
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Shinichiro Ueda’s metatextual zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead caused a sensation at the Japanese box office in 2017, and at film festivals around the world. Its frenzied film-within-a-film… Read More
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The International Film Festival & Awards Macao returns for its fourth edition in December – a six-day celebration of the best in world cinema that includes some of the year’s… Read More
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Following a series of supporting turns in films such as The Hangover Part II, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Who Killed Cock Robin , American-born Taiwanese actor Mason Lee… Read More
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If you had the ability to see people’s fate, to know when they were about to die, would you tell them? Even if it jeopardised your own life? This is… Read More
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An elderly couple rekindles the romantic spark in their decades-long relationship after both are diagnosed with dementia in Lee Chang-geun’s emotionally wayward weepie. Strong performances from veteran leads Lee Soon-jae… Read More
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Asia has not always been at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Even in Asian cinema, too often it’s the men who wrestle with world-changing events, while the… Read More
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In You Shine in the Moonlight, Sho Tsukikawa’s adaptation of Tetsuya Sano’s light novel, a high-school girl with a rare terminal illness tasks her classmate with completing a bucket list… Read More
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My People, My Country, an epic seven-part anthology to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, chronicles the nation’s greatest technological and cultural achievements.… Read More
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