Free Malaysia Today — Leisure

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Free Malaysia Today — LeisureMalaysiaAnthony Ippolito channels ‘Rocky’ aura to portray young Stallone The 27-year-old effectively secured the coveted role before casting even began for the biographical drama, due in cinemas this month.

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Free Malaysia Today — LeisureMalaysia3 local films doing interesting things with Malaysian stories From Hungry Ghost traditions to disabled divers and deaf representation, these productions are finding fresh ways to tell local narratives.

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Free Malaysia Today — LeisureMalaysiaLocal films should be shown without cuts, says Teo The deputy communications minister defends a move to allow some films rated 18 and above to be screened without certain scenes being cut.

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo