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From Quentin Tarantino’s violent blockbusters to Steven Spielberg’s family entertainment, and from indie gems premiering at Sundance film festival to popular Hollywood franchises making waves at Comic-Con, this is the place to go for features, interviews and reviews about movies both classic and new from the United States.
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Morning mist hangs over the tea plantation at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, in the New Territories. Photo: Alexander Mak

Hong Kong’s 1,000-year-old tea heritage is being rediscovered and rehabilitated

Discover Hong Kong’s hidden tea legacy, predating British influence, as a band of young local growers races to safeguard ancient cultivation and traditions.

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The stuffed crab shell at Seventh Son is dipped in egg and breadcrumbs twice before being fried. Photo: Alexander Mak

Masters of Hong Kong’s ‘kung fu’ cuisine on the struggle to save Cantonese classics

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Stephen Yan with fans in Toronto in 2024. Photo: courtesy Retrokid

Wok with Yan’s return: Hong Kong-Canadian TV chef Stephen Yan reunites with fans decades after disappearing

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“Longgang’s Weird Building”, a fortress-like structure located in Longgang, Shenzhen, China. Photo: Alexander Mak

One man’s fortress: an eccentric’s labour of love in Longgang

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Hong Kong actors (from left) Karan Cholia, Inderjeet Singh and Bipin Karma at Statue Square, Central. Photo: Alexander Mak

Hong Kong’s film scene: 3 South Asian actors rewrite the script

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A scroll depicts a Christian baptism in ancient China.

Reflections | What happened to China’s early Christians and their heretic doctrine?

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Tanya Reynolds at the world premiere of Ted Lasso Season 4 in Los Angeles in July. Photo: EPA
Get to Know

Meet Tanya Reynolds, who joins the Ted Lasso cast as Coach Alice

The British actress, who has a theatre background, landed her breakout role as a teenage writer of alien erotica in Netflix’s Sex Education.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Mark Ruffalo’s son Keen, who plays Connor in Sterling Point

Food and Drinks

On the Menu | What The Odyssey tells us about the age-old concept of hospitality

Fame and celebrity

Meet Mason Gooding, Cuba Gooding Jr’s son starring in I Want Your Sex

The Scream actor reunites with Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki’s new erotic comedy thriller.

Jerry Maguire actor Cuba Gooding Jr and his son Mason Gooding, who stars in I Want Your Sex. Photos: AFP, @masonthegooding/Instagram
Fame and celebrity

Meet Thad Luckinbill, who plays Zoe Saldaña’s old CIA friend in Lioness

The actor may be best known for his role on The Young and the Restless, but he has also produced films like the Oscar-winning La La Land.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Spider-Man star Jacob Batalon’s interior designer wife, Veronica Leahov

The actor, who plays Ned Leeds in the Marvel franchise, proposed to his Moldovan partner, founder of the home decor brand Veroh, last year.

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Asian cinema

10 must-see movies and programmes at Hong Kong’s Summer IFF 2026

This year’s Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival boasts 37 features, from regional premieres to 4K restorations of Hong Kong classics.

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Hwang Jung-min in a still from Hope, one of our picks of features to catch at the 2026 Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival in Hong Kong.
Christopher Nolan

Who are Christopher Nolan’s brothers, Jonathan and Matthew?

The Odyssey director’s younger brother, Jonathan, has frequently collaborated with him on films like Interstellar and The Prestige – but Matthew has a darker past.

Get to Know

Who is Destin Daniel Cretton, director of Spider-Man: Brand New Day?

Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon reprise their roles while Jon Bernthal and Sadie Sink join the cast – but what do we know about the film’s director?

Christopher Nolan

‘I wanted it to be very sensual’: Circe actress on THAT pig scene in The Odyssey

Samantha Morton talks about Christopher Nolan helping her when she was ‘a little scared’, playing Circe as an ageless character… and humming.

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English actress Samantha Morton attends the premiere of The Odyssey at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York on July 14, 2026. Photo: AFP
Obituaries

Sopranos actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters, dies at 80

Pastore, who played Salvatore ‘Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero on the show, also appeared in films including Goodfellas and Awakenings, both in 1990.

Vincent Pastore attends The Sopranos 25th anniversary celebration in New York in 2024. The actor died on Saturday at the age of 80. Photo: AP
Marvel

Why Spider-Man: Brand New Day was made to be a ‘superperson’ film

With Marvel trying to regain its pre-pandemic box office figures, the latest Spider-Man film concentrates more on human emotions than action.

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Sexual harassment and assault

Jared Leto denies sexual assault allegations in BBC documentary

Actor calls claims by four women ‘categorically false’ after report details alleged misconduct when they were teens.

Film reviews

Review | Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Tom Holland returns in mature Marvel triumph

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man fights both supervillains and his own superpowers in this exciting new outing co-starring Zendaya and Sadie Sink.

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Tom Holland as Spider-man in a still from Spider-Man: Brand New Day (category IIA), directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Zendaya and Sadie Sink co-star.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Why Daniel Wu is swapping ‘broken’ Hollywood for Hong Kong films

Wu discusses his coming films including Cold War 1995 and the Twilight of the Warriors sequel, and how Hollywood has ‘dropped diversity’.

Daniel Wu is pictured at the New York Asian Film Festival 2026. Wu is making his Hong Kong comeback as he loses optimism in a Hollywood system that feels as if it has “dropped diversity altogether”. Photo: Chris Kammerud
Artificial intelligence

8 Hollywood films where AI is front and centre, from Terminator to Wall-E

Christopher Nolan, James Cameron and others have long explored AI in films. Here are eight that strikingly foretell the tech’s consequences.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Heidi Grace Engerman, who plays the mysterious Sidney on Ransom Canyon

The University of Miami graduate appeared in Candyman and Chicago Fire before landing her role on the hit neo-Western show.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Josh Hamilton, Jennifer Garner’s late husband in Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend

The actor loves photography, and his Instagram is filled with portraits of A-listers such as Sydney Sweeney, Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Seyfried.

Josh Hamilton stars opposite Jennifer Garner in Peacock’s new TV series The Five-Star Weekend. Photos: Getty Images, AFP
Cinema

Planet of the Apes at 25: why Tim Burton’s sci-fi remake was a confusing mess

The 2001 film with Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth and Helena Bonham Carter featured a muddled script and awkward callbacks to the 1968 original.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Alice Halsey, who plays Laura on Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie

The 11-year-old made her debut in the 2023 miniseries Lessons in Chemistry and had a role in the long-running Days of Our Lives – and she loves Taylor Swift.

Tourism

Why San Diego Comic-Con 2026 will see Marvel, HBO, Apple TV and more return

Hollywood’s largest studios are back at San Diego Comic-Con after deliberately missing out on the convention in 2025.

Robert Downey Jnr takes part in the Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2024. Photo: Getty Images for Disney
Fame and celebrity

‘We hit the limits’: Christopher Nolan on going all out making The Odyssey

The director reveals the lengths to which the cast and crew went to make good on creating his epic version of ‘the ultimate adventure story’.

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Director Christopher Nolan (centre) and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema are pictured on the set of The Odyssey. Photo: Universal Pictures via AP
Fame and celebrity

Meet Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan’s wife and producer of The Odyssey

The power couple went from their US$6,000 first film in 1998 to Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Interstellar and Inception ... and received a knighthood and damehood from King Charles in 2024.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, July 17-19

Get a Pilates session in before a quick run, explore the Hong Kong Book Fair, dance it out on a rooftop terrace and more this weekend.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Ted Lasso star Cristo Fernández, a footballer on screen – and in real life

The Mexican actor was signed by El Paso Locomotive FC in May and made his long-awaited professional debut on the pitch last Saturday.

Cristo Fernández plays easygoing footballer in popular TV series Ted Lasso. Now the actor is stepping onto the field in real life. Photo: cristofernandez.mx/Instagram
Film reviews

Review | The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan adapts Homer for an anti-war masterpiece

Matt Damon anchors a visually stunning epic in which the women – Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya – outshine the men.

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Matt Damon (left) as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena in a still from The Odyssey. Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon.
Asian cinema

East meets West

In this feature series, we spotlight world cinema where East meets West, including notable China-US co-productions.

Fame and celebrity

Meet June Diane Raphael, Elle’s supportive mum in the Legally Blonde prequel

The actress is also the voice of Fawn, the sassy deer in Netflix’s animated comedy Mating Season.

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