The Straits Times

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The Straits TimesSingaporeDavid McCloskey’s London Station pits American and British spy agencies against each other It is the fourth book in a loose series by the author being pitched as America's answer to John le Carre.

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The Straits TimesSingaporeActor Im Si-wan falls for a man, or so he thinks, in K-drama Love In Disguise The Squid Game star ventures into new territory with gender-bending spin on the romcom formula.

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The Straits TimesSingaporeHollywood’s fresh take on Big Tech titans who went from heroes to villains Films and documentaries are being released about Elizabeth Holmes, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman.

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The Straits TimesSingaporeRyan Coogler to reboot X-Files with Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler playing Mulder and Scully The Black Panther film-maker wrote, directed and produced a pilot for the new series on Disney+.

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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