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Donnie Yen’s stand-out appearance in John Wick: Chapter 4 is an excellent opportunity to raise Hong Kong’s global prominence, and the city’s government must step up to take it.

  • Less is more is the lesson director Sam Wong should take away from his latest film, a blend of murder mystery and action fantasy that’s pulpy and inconsistent
  • Nick Cheung plays a former detective with unusual powers who is recalled to solve a murder that’s been claimed by a woman who’s threatening more killings
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Golden Horse Awards winner Old Fox depicts Taiwan after the end of martial law, a time of rapid change. Director Hsiao Ya-chuan hopes its message resonates today as it did in the era in which it is set.

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Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt team up in this retread of the hit 1980s US TV series. Gosling plays an injured stuntman who is searching for the missing star of a sci-fi series directed by his ex (Blunt).

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In 1998, Rush Hour shot Jackie Chan to international fame. But after making the film with Chris Tucker, Chan ultimately decided not to abandon Hong Kong, and continued to make films in both places.

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In Hong Kong, watching a film from a mile away has become another new normal – thanks to the M+ museum’s massive LED screen beaming out across Victoria Harbour every night

It’s been 6 years since Crazy Rich Asians was released, with the film becoming an instant hit in the box office and a global phenomenon – but what’s going on with its sequel?

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, on Netflix, rounds off Zack Snyder’s instantly forgettable sci-fi series, with even less depth, humour and emotional complexity than the first movie.

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Ryohei Suzuki stars as playboy detective Ryo Saeba in new Netflix movie City Hunter, the latest adaptation of the manga of the same name by artist Tsukasa Hojo.

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If Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver holds little appeal to you, try these five related movies instead - they’re all amazing.

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As two Hong Kong films premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, we look back at the city’s cinema history at the event, including Wong Kar-wai’s many hits and Johnnie To’s successes in the 2000s.

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Singaporean director and writer Yeo Siew Hua talks about addressing the age of surveillance in his new film Stranger Eyes, Chinese philosophy, and why he is on the lookout for collaborations.

Christopher Nolan references and a love triangle don’t save Chinese drama Galaxy Writer, which follows two fledgling filmmakers navigating China’s commercialised movie industry.

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Abigail stars Alisha Weir as the titular 12-year-old daughter of a crime lord, who is kidnapped for a US$50 million ransom. Abigail is, however, a vampire, and takes her revenge on the extorters.

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Hannah Gutierrez, the armourer who loaded the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie ‘Rust’ is headed to prison.

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Flower Drum Song (1961), the first Hollywood film with a mostly Asian cast, was a rare box-office dud for Rodgers and Hammerstein. Was it a coincidence? We look back at the groundbreaking musical.

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Viva Erotica (1996) and Vulgaria (2012) are two contrasting Category III satirical films that reveal a different side of Hong Kong’s once-famed, often crazy adult movie industry.

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Martial arts film icon and the 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Sammo Hung talks about his movies, stars like Donnie Yen, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan – and eating.

As the government highlights cinema’s soft-power potential, observers say restrictions on state-funded projects are doing a disservice to young Indonesian filmmakers keen to make ‘intellectually challenging’ works.

Zendaya plays a young tennis prodigy, while Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor play doubles partners who are both infatuated with her, in this romantic drama from Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino.

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Kim Sung-su’s political blockbuster faithfully recounts the 1979 coup d’état that plunged South Korea into its darkest period to date, in a film full of grandstanding machismo and intimidation.

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Sandra Ng Kwan-yue, now a respected Hong Kong actress and producer, started out playing minor, unattractive roles in the 1980s. But through hard work and humility, she carved a path to success.

The biographical film, starring Marvel actor Sebastian Stan as young property tycoon Donald Trump, was announced on Thursday as part of the festival being held in France in May.

The music mogul and DreamWorks co-founder is now reportedly married a former male dancer five decades younger – but once upon a time, he was linked to Keanu Reeves

Finding Her Beat is a documentary feature film about a historic women’s taiko drumming performance in the US, with many involved in the project from the Asian-American and LGBTQ communities.

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Thrilling HBO Vietnam war drama, directed by The Handmaiden’s Park Chan-wook, stars Robert Downey Jnr as various characters and Hao Xuande as a Viet Cong spy working for the chief of the secret police.

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The same five titles dominate the nominations in all major categories of the Hong Kong Film Awards 2024. Post film editor Edmund Lee predicts the winners and reflects on who or what actually should win.

Iranian-French actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who won best actress at Cannes 2022 for Holy Spider, talks about her films that portray people defying Iran’s strict laws, and advocating for women’s rights.

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The producer-director of Amazon Prime series Fallout, Jonathan Nolan, who also co-produced Westworld, talks about how video games could increasingly become an inspiration for films and TV.

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