Jennifer Kent’s thrilling 2014 debut The Babadook poses the questions no one dare ask about motherhood. It’s a supernatural psychological horror film even Stephen King called ‘deeply disturbing’.
The film, directed by Sean Baker, stars Mikey Madison as a dancer who strikes gold with a wealthy client, only to face the wrath of his Russian oligarch parents.
In Fellow Travelers, Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey abandons his famous swagger to play a submissive partner in a queer relationship. The actor opens up about how the role has given him strength.
Sandy Lam was star guest at the HK Phil’s three 50th anniversary shows, shining in her 75-minute sets. She was joined by singer-songwriter Anthony Lun and Cantopop legends Frances Yip and Elisa Chan.
A bomb exploded during the screening of a police satire in the Hoover Theatre in Causeway Bay in 1974, injuring 11 and sending 400 audience members stampeding for the exits.
In Netflix’s Atlas, Jennifer Lopez’s heroine must embrace AI to save humans from Simu Liu’s rogue android. The film offers few surprises and its wholehearted embrace of technology is off-putting.
Jan Lamb of Cantopop duo Softhard is nothing if not versatile. The Hong Kong entertainer has been an actor, graphic designer, rapper, stand-up comedian, popular radio host, dramatist, and film director.
Buying London is a new reality show that sees a real estate team selling multimillion-pound mansions as they quarrel and quibble on air – just as they do in LA on another Netflix show, Selling Sunset.
Vietnamese director Minh Quy Truong’s third feature Viet and Nam, featuring at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is a valiant, opaque expression of Vietnam’s collective trauma centred on two gay miners.
A rising global music star, DJ Peggy Gou is about to release her first album as a singer. She talks overcoming racism, sexism and jealousy to rise to the top, and pride in her Korean identity.
Disney+ K-drama, a prequel to the popular Chief Inspector series of the 1970s and 80s, stars Lee Je-hoon as Detective Park Yeong-han and Seo Eun-soo as his sweetheart Lee Hye-ju.
Aaron Kwok plays a father who works in a factory and moonlights as a rock star, and is killed in a traffic accident. After 24 years, he comes back as a dog in this awful comedy with no redeeming features.
Veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks about Caught by the Tides, his 2024 Cannes Film Festival entry, which captures the changes he witnessed in the 20-something years in which it was shot.
When he first watched Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 silent classic The Kid, WKM Gallery owner William Kayne Mukai enjoyed the comedy. He still watches it now and again and believes it opened him up to art.
Rough-edged detective Do-cheol (Hwang Jung-min) returns in I, The Executioner, in which he and his team, including Jung Hae-in’s new recruit, must protect a paroled thug from a vigilante justice warrior.
Christopher Sun’s film has the trappings of a social realist drama, but in fact is a well constructed mystery. Not without its flaws, it is a welcome addition to the Hong Kong film canon.
Junji Sakamoto’s simple tale of the courtship between a manure salesman and the daughter of a disgraced samurai is a charming watch.
The live version of Hayao Miyazaki’s hit anime Spirited Away has found new fans in London’s West End – the three-hour play is filling the London Coliseum and its run has been extended by five weeks.
Hong Kong director Roger Garcia talks about promoting Asian cinema, why ‘rejection is about 90 per cent of the job in filmmaking’, and how he is helping the next generation of filmmakers find their feet.
K-pop fans have a lot to be excited about in the coming weeks as RM from BTS, New Jeans and Aespa drop new albums, and Treasure release a new single. Which group will dominate the K-pop charts?
Preserving acetate film, on which Hollywood has shot movies since the 1950s, is not easy but is key to ensuring the survival of some of the best movies made. Experts talk about the work they do.