Stephen McCarty

Bront Palarae and Rebecca Lim face off over the body found on the midway point of the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link that connects the two countries, in the Asian version of The Bridge. Picture: HBO Asia

Opinion

Asian remake of popular Scandinavian noir is a bridge too far

10 Dec 2018 - 10:56am

Producer Sophia Siddique Harvey (left) and director Sandi Tan filming the original Shirkers in 1992. Picture: Netflix

Opinion

Shirkers: 90s Singapore resurrected in long-lost documentary

2 Dec 2018 - 9:34am

Vikrant Massey (left) and Ali Fazal as Bablu and Guddu Pandit, two brothers who find themselves in a dangerous power play in Amazon Prime’s new Indian drama, Mirzapur. Picture: YouTube

Opinion

With Mirzapur, Amazon Prime eyes India’s millions of internet users

26 Nov 2018 - 1:56pm

Money-manager-turned-whistle-blower Dan David in The China Hustle. Picture: Netflix

Opinion

The documentary Wall Street doesn’t want you to see: The China Hustle

18 Nov 2018 - 9:39am 2

Produced by Hitoshi Matsumoto, or Matchan, the Amazon Prime show Documental pits comedians against one another in a battle for US$88,000. Picture: AFP

Opinion

Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Documental shows Japanese will laugh at anything

15 Nov 2018 - 5:49pm

HBO Asia’s ‘nasi goreng western’ Grisse pits a band of rebels against evil colonial overlords

Opinion

Grisse: a ‘nasi goreng western’ with Tarantino-like style and violence

27 Nov 2018 - 12:29pm

Parama Wutthikornditsakul is feeling peckish in “Pob”, the fourth episode in the six-part horror anthology Folklore. Picture: HBO Asia

Opinion

A ghostly tale from Thailand gets the HBO treatment

31 Oct 2018 - 12:30pm

The cast of YG Future Strategy Office, including Big Bang’s Seungri (far left). Picture: Netflix

Opinion

No business like show business: Big Bang’s Seungri in new Netflix show

21 Oct 2018 - 9:34am

Koji Higashino (left) and Koji Imada, the presenters of Amazon Prime’s Caligula.

Opinion

Don’t watch this: Japanese show Caligula on Amazon Prime

14 Oct 2018 - 12:29pm

A still from the opening episode of Folklore from HBO Asia, “A Mother’s Love”, which was filmed in Indonesia. Picture: HBO Asia

Opinion

HBO Asia’s Folklore: regional horror guaranteed to get under your skin

7 Oct 2018 - 9:32am

The Fuyang Cultural Complex near Hangzhou was inspired by landscapes. Comprising a history museum, archive and gallery, the building supports an undulating, wave-like roof that mirrors the rise and fall of distant hills.

Interiors & Living

A space boot grown from fungus? Year’s best design show big on Asia

2 Oct 2018 - 7:03pm

The series follows Tammy Chen as Li Nien-Nien as she navigates life and love in Taiwan’s capital. Pictures: Netflix

Opinion

A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities on Netflix: must-watch for lovers of Taipei

30 Sep 2018 - 9:41am

Ni Ni as Feng Zhiwei in sumptuous Chinese drama The Rise of Phoenixes, now streaming on Netflix. Picture: Netflix / Croton Media

Opinion

Netflix hopes Chinese drama The Rise of Phoenixes flies

24 Sep 2018 - 10:27am

John Krasinski (left), with Wendell Pierce, plays the titular role in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, an action-packed CIA spy-drama streaming on Amazon Prime. Picture: Amazon Prime

Opinion

Weekend viewing: action-packed Jack Ryan and Japanese drama Atelier

16 Sep 2018 - 9:15am

Lee Byung-hun and Kim Tae-ri in Mr. Sunshine. Picture: Netflix

Opinion

Essential viewing: K-drama Mr. Sunshine on Netflix tops the bill

16 Sep 2018 - 9:56am

Across the city, cash-strapped and overwhelmed refuges are desperately trying to find loving homes for abandoned and ill-treated canines

Long Reads

Why Hong Kong dog shelters are struggling to survive

10 Feb 2018 - 5:15pm 10

Audi’s new Sport RS3 has microsuede-finished door panels and a meaty, sawn-off sports steering wheel flattened at the bottom to give that heady whiff of Formula 1, says our reviewer, Stephen McCarty. Photo: Handout

China Business

Audi’s new Sport RS3 Sedan: a snarling sprinter with family values

15 Sep 2017 - 9:41pm

McLaren 570S Spider Photo: Handout

Business

McLaren 570S Spider proves a spectacular drive

26 Aug 2017 - 2:14pm

Mercedes-Benz GLA. Photo: Handout

Companies

Mercedes-Benz GLA 200 impresses in Hong Kong

2 Jun 2017 - 8:50pm 1

Before and after: the natural light of an ex-factory used to good effect in a client waiting room. Photos: Courtesy of Chris Dillon

Hong Kong & China

Latest edition of Landed a users' guide to Hong Kong's property market

27 Oct 2015 - 11:52pm

The Pinch, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin of Hong Kong University, is a stark contrast to the village's new housing. Photos: Olivier Ottevaere, John Lin

Property

Hong Kong architecture professors help Yunnan rebuild post-quake

19 Aug 2015 - 10:03am 1

Vivid Living's standing desk allows an easy treadmill workout while performing simple tasks at the computer. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Hong Kong & China

The Hong Kong pioneers who work at their desks standing up

22 Jul 2015 - 5:57pm

The pine, cedar, light steel and stone St Albans Residence near Sydney by Clinton Cole. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Interiors & Living

Humble homes go back to nature

23 Sep 2015 - 4:41pm

Aix Arôme Café in Shenzhen. Photo: courtesy One Plus Partnership

Interiors & Living

Book celebrates the city's best-designed restaurants

15 Aug 2014 - 12:36am

Dyson shows off the inner workings of the Hard vacuum cleaner.

Lifestyle

British inventor James Dyson says getting angry motivates him to create

7 Nov 2013 - 6:17pm 1

Late Greg Derham's fancy dress shop lives on

Interiors & Living

Late Greg Derham's fancy dress shop lives on

26 Jul 2013 - 5:46pm

Bound for glory

3 Dec 2009 - 12:00am

Mainlander Su Tong wins the Man Asian fiction prize with novel of 'immense charm'

17 Nov 2009 - 12:00am

Disgrace

20 Sep 2009 - 12:00am

Sex appeals

21 Jun 2009 - 12:00am

The Gaol

7 Jun 2009 - 12:00am

BOOK (1974)

3 May 2009 - 12:00am

Unlikely story

22 Mar 2009 - 12:00am

Rod gives good reason to believe

8 Mar 2009 - 12:00am

Elephant in the room

8 Mar 2009 - 12:00am

Filipino wins Asian literary prize

14 Nov 2008 - 12:00am

Five eye literary prize

23 Oct 2008 - 12:00am

HK$800,000 purse for works of fiction

7 May 2008 - 12:00am

Speaking volumes

16 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

Enright finds oddities go with new-found celebrity

12 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

The Metropolitan, London

9 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

High flier

9 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

The rail thing

2 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

Pier One, Shanghai

2 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

Not for turning

2 Mar 2008 - 12:00am

Food for thought and a feast for the senses

24 Feb 2008 - 12:00am

Andaz Liverpool Street, London

17 Feb 2008 - 12:00am