South China Morning Post - Film & TV

Lead cast: Park Bo-young, Kim Sung-cheol, Kim Hee-won, Lee Kwang-soo Disney+’s latest Korean drama series is the crime show Gold Land, which takes the popular bag-of-money narrative trope and replaces it with a coffin full of gold bullion. Yet that is not the gold that the title of this series led by Park Bo-young refers to. Gold Land is a gleaming casino that rises up from a de...

This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries. When Pearl Harbor was released 25 years ago this month, it became a byword for a certain kind of ultra-crass, ultra-commercial Hollywood filmmaking. Critics sharpened their knives, the film stacked up six Golden Raspberry Awa...

Lead cast: Shin Hye-sun, Gong Myung Latest Nielsen rating: 6.32 per cent Shin Hye-sun (Mr. Queen) and Gong Myung (Way Back Love) team up in Filing for Love, a new workplace K-drama that examines the rivalries and misadventures of an internal audit department. In South Korea’s pressure-cooker society, it takes a lot to get ahead. While there is no one way to make it, there are a ...

Andrew Stanton has spent more than half his life with Toy Story. He was the lead writer on the first three movies in the franchise, a script saviour on the fourth, and now, co-writer and co-director of Toy Story 5. “It wasn’t the plan. But it wasn’t not the plan,” he says. Stanton has done more than think about Woody and Buzz for the past 34 years. At Pixar, he made A Bug’s Life...

Lead cast: Ahn Hyo-seop, Chae Won-bin Latest Nielsen rating: 3.3 per cent Business Proposal actor Ahn Hyo-seop is riding high following his voice performance in Netflix’s chart-busting animated phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters, but K-drama fans have been deprived of his on-screen presence for three years. That wait has finally come to an end with the rural romantic comedy Sold Out ...