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Aimee Carrero at the Your Friends and Neighbors season two premiere in New York City. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
TV shows and streaming video

Meet Aimee Carrero, who stars in Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors

Carrero, who rose to fame voicing Disney’s first Latina princess, reprises her role in the Jon Hamm-led show’s second season.

American cinema

How M. Butterfly subverted Western fantasies of Chinese femininity

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Korean drama reviews

Yumi’s Cells season 3: Kim Go-eun returns for a final romantic chapter

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TV shows and streaming video

Meet The Testaments actress Lucy Halliday, who’s already won a Bafta Scotland

Halliday plays Daisy in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, alongside Elisabeth Moss who reprises her role as June Osborne.

Actress Lucy Halliday stars in The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Photo: @lucyhallidayy/Instagram
TV shows and streaming video

Q&A | Asian-American Sheng Wang likes to be bored. His best jokes come from it

The Taiwanese-American talks about how jokes in Purple, now on Netflix, were inspired by small everyday events, and his bond with Ali Wong.

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Celebrity children

Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mini-me, bodybuilder-actor son, Joseph Baena?

Baena, 28, has been winning bodybuilding competitions lately – but what do we know about his relationship with the Schwarzenegger family?

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Netflix

Review | Beef season 2: Netflix’s chaotic follow-up is more overcooked than well done

Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton star as two feuding couples in a follow-up lacking what made season one great.

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Oscar Isaac (left) and Carey Mulligan in a still from Beef season 2. The new season co-stars Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton and also features Youn Yuh-jung, Seoyeon Jang, rapper BM and Song Kang-ho. Photo: Netflix
TV shows and streaming video

Hong Kong-set series The Season depicts the dark side of city’s high society

Jessie Mei Li, Toby Stephens and Karena Lam talk about playing cutthroat wealthy socialites in revenge drama The Season, coming out in June.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Who will win at the Hong Kong Film Awards 2026? Our predictions

SCMP film editor Edmund Lee forecasts the best film, director, screenplay, actors and supporting actors at this weekend’s 44th HKFA.

Mental health

Explainer: What is a death doula – and why is Nicole Kidman becoming one?

While birth doulas support pregnant people, death doulas support the terminally ill – and Hamnet director Chloé Zhao has trained to become one too.

Nicole Kidman has revealed she is training to become a death doula – but what do they actually do? Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Sex and relationships

Meet Robin Dearden, wife of Malcolm in the Middle star Bryan Cranston

Cranston is reprising his role as Hal in Hulu’s Malcolm in the Middle reboot, and just attended the Olivier Awards with Dearden – they are also the parents of The Pitt’s Taylor Dearden.

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Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden have been married for almost 40 years. They’re pictured here at the Olivier Awards 2026 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Photo: EPA
Sex and relationships

Who is Hacks actress Jean Smart’s boyfriend, Joe Pacheco?

The first episode of Hacks’ final season just dropped – and Smart, who stars as Deborah Vance, thanked her beau at the Golden Globes this January.

Style Edit

Style Edit: Rolex’s central role at golf’s star-studded Masters at Augusta

Golf’s biggest names battled the Augusta course, including winner Rory McIlroy and Rolex Testimonees Ludvig Åberg, Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa.

Sexual harassment and assault

Harvey Weinstein rape retrial begins in New York

The film mogul, who is accused of raping actress Jessica Mann, is being retried after a mistrial was declared last June.

Harvey Weinstein appears at Manhattan Supreme Court for the start of jury selection on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
France

French minister seeks ban of Kanye West concert in Marseille

West, 48, has been heavily criticised for making antisemitic remarks and voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler.

Kanye West performs at Hollywood Park Grounds in 2024, in Inglewood, California. Photo: TNS
Korean drama reviews

Perfect Crown: IU, Byeon Woo-seok lead romance K-drama far from perfect

A love story about a chaebol heir and a modern-day prince, Perfect Crown follows a winning formula but is let down by unrelatable characters.

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TV shows and streaming video

Meet Isabel Gravitt, who plays Tori in Your Friends & Neighbors

The 22-year-old – whose acting journey began with a Walmart trip – plays the daughter of Jon Hamm’s character in the Apple TV series.

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Asian cinema: Chinese films

What A Foggy Tale taught Will Or and 9m88 about Taiwan’s White Terror era

Will Or and Joanne Tang (9m88) reveal how their characters in A Foggy Tale inspired and moved them in different ways.

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Will Or (front) and Caitlin Fang in a still from A Foggy Tale. The historical drama co-starring 9m88, which is set during the early years of Taiwan’s White Terror period, won the best narrative film and best original screenplay gongs at the 2025 Golden Horse Awards.
Celebrity children

Meet Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa’s son, actor Joaquin Consuelos

Joaquin’s parents met on the set of All My Children and have been married since 1996 – they have 3 kids, including Joaquin’s sister Lola Consuelos.

United States

Singer Britney Spears checks into rehab following arrest: media

The 44-year-old is scheduled to appear in court in May for her driving-under-the-influence arrest, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Celebrity Families

Meet Grace Van Patten’s younger sister, Anna – who’s in Euphoria Season 3

The Tell Me Lies star’s sister is joining the new season of the HBO hit, alongside Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer.

Anna Van Patten and Grace Van Patten are both actresses – and Anna has just joined Euphoria season three. Photo: WireImage
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Meet Chloe Cherry, the former adult actress who plays Faye on Euphoria

Euphoria is back after 4 years – and so is Chloe Cherry, who was discovered by Sam Levinson on social media and has since starred in Charli XCX’s MV for ‘360’.

Chloe Cherry worked as an adult actress before being discovered on Instagram; she now plays Faye on Euphoria. Photo: @perfect_angelgirl/Instagram, Reuters
European cinema

Juliette Binoche isn’t worried about AI replacing human intelligence

Humanity and intuition are the secrets to great art, according to Juliette Binoche, who talks about her directorial debut In-I In Motion.

Hong Kong society

Why Cantopop star Hins Cheung’s new mentor role has polarised Hong Kong fans

Singer previously supported local social movements but now says he regrets past and will help rehabilitate 2019 protesters.

Reality TV

Who is The Traitors’ Maura Higgins – and why is everyone obsessed with her?

The Irish reality star was in The Traitors Season 4, Love Island and I’m a Celebrity – and may have Disney and The Bachelorette gigs in the works.

Irish reality TV star Maura Higgins has been the talk of the town lately. Photo: AP
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Why these 3 Hong Kong comedies from the 1970s and 80s became local favourites

Itchy Fingers, Pom Pom and Where’s Officer Tuba? were mainstream films that shone amid the proliferation of kung fu and action comedies.

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Jacky Cheung (left) and Sammo Hung in a still from Where’s Officer Tuba?, a popular Hong Kong comedy film from 1986.
Jewellery

The rise of the ear cuff, the painless statement accessory

Hollywood stars, from Nicole Kidman to Margot Robbie and Hailey Bieber, have embraced the trend that has swept through the jewellery world.

Royalty

Meet Queen Elizabeth’s youngest grandchild, James, who was at Easter service

James, Earl of Wessex, was seen mingling with Kate Middleton at Windsor Castle this weekend – alongside King Charles and Prince William.

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