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The A.V. Club FilmUSAOnslaught is a natural sequel to The Guest, as far as the military-industrial complex goes Adam Wingard's kinda-follow-up to The Guest, Onslaught depicts an arms race run rampant, expanding from his contained thriller.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAEd Sheeran stands proudly behind his purchase of the Batman & Robin nipple costumes The "Thinking Out Loud" singer says he also owns Hook 's Peter Pan costume and Rufio's sword, among other treasures.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAAdria Arjona sure is excited to be playing “the woman” in Man Of Tomorrow A new video of the actor's grueling training process has intensified speculation that she might be playing a certain Amazon warrior in the DC Studios sequel.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSABy Any Means beats on Klansmen but can’t beat its own tired thriller script A terrible Mark Wahlberg steals Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s spotlight in the uneven buddy-cop period piece By Any Means.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAMaggie Gyllenhaal tinkered with AI on her new Marilyn Monroe short film The actor/director decided the "human" performance she'd received was sufficient without it.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAGeorge Clooney doesn’t trust the government to regulate AI "It’s not just that you’ll see lies. It also makes you question things that really do exist," the actor says.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAAnimator Nick Park drops bombshell that Gromit was almost a cat The Wallace & Gromit stop-motion icon admits that cats are just too hard.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSALessons in time: Historical epics that get history (mostly) right There's no such thing as a perfectly historically accurate movie. But these try to get more right than wrong.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAWell, somebody flew a plane banner saying “Ellison is Trump’s B!tch!” over Paramount What the anti-Paramount message lacked in political nuance, it made up in "being up in the sky where everybody could see it."

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAThe Odyssey to just go on conquering IMAX screens for another month Turns out you don't kick the world's best-performing IMAX movie ever out of your big, loud theaters just because the lease is up.

Festivals

映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

On view

On screens this week the newest stills from the region's press

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About

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。