South China Morning Post - Film & TV

This is the 78th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. At a press conference on April 20 at Hong Kong’s MacPherson Stadium, the warm, easy banter onstage between veteran Hong Kong actors Michelle Yim Wai-ling and Ricky Lau Wai-man was the kind that can only be produced by decades of shared history. Yim ­– better known by...

Lead cast: Lee Jae-wook, Shin Ye-eun Latest Nielsen rating: 5 per cent After his cameo as a dreamy doctor in the fantasy romcom Boyfriend on Demand earlier this year, Lee Jae-wook is back on screens slinging a stethoscope as the lead of the rural medical drama Doctor on the Edge, based on the webtoon Endurance Doctor by Kim Tae-poong. Starring alongside him as a chipper local nu...

Liminal spaces are blowing up. Backrooms, indie film company A24’s latest horror release, has been setting all kinds of records this week. Its US$118 million at the worldwide box office on its opening weekend saw it become A24’s biggest hit ever, while director Kane Parsons became the youngest-ever filmmaker to have a film hit number one at the US box office, at just 20 years ol...

3.5/5 stars Beloved 1980s action hero He-Man returns to the big screen in his first live-action feature in almost four decades. Helmed by Bumblebee director Travis Knight, Masters of the Universe is a gloriously camp sword-and-planet adventure that feels less concerned with bringing in new fans than revelling in unbridled nostalgia. Nicholas Galitzine provides the glistening tor...

Lead cast: Lee Jun-young, Son Hyun-joo, Lee Joo-myoung, Jeon Hye-jin, Jin Goo Latest Nielsen rating: 5.16 per cent An ageing corporate mogul and an up-and-coming football star trade places in the body-swap drama Reborn Rookie. If the name and concept sound vaguely familiar, that is because the show is based on a web novel by San Kyung, who also penned the story of the smash-hit ...