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From Quentin Tarantino’s violent blockbusters to Steven Spielberg’s family entertainment, and from indie gems premiering at Sundance film festival to popular Hollywood franchises making waves at Comic-Con, this is the place to go for features, interviews and reviews about movies both classic and new from the United States.
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Foot binding in China: tales from Yunnan women who underwent the practice

Foot binding in China: tales from Yunnan women who underwent the practice

Foot binding may seem abhorrent today but the resulting deformity once conveyed privilege and status, say some of the women who experienced the pain firsthand. 

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Cattle at Mayura Station, located on the Limestone Coast of South Australia. Photo: courtesy Mayura Station

Can Cadbury chocolate-fed Wagyu outshine Japan’s finest beef?

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Wang Zhenxi, aka Teacher Wang, is a mistress dispeller based in Luoyang, Henan province. Photo: courtesy Mistress Dispeller

This Hong Kong-raised director makes films about outsiders – as she’s one too

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The Tower of Heavenly Success with the Tan River in the background, in Majianglong, Taishan. Photo: Graeme Kennedy

The Chinese city where waffles, watchtowers and world history meet

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Chinese writer Hu Anyan pictured in People’s Park, Chengdu, China. Photo: Eric Mast

He thought his life was a failure. Then he wrote it down.

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Max Levy (left) is one of the talents due to take up a residency at Chef’s Room. Photo: courtesy Chef’s Room

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong and Macau, March 8-14

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Ryan Gosling in a still from Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Sandra Hüller co-stars. Photo: Jonathan Olley
Film reviews

Review | Project Hail Mary: Ryan Gosling is stranded in dull Martian clone

Ryan Gosling plays an astronaut on a mission to save Earth in this film directed by The Lego Movie’s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Anna Camp, the Scream 7 actress who just came out as bisexual

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Pixar

How Hoppers star Piper Curda hopes to inspire people in Pixar’s new film

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Pixar

With Hoppers, Pixar is back with a new idea. Will audiences bite?

Pixar bets on Daniel Chong’s latest film Hoppers to break through in a box office dominated by sequels and reboots.

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King George and Mabel Beaver in Disney and Pixar’s Hoppers. Photo: Pixar
Fame and celebrity

Timothee Chalamet faces the music for saying ‘no one cares’ about opera, ballet

Performance groups around the world clapped back at the Hollywood star’s remarks, while a German minister invited him to watch a show.

Fame and celebrity

When it comes to American accents, Australians like Rose Byrne are the masters

Don’t let Rose Byrne’s American accent in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You fool you. Voice coach Victoria Mielewska says Australians have a talent.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Shawn Hatosy, who plays fan favourite Dr Jack Abbot on The Pitt

If the Fear the Walking Dead actor impressed you in The Pitt, catch him in the sequel to horror-comedy film Ready or Not, coming soon.

Shawn Hatosy won his first Primetime Emmy for his role in The Pitt. Photo: @shawnyhats/Instagram
Fame and celebrity

Meet Sterling K. Brown’s wife, Ryan Michelle Bathé – who’s an actress

Brown plays Agent Collins in the Hulu show with Shailene Woodley, but what do we know about his wife, whom he met at Stanford?

Cinema

Why anarchist thriller V for Vendetta, 20 this month, is as relevant as ever

Political dissent, societal control, a devastating virus: 20 years on, V for Vendetta looks less like a film than a prescient warning.

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TV shows and streaming video

From Heated Rivalry to Two Strangers, how romcoms are taking over TV and theatre

A clutch of new romantic comedies are warming hearts this winter across various media. But why are they proving so popular?

Tom Blyth (left) and Emily Bader in a scene from People We Meet on Vacation. Photo: AP
Film reviews

Review | Hoppers: Pixar’s new animation is a hilarious, heartfelt animal Avatar

Pixar’s Hoppers sees a young animal-lover use secret technology to pilot a robot beaver to recruit real ones and stop a construction project.

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(From left) Mabel Beaver (voiced by Piper Curda), King George (Bobby Moynihan), Tom Lizard (Tom Law) and Loaf (Eduardo Franco) in a still from Hoppers (category I), directed by Daniel Chong. Photo: Disney/Pixar
Asian cinema: Japanese films

Who is Hikari, the Japanese director behind Beef and Rental Family?

The filmmaker talks about her journey from Osaka to Hollywood and how her new film with Fraser as a fake dad was inspired by her childhood.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Genesis Rodriguez, who plays Isabel in The Night Agent

The actress – whose father is singer El Puma – has also been filming season three of Lioness, in which she plays Captain Josephina Carrillo.

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Fame and celebrity

Hollywood’s new scream queen? Meet Isabel May, who plays Tatum in Scream 7

May, who was in Yellowstone prequels 1883 and 1923 and is set to star in films with J.Lo, joins Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell in Scream 7.

Isabel May stars in Scream 7. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
Fame and celebrity

Who is Isabella Wei, the Hong Kong actress who plays Posy Li in Bridgerton?

The 21-year-old Hong Kong actress has also starred in 1899, The Crow with Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs, and Black Doves with Keira Knightley.

Isabella Wei stars in Netflix’s Bridgerton. Photo: @izabearlur/Instagram
Paramount

Paramount poised to acquire Warner Bros after Netflix drops bid

A Paramount merger with Warner Bros would unite two major Hollywood studios, two streaming platforms and two news operations.

Sundance Film Festival

The non-profit film fund helping Chris Pine and others make movies for good

Harbour Fund uses rich donors to finance films with ‘transcendent’ messages that otherwise might never be made in a risk-averse industry.

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Style Edit

Style Edit: Rolex just presented a Masterclass with Cameron Bailey

The session with Cameron Bailey, CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival, forms part of Rolex’s much wider Perpetual Arts Initiative.

Since 2025, Rolex has partnered with the National Film and Television School (NFTS) Masterclass programme, a globally respected forum that invites students into close dialogue with some of the industry’s most influential thinkers and makers. Photo: Handout
K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop

‘It was insane’: Anderson .Paak on making his debut film K-Pops!

K-Pops! explores family bonds through music and was inspired by Paak’s pandemic bonding over K-pop with his son – who now prefers Slipknot.

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Asian cinema

10 of the best movies from the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival

Controversy overshadowed an engaging selection at this year’s Berlinale, the best of which included Rose, Josephine and Queen at Sea.

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Britain

Bafta and BBC apologise for racial slur during awards show

Tourette’s campaigner ‘mortified’ after he shouted a racial slur at the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday night.

From left, John Davidson, Dottie Achenbach and Robert Aramayo at the Baftas nominees’ party in London on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Crime

Son of slain director Rob Reiner pleads not guilty to parents’ murder

Nick Reiner faces two counts of first-degree murder over the double killing that sent shock waves through Hollywood.

Nick Reiner in court on Monday. Photo: Pool via Reuters
Fame and celebrity

Meet Charlotte Mellington, who plays young Catherine in Wuthering Heights

The 14-year-old stars in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel alongside Owen Cooper, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Michael Bergin, the ex Calvin Klein model who dated Carolyn Bessette

Ryan Murphy’s new series Love Story shines a spotlight on the romance between Bessette and JFK Jr – but what about her Baywatch actor ex?

Fame and celebrity

Meet Jackson White’s mother, Katey Sagal, who’s also in Hulu’s Tell Me Lies

White – who stars in the Hulu show with Grace Van Patten – just opened up about his family life on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast.

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Jackson White and his mother, actress Katey Sagal, co-star in Tell Me Lies. Photos: @KateySagal/X, @jacksonwhite/Instagram
Hollywood

Why does Hollywood keep remaking old stories like Wuthering Heights?

Much like superhero reboots targeted at men, period drama remakes like Wuthering Heights continue to find favour with female audiences.

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Jacob Elordi (left) and Margot Robbie in a still from Wuthering Heights. The latest remake is an example of one of Hollywood’s favourite hobbies: adapting classic novels about women in the 19th century over and over. Photo: TNS
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Why Saving Face is the most important Asian-American lesbian film ever made

Alice Wu fought to film Saving Grace with an all Asian-American cast, and the film inspired a generation of Asian-American filmmakers.

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Fame and celebrity

What you need to know about Daryl Hannah and JFK Jr’s romance

The Blade Runner actress, now married to Neil Young, had a romance with the late JFK Jr before he eventually wed Carolyn Bessette.

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