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 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:30:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBkjOyQ2NifppVjH6qdYdAk In Korean drama series Bloodhounds, Woo Do-hwan and Lee Sang-yi play Kim Gun-woo and Wong Hoo-jin, amateur boxers who meet in the ring, then team up to fight a loan shark persecuting the former’s mother.]]> Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:15:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBkjOyQ2NifppVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAdmC-B6GetvJVjH6qdYdAk From Margot Robbie-led Barbie and Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan to sequels for Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible and Insidious, here are 14 of the best new Hollywood films of summer 2023.]]> Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:15:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAdmC-B6GetvJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDffUnGLwiIU-T5HJgy6HUf Transformers: Rise of the Beasts features the voice of Michelle Yeoh and a change in scenery from the usual cityscape alien robot battles – but do not expect this sequel to be any less tedious.]]> Wed, 07 Jun 2023 06:52:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDffUnGLwiIU-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBu1E1m8V1Kd-T5HJgy6HUf Ezra Miller puts in an erratic return performance as The Flash, who this time has a younger double. There is a welcome cameo from Michael Keaton as an ageing Batman, but this crossover film lacks emotion.]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:00:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBu1E1m8V1Kd-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAN0372SPckcKCY3L745TL_ Director King Hu’s influence on Chinese wuxia martial arts cinema is examined in the first of a two-part documentary that features interviews with filmmakers from John Woo to Ang Lee.]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:36:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAN0372SPckcKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCZVExKt25OtF1cWWor9YPv Lily-Rose Depp plays a troubled pop star in The Weeknd’s shallow celebrity satire The Idol, a tacky, tactless drama that wastes the casting of Jennie from K-pop group Blackpink.]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:45:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCZVExKt25OtF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSC4E_d2DKbMG-T5HJgy6HUf Starring Lee El, Amazon Prime Korean drama Battle for Happiness focuses on social media addiction among a group of mothers who endlessly hunt for likes.]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:15:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSC4E_d2DKbMG-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSB5IeVLMOvrUXn9ye8UNv30 Doctor Cha, Netflix’s hit K-drama about a 40-something doctor’s love and work life, may have rocketed to success in its first weeks, but narrative stagnation after a mid-series climax leaves it ultimately disappointing.]]> Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:15:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSB5IeVLMOvrUXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAjxkFGwtB54-zdsCmHakzH Netflix documentary Arnold follows Schwarzenegger’s story as a bodybuilder, movie star and US politician, with interviews with James Cameron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sylvester Stallone, and more.]]> Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:00:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSAjxkFGwtB54-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSD5odxVhe0Y4ylmFkX7M1Jw Former Variety critic Derek Elley explains why Tony Au Ting-ping was one of the great Hong Kong filmmakers of the 1980s and early ’90s. Considered a maker of romantic dramas, his work in fact spans the genres.]]> Sat, 03 Jun 2023 22:15:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSD5odxVhe0Y4ylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCYJuG8rE2pBHn9ye8UNv30 From Squid Game’s Lee Byung-hun to Train to Busan’s Gong Yoo to heartthrob Hyun Bin, the 10 greatest male K-drama actors of all time ranked.]]> Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSCYJuG8rE2pBHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDc902kSobguyejEQ2Mq9rY French-Japanese production Drops of God is a taut tale of wine world drama, while comedians just about escape dying – in both senses of the word – on camera in World’s Most Dangerous Roads.]]> Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:15:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDc902kSobguyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA2Xg5c5t-KUSlmFkX7M1Jw Bait 3D, an Australia-Singapore co-production, is a basic shark-attack film that flopped at the Australian box office but was a huge success in China, helped by its action, 3D shots and lack of politics.]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSA2Xg5c5t-KUSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSC3IxnMBW9hSMb1naedg1wr Kim Dong-wook and Chun Woo-hee star in K-drama Delightfully Deceitful, a stylish drama that mixes thrills with indulgent – sometimes unnecessary – psychobabble.]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:15:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSC3IxnMBW9hSMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDqCIn51YzFL-T5HJgy6HUf Spider-Man/Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) is back as the Brooklyn kid and superhero in this animated sequel that is even better than 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.]]> Wed, 31 May 2023 15:00:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDqCIn51YzFL-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSATOvnqoeI2kylmFkX7M1Jw Kim Dong-wook’s time-travelling TV reporter is on the trail of a serial killer in rural South Korea in My Perfect Stranger, and along for the ride is Jin Ki-joo’s publishing house editor, with past issues of her own.]]> Wed, 31 May 2023 12:15:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSATOvnqoeI2kylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDP-PW9JDFBvZVjH6qdYdAk Season three of Disney+ Korean medical drama Dr. Romantic sees top surgeon Master Kim (Han Suk-kyu) saving lives, both inside his new Trauma Centre and outside at various civil emergencies.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 22:15:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDP-PW9JDFBvZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBe00evNsjvD3n9ye8UNv30 Here is a preview of the top K-dramas debuting in June 2023, from Netflix’s Bloodhounds to Lies Hidden in My Garden starring Lim Ji-yeon of The Glory, and See You in My 19th Life with Shin Hye-sun.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 13:15:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSBe00evNsjvD3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDfBHJCBxLfw-T5HJgy6HUf Ma Dong-seok is back as ‘beast cop’ Ma seok-do in The Roundup: No Way Out, the third instalment of the Korean action-comedy franchise, this time taking on Japanese yakuza drug dealers.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 06:10:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSDfBHJCBxLfw-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSABf0RsfrvUkF1cWWor9YPv From Grand Jury prizewinner The Zone of Interest to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, here are 10 of the best movies from the Cannes Film Festival 2023.]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 22:15:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/h82NpkTBVSABf0RsfrvUkF1cWWor9YPv