Follow South China Morning Post - Film & TV, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp52 Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:36:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBp6o6wqahx2SejEQ2Mq9rY Jung Woo-sung plays a deaf artist visiting Korea’s Jeju Island, who keeps crossing paths with a struggling actress (Shin Hyun-been), until they are thrown together after a fire at a cafe.]]> Sat, 02 Dec 2023 13:15:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBp6o6wqahx2SejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSB4HFsQHbCQc5VjH6qdYdAk On the back of Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, sequel Across the Spider-Verse had to be more than just original. The creators talk about making the film ‘a family drama with the stakes turned up’.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:15:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSB4HFsQHbCQc5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA8QsM3RuuJHClmFkX7M1Jw Vigilante, Disney+’s K-drama with Nam Joo-hyuk as a murderous police recruit, adds characters along the way to thrilling effect, and ends in a showdown between embodiments of different sides of justice.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:45:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA8QsM3RuuJHClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCzooqDwCaZXJs0ohxaO6Yr 2001’s Rush Hour 2, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, was a major box office success. Chan hated the film – although not for its overt racism and sexism, which make it problematic today.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:15:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCzooqDwCaZXJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCCIgWfJcnfKps0ohxaO6Yr American fashion blogger Diane Pernet has run A Shaded View On Fashion Film for 15 years. The Chinese fashion film winner at this year’s festival is about immigrant women making garments in the West.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:15:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCCIgWfJcnfKps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSABLNEUUUnhPF1cWWor9YPv Japan’s favourite monster, Godzilla, is back. In a story set just after World War II, Godzilla fights off former kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima, now working on a minesweeper, before attacking Tokyo.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:45:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSABLNEUUUnhPF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCjse5rPhax1ylmFkX7M1Jw Upmarket crime makes a comeback in The Chelsea Detective season 2 on BBC First, while Seoul goes all Gotham in K-thriller Vigilante.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:45:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCjse5rPhax1ylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBiNeY8WCLi7uzdsCmHakzH This Netflix Korean drama follows the fortunes of a demon, played by Song Kang, and a young executive (Kim Yoo-jung) whose lives become entwined after a chance meeting in a restaurant.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:15:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBiNeY8WCLi7uzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSD6AI0gR4QSSeT5HJgy6HUf Believer 2 may be awful, but there are plenty of far superior Korean film sequels to see. We rank the 10 best, including The Roundup, Steel Flower and Memento Mori.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:15:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSD6AI0gR4QSSeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDvnL5V-TzepezdsCmHakzH After going viral on TikTok, American comic Matt Rife landed his own Netflix special. Now, amid a sold-out world tour, he opens up about success, social media and why he’s not worried about getting cancelled.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:15:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDvnL5V-TzepezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA5oznTXUoTTps0ohxaO6Yr The story of Strong Girl Nam-soon starts with a child separated from her mother, then reunited. After that the Netflix drama series goes downhill, its narrative incoherent and its characters unconvincing.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:17:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA5oznTXUoTTps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSD1dZcBdJBfyV1cWWor9YPv From Gyeongseong Creature and the second season of Sweet Home on Netflix to Soundtrack #2 on Disney+, here are 10 of the best new K-dramas to watch in December 2023.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSD1dZcBdJBfyV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCOZsnVXrnt8iejEQ2Mq9rY Zhang Mo directs Last Suspect, a legal thriller set in an unnamed Chinese-speaking hellhole in Southeast Asia, which sees a lawyer attempt to save her daughter by exonerating a convicted murderer.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:15:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCOZsnVXrnt8iejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAlpIRThFYemV1cWWor9YPv Featuring stand-out performances from Michelle Wai and Elaine Jin, Ready or Rot is a pleasant and touching romantic drama that is a vast improvement on its prequel, 2021’s Ready or Knot.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAlpIRThFYemV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA1UHQGpfjdRuzdsCmHakzH A father sets out to avenge his son’s death at the hands of a crime gang in a film with Woo’s trademark camera work, and stunts that will prompt gasps.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:13:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA1UHQGpfjdRuzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCmtO7_S4IvbpVjH6qdYdAk Lisa Lu is best known internationally for films like Crazy Rich Asians. In Hong Kong, she made an indelible mark as a general in The 14 Amazons. Before that, she had a prolific screen career in America.]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:15:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCmtO7_S4IvbpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDRidS2qbG8711cWWor9YPv Up-and-coming director earns nod at top film awards in Taiwan for his socially conscious drama about family trauma and student suicides.]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:57:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDRidS2qbG8711cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBzQgmuSlo80KCY3L745TL_ Lee Jong-suk may find himself opposite Go Min-si if he signs on to Korean drama I’m Against My Romance, while Ji Chang-wook is set for a role in crime series Bulk.]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:15:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBzQgmuSlo80KCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCGRIf2f14yyps0ohxaO6Yr Once called the Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong, actress Cherie Chung rose to fame during the 1980s and appeared in almost 50 films – before walking away from it all at the age of 31.]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCGRIf2f14yyps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCLBmWrlSu-UClmFkX7M1Jw Ann Hui’s Elegies, a documentary about Hong Kong’s contemporary poetry scene, focuses on interviews with Hong Kong poets Huang Canran and Liu Waitong – and obliquely touches on the city’s ‘situation’.]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:15:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCLBmWrlSu-UClmFkX7M1Jw