Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, on Netflix, rounds off Zack Snyder’s instantly forgettable sci-fi series, with even less depth, humour and emotional complexity than the first movie.
Ryohei Suzuki stars as playboy detective Ryo Saeba in new Netflix movie City Hunter, the latest adaptation of the manga of the same name by artist Tsukasa Hojo.
If Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver holds little appeal to you, try these five related movies instead - they’re all amazing.
As two Hong Kong films premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, we look back at the city’s cinema history at the event, including Wong Kar-wai’s many hits and Johnnie To’s successes in the 2000s.
Christopher Nolan references and a love triangle don’t save Chinese drama Galaxy Writer, which follows two fledgling filmmakers navigating China’s commercialised movie industry.
Kim Sung-su’s political blockbuster faithfully recounts the 1979 coup d’état that plunged South Korea into its darkest period to date, in a film full of grandstanding machismo and intimidation.
Thrilling HBO Vietnam war drama, directed by The Handmaiden’s Park Chan-wook, stars Robert Downey Jnr as various characters and Hao Xuande as a Viet Cong spy working for the chief of the secret police.
Oldboy’s Choi Min-sik stars as a paranormal investigator who, with shaman Hwa-rim (played by Kim Go-eun) and others, performs a ritual cleansing on the grave of a property tycoon’s ancestor.
Michihito Fujii’s 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days simple tale of a young Taiwanese man exploring his first love’s homeland, Japan, proves surprisingly effective – despite its needlessly clumsy title.
From Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, to Kenji Sawada-led Yumeji and The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway, 10 of the best films made in Asia about artists and their art.
Where Japanese Godzilla films such as the recent Oscar winner Godzilla Minus One have gravitas, the makers of the latest American contribution steer willingly into a seemingly bottomless creative void.
Bill Nighy leads this football drama about a ragtag team taking part in the Homeless World Cup that is uplifting, but shies away from tackling the issues its characters face.
Independent filmmaker Hirobumi Watanabe stars as a version of himself in Your Lovely Smile, a Lim Kah-wai-directed film that celebrates venues with unique personalities and long, storied histories.
Overweight thirty-something Leying, played by Jia Ling, takes up boxing to turn her life around in Yolo, which Jia wrote and directs. However, the emotional punch of the Japanese original is largely missing.
Our pick of the 200 films being shown at the festival includes Korean mega hit Exhuma, 2024 Berlin best film winner Dahomey, and all the movies of The Banshees of Inisherin director Martin McDonagh.
Gyllenhaal plays a hard man protector for a Florida Keys community, where he is up against a shady gangster who enlists a psychotic heavy, played by former UFC fighter Conor McGregor, to stop him.
From Bruce Lee’s golden get-up in Game of Death to the nightmarish long hair and white nightdress worn by antagonist Sadako in Japanese horror Ring, we look at 10 iconic looks from Asian cinema.
Spring 2024 is all about safe bets from franchises – think new Kung Fu Panda, Godzilla and Planet of the Apes movies. There are original films too, such as If and supernatural horror mystery The Watchers.
Netflix drama 3 Body Problem, from the makers of the Game of Thrones series, is an adaptation of Chinese writer Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece, and depicts the fight against an alien invasion of Earth.
Netflix movie Damsel, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, is an action-packed fantasy in which Millie Bobby Brown – of Stranger Things and Enola Holmes – takes on a fire-breathing dragon.
The movie prequel to the popular Japanese anime series, The Birth of Kitaro: Mystery of GeGeGe is extremely violent and dark, but is a profound and rewarding watch for more mature viewers.
Netflix drama My Name is Loh Kiwan follows a North Korean defector – played by heartthrob Song Joong-ki – who is seeking asylum in Belgium fall in with a woman embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
This new adaptation of James Clavell’s novel Shogun on Disney+ sees Hiroyuki Sanada perfectly cast as a 17th-century lord, but it is Cosmo Jarvis as the flawed, sympathetic anti-hero who truly shines.
Avatar: The Last Airbender, an eight-episode adventure on Netflix, is a faithful adaptation of the original animated series that follows the legendary Avatar (Gordon Cormier) on a mission to save the world.
The best picture winner at the 2023 Golden Horse Awards, Stonewalling tells a stripped-down, non-judgemental tale of a young, pregnant Chinese woman who seems to have everything against her.
Jonathan Glazer’s historical drama The Zone of Interest is a profound, deeply unsettling masterpiece that highlights the horror of the Holocaust through the eyes of a camp commandant and his family.
From a bombastic Japanese thriller about a gang of ageing thieves to an uproarious John Woo action comedy starring Chow Yun-fat, here are five of our favourite Asian heist films.
A woman discovers she has died. As she searches for her son she begins a bizarre existence with a group of fellow lost souls yet to find peace, who parade through the streets seeking loved ones.
The Japanese remake of Taiwanese romantic fantasy My Missing Valentine attempts to address some of the original film’s deeply problematic issues in its story about consent – but fails.
Amazon Prime’s first locally produced Australian feature film, Five Blind Dates is a mishmash of genre stereotypes, and lacks the sparkle of humour and romance expected in a successful romcom.
