South China Morning Post - Film & TV

After a busy spring, June welcomes a relatively thin crop of new Korean dramas as current shows continue filling the airwaves. Still, the month offers several exciting new titles, including a pair of classroom-based dramas from Netflix, the world’s largest streaming platform. 1. Doctor on the Edge Lead cast: Lee Jae-wook, Shin Ye-eun While most South Korean men enter the barra...

Theatre emphasises the principle of directorial intention, a specific creative vision and message that a performance aims to communicate. Hong Kong-born actress Kaja Chan applies this theory to her life. She has known she wanted to act for as long as she can remember, and has steered her career with unwavering focus. Chan, 25, was born to a Polish mother and Chinese father and g...

Lead cast: Shin Ha-kyun, Oh Jung-se, Heo Sung-tae Latest Nielsen rating: 3.6 per cent In the new hard-knuckled action-comedy Fifties Professionals, three men who formerly held prominent positions in their respective fields are forced into hiding. For 10 years, they work menial jobs and reluctantly pretend they cannot stand up for themselves, all the while not realising that they...

This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries. Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge turns 25 this month and remains as divisive as when it first came out. The film is so gleefully over the top that you wonder why the title’s official stylisation – Moulin Rouge! – is limited to jus...

Rickshaw rider Sly comes in for some tough questioning By Alison Wiseman This article was first published on May 30, 1994 Tough-guy Sylvester Stallone came in for some even tougher questioning as he drew up to the Planet Hollywood launch party in a maiden drawn rickshaw last night (May 29, 1994). But when compere Paul Fonoroff asked him if his entrance was politically correct h...