South China Morning Post - Film & TV

3.5/5 stars Chinese animation is riding an unprecedented wave of success, exemplified by the record-shattering run of Ne Zha 2 last year, but also represented by the likes of Chang’an (2023) and Nobody (2025). These films reinterpret classical tales and ancient mythology for modern audiences using state-of-the-art computer animation. Mu Zhengyang’s All Wishes Come True! enthusia...

Lead cast: Ahn Bo-hyun, Jung Eun-chae Latest Nielsen rating: 5.8 per cent Ahn Bo-hyun returns as cocky corporate heir turned police detective Jin I-soo in the second season of Flex X Cop, two years after the hit first season of the jaunty SBS action-comedy, which was adapted from the 2014 Russian series Silver Spoon. This new set of episodes seeks to deliver the same cocktail of...

In every civilisation, certain stories capture the psyche so profoundly that they are retold across centuries. In the West, Homer’s Odyssey is the one. Countless adaptations have emerged over millennia, inspiring literary giants from Dante Alighieri to James Joyce. Christopher Nolan’s cinematic adaptation is merely the latest. While it reflects the British-American filmmaker’s p...

This is the 83rd instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. Long before he packed out the Hong Kong Coliseum for his 40th-anniversary Get Up concerts last October, Alex To Tak-wai was busy changing the fundamental rhythm of the city’s pop music. Emerging from the nightclub circuit in the mid-1980s with a kinetic, Michael Jack...

Lead cast: Jung Hae-in, Ha Young “If a person’s life had its own genre, what genre would your life be?” This is the question Our Sticky Love, Netflix’s latest glossy K-drama offering, asks as it opens with images of a bloodied woman lying on the ground while a man in a slick suit gazes down at her with forlorn eyes. The question is posed by Go Eun-sae, played by Ha Young (The Tr...