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"Decision to Leave" is now streaming on Hulu, so you've got an easy decision to watch ahead of you. The 2022 South Korean film, directed by Park Chan-Wook, combines romance and mystery. Distributed stateside by Mubi, "Decision to Leave" racked up impressive streaming viewership over there. Its addition to the Hulu library will likely (and should) expand that viewership even more.

In "Decision to Leave," Busan detective Jang Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) is investigating the death of a rock climber, Ki Doo-soo (Yoo Seung-mok). The dead man's wife, Song Seo-rae (Tang Wei), has a motive; she's a Chinese immigrant and Doo-soo, an immigration officer, essentially blackmailed her into marriage. Seo-rae has scars from physical abuse too. But her husband died by tumbling down an enormous rock, so surely it must've been a suicide or an accident, right? Hae-jun keeps looking into Seo-rae,...

Co-organized with Japan Society and Japan Foundation, New York, Metrograph is pleased to commemorate this master of Japanese cinema’s golden age with Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a two-part 30-film retrospective—presented entirely on rare film prints imported from archives and collections in Japan—on the 120th anniversary of his birth. The series runs from May 9 – 31 at Japan Society, continuing at Metrograph from June 5 – June 29.

Metrograph’s program will begin with When a Woman Ascends the Stairs followed by a post-screening reception hosted by Japan Foundation, New York at the theater. Tickets for the series will go on sale Wednesday, April 30, with a limited number available for the opening night event.

Over a career spanning four decades from 1930 to 1967, Mikio Naruse bore witness to the making of modern Japan, before and after World War II, in films that primarily examine the cruel condition of women cast adrift in a society in constant,...

Netflix Dominates Baeksang Awards 2025 Night (Photo Credit – Wikipedia/Instagram)

Baeksang Arts Awards celebrated its 61st ceremonial event on May 5, 2025, at Coex in Seoul. It was established back in 1965, the Baeksang Arts Awards is considered as one of the most prestigious award ceremonies for South Korean film and television fraternity. This year’s event was hosted by Suzy, Park Bo-Gum, and Shin Dong-Yup.

Many popular actors and actresses were in attendance, including Song Hye-Kyo, Kim Tae-Ri, Kim Hye-Yoon, Byeon Woo-Seok, Hyunbin, Kim Go-Eun, and the list continues. Everyone looked quite charismatic in their attire. Everyone has been waiting to know who won which award, so we have noted down below the full winners’ list. Scroll ahead to find out.

The Grand Prize in the television category was won by Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars, whereas the Grand Prize in the film category went to the cinematographer of Harbin, Hong Kyung-Pyo. The...

The modern era of Hollywood only has a handful of true movie stars. The definition of the role has changed fundamentally over the years as the studio system morphed and shifted, and as a result, the amount of undeniably bankable stars the studios actually want to invest in has dwindled. But in the small handful that still remains, Florence Pugh shines as one of the brightest and best movie stars we have today.

She is absolutely fearless in front of the camera, and her taste in roles supports her obvious drive to find the most exciting and challenging ways to build her craft. Though her career has been, realistically, quite short so far, Pugh has already established herself as a risk-taker, and because of that, audiences are excited to show up when she makes the choice to lend her skills to a project. Honestly, she's rarely in something that doesn't deserve high praise.

Hollywood may dominate the global box office, but for true cinephiles, the real rite of passage begins with exploring non-English films, which are, by definition, international movies. Stories from countries/regions introduce us to different cultures and broaden our perspectives, offering a new way to see the world.

Movies like Slumdog Millionaire, from Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, are prime examples of people, culture, and struggles shown from a foreigner’s lens. For the real taste of the world, audiences have to dive into cinema beyond Hollywood. When Bong Joon-ho accepted the Academy Award for Best Director for Parasite, he famously said, “Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.”

From action and romance to slice-of-life genre, including animated ones, this list consists of some of the best non-English films that one must definitely watch before they die. Without further ado,...

After launching just two months ago with a splash from Berlin, upstart distributor 1-2 Special has made two key hires, both of whom are former industry veterans from Mubi.

Amanda Trokan and Nico Chapin have joined 1-2 Special to bolster the distributor’s presence ahead of Cannes. Trokan will serve as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions, and Chapin will be Vice President of Publicity.

Former Sideshow executive Jason Hellerstein founded the company and wants to acquire and release films from top-tier domestic and international festivals. The first feature it acquired and plans to release is Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25,” which made its premiere at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival and won the screenplay prize.

The team will have a strong presence in Cannes as they look to strategically expand the current slate.

Trokan led the North American programming team at Mubi, overseeing platform curation and licensing and negotiating a...

Fledgling New York-based distributor 1-2 Special has made two announcements heading into Cannes, appointing Amanda Trokan as SVP of acquisitions and Nico Chapin as VP of publicity.

Former Sideshow executive Jason Hellerstein launched the company in February to champion international and US festival films and recently pick up its first feature, Radu Jude’s Berlinale dark comedy Kontinental ’25. The team will be attending Cannes as they look to strategically expand the current slate.

With nearly two decades of experience, Trokan joins 1-2 Special after leading the North American programming team at Mubi. While overseeing platform curation and licensing, Trokan...

Mikio Naruse’s iconic films will now be celebrated in honor of what would have been the auteur’s 120th birthday.

IndieWire can reveal the trailer for the two-part program “Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us” that Japan Society and Metrograph will host. Titled as a reference to Naruse’s famous quote, the film series will screen rare imported 35mm prints of features from the Japanese director. The 30-film retrospective is co-organized with Japan Society, Japan Foundation, and Metrograph.

Metrograph in New York will screen “The Whole Family Works,” “Repast,” “Sound of the Mountain,” “Late Chrysanthemums,” “Flowing,” “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs,” and “Scattered Clouds.” Japan Society, meanwhile, will screen “Wife! Be Like a Rose!” “Hideko the Bus Conductress,” “Lightning,” “Floating Clouds,” “Untamed,” “A Wanderer’s Notebook,” and “Yearning.”

“Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us” starts May 9 at Japan Society, continuing through May 31. The series will then play at Metrograph June 5 to June 29.

Naruse,...

New York-based distribution company 1-2 Special has appointed Amanda Trokan as senior vice president of acquisitions and Nico Chapin as vice president of publicity.

The company was founded in February by former Sideshow executive Jason Hellerstein with the goal of acquiring and releasing films from top-tier domestic and international festivals. The company recently acquired its first feature, “Kontinental ‘25,” from director Radu Jude, out of the Berlin International Film Festival. The hires come as 1-2 Special is gearing up for Cannes.

Trokan joins 1-2 Special after leading the North American programming team at global streamer Mubi. While overseeing platform curation and licensing, Trokan negotiated deals for new films from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Quentin Dupieux, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alex Ross Perry, Rebecca Zlotowski, Albert Serra, Tyler Taormina, Martín Rejtman, Vera Drew, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Radu Jude and others.

Trokan joined Mubi as a decade-plus HBO veteran, spending eight years as an executive on the company’s film acquisitions team.

Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – among many other masterpiece movies – is set for “Nino” a high-profile documentary being directed by prominent editor, screenwriter and director Walter Fasano.

Fasano is known for his longtime creative collaboration with Luca Guadagnino mainly as an editor on films such as “I Am Love,” on which he served both as editor and co-writer; “A Bigger Splash”; “Call Me by Your Name”; and the doc “Bertolucci on Bertolucci” that Guadagnino and Fasano co-directed. Fasano more recently directed the doc “Pino” about Italian artist, sculptor, and set designer Pino Pascali.

Rota wrote the score for 16 films directed by Federico Fellini, including “La Strada,” “8 1/2,” “Juliet of the Spirits” and “Amarcord,” besides “La Dolce Vita.” He also composed music for Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the Sicilian-inspired theme for “The Godfather,” whose “Part II” score won him his only Oscar.

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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in May 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the 11 best movies coming to Shudder in May 2025.

Overlord (May 1)

Overlord is an alternate history action horror film directed by Julius Avery from a screenplay co-written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. The 2018 film is set in an alternate 1940s, towards the end of World War II, and it revolves around a group of American paratroopers on a mission to destroy a German radio tower. They soon find themselves in a...

There’s a discernible bookend quality to season 1 of Daredevil: Born Again, thanks to the creative reboot that happened over the course of production. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead directed the final two episodes of the season, as well as the premiere, giving an overarching arc that carried through smaller stories like the St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery or the hunt for the serial killer Muse (Hunter Doohan).

“The big things that we did were changing the tone a little bit, into something a bit darker,” Moorhead tells Gold Derby. “By the way, when I say ‘we,’ I mean the two of us, but also of course Marvel and Dario [Scardapane], our showrunner. We also made it more serialized, stretching arcs through every episode. And amusingly, everybody was missing ‘oner’ fights. So we got tasked with being able to bring a oner into the universe, which we would've fought to do anyways.

South Korea’s film community has called for the acquittal of documentary filmmaker Jung Yoon-suk, who is on trial after allegedly trespassing during a protest byrioters earlier this year.

Far-right demonstrators broke into the Seoul Western District Court on January 19 to protest the arrest of then-president Yoon Suk Yeol. Director Jung also entered the site to document what he viewed as a moment of democratic crisis.

However, he has been charged alongside the rioters with “special intrusion” — a form of unlawful entry — for entering the court building on the night of the riot.

A petition calling for his acquittal has gathered 2,781 signatures,...

Ghosts are ubiquitous and zombies have had their moments of dominance, but of all the classic horror monsters, vampires have the strongest claim for the greatest film legacy. The vampire genre is nearly as old as cinema itself, with F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” scaring up audiences in 1922, followed by the countless iterations that came in its shadow. Every era and every filmmaking country has since taken up its own spins on the myth of the vampire, from Universal Studios’ “Dracula” series beginning with Tod Browning’s Bram Stoker adaptation in 1931, all the way up to Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour’s indie feminist twist “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” in 2014.

2024 has not exactly been a banner time for brilliant takes on the horror genre’s most iconic creatures of the night, with the most notable bloodsucking project to come out this calendar year being the fun but ultra-silly “Abigail.

It’s hard to tell a story about Jesus Christ that actually follows The Bible and fits into a single movie without making it feel like a greatest hits compilation. Oh look, here’s the part where Jesus walks on water. I love that one! Remember the bit about throwing stones? That’s in here too! They’re playing all the hits!

Well, they’re playing most of the hits. “The King of Kings” is a new animated retelling of the life of Christ, filtered through Charles Dickens’ interpretation of the so-called “Greatest Story Ever Told.” It’s a CG-animated film aimed at children and it’s less than two hours long, so it speeds past most of the Christ story episodically, giving kids the gist of it without engaging with most of The Bible’s big ideas in depth.

It’s no surprise that “The King of Kings” doesn’t have time for everything,...

Nicole Kidman came to our attention in the 1990s, first in supporting roles with her then-husband Tom Cruise and then as a striking, distinctive leading lady in some of the era’s most enduring cult classics. In the new millennium, the Academy Awards came calling to give some long-overdue recognition to her skillset (she won for “The Hours” in 2002). Anyone would forgive her for resting on her laurels thereafter as she approached middle age, but not Nicole.

A year later, she appeared in Lars von Trier’s avant-garde drama “Dogville,” and from there, has continued to make it a mission statement to work with some of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world – Jonathan Glazer, Park Chan-wook, Yorgos Lanthimos; at the height of her fame, she took a year out to work with Stanley Kubrick. That’s before we even mention her fruitful and admirably frequent collaborations with female directors,...

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Fresh vibes (and Tom Cruise): “We’re loyal to our auteurs,” Cannes head Thierry Frémaux said yesterday during the presser for this year’s official selection. The statement came as part of a curious defence of his decision to invite the Dardenne brothers in competition with their latest flick Young Mothers. The longtime fest head is clearly aware of Cannes’ reputation as one of the circuits most pale and stale events. That anxiety has perhaps fueled this year’s punchy and vibrant official selection. Alongside Cannes favorites like the Dardennes and Wes Anderson, there is an exciting crop of filmmakers in competition like Carla Simone with Romeria, Tarik Saleh with The Eagles of the Republic, and Ari Aster with Eddington.

The guessing game around which films could make the lineup for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13—24, came to an end this morning at a press conference in Paris by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch. If you tapped the latest works by Ari Aster (Eddington), Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind), Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague), Wes anderson (The Phoenician Scheme), and the Dardenne brothers (Young Mothers) to make the cut, then you were correct.

Neon, which is on a five-year winning streak of Palme d’Or winners, two of which went on to win best picture at the Oscars (Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Sean Baker’s Anora), will try to make it a sixth with, for now, either of the two films it already has in its stable: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Julie Ducournau’s Alpha.

Absent from the...

Updated, 8:11 a.m.: Spike Lee has shared on Instagram that his latest film, “Highest 2 Lowest,” will premiere out of competition in Cannes, though the film was not included in the festival’s Thursday lineup announcement. IndieWire understands the festival was waiting to confirm Denzel Washington’s attendance, and indeed the star will be at Cannes.

Earlier: Predicting the Cannes Film Festival lineup is always a tricky feat. Some films you’d expect to see on the Croisette — and we expected many that didn’t make the cut Thursday morning — either aren’t ready or decided to go the way of the fall festivals.

Or worse, Thierry Frémaux and his team just didn’t go for them. The festival programmers looked at a record 2,909 feature submissions this year, spreading out selections across the main competition, Un Certain Regard, and the non-competitive sections. More official selection films will be announced,...

The Russo Brothers have a very busy schedule ahead of them. Now that their latest film, The Electric State, has finally hit Netflix and promotion for the movie has ended, their next big undertaking is set to begin filming soon. As it turns out, the Russo Brothers couldn't stay away from Marvel Studios, as the creative duo have reunited with studio head and executive producer Kevin Feige for the conclusion to the Multiverse Saga— Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Robert Downey Jr. is leading the charge in their massive cast, as he was revealed to be playing Doctor Doom at San Diego Comic Con last year. This past week was the actor's birthday, and the Russos celebrated in a very interesting way.

The directors took to their Instagram account to share their birthday wishes for Downey, who turned 60 this year. To celebrate the occasion, the post featured some impressive...

Time distorts in unsettling ways in our exclusive new clip from Gazer, the dark neo-noir thriller in the vein of Memento centered around a potentially unreliable narrator.

Metrograph Pictures releases the film in theaters on Friday, April 4, 2025.

The neo-noir thriller follows “a young mother (co-writer Ariella Mastroianni) who, due to a unique condition that progressively affects her perception of time, is trying to save money for her daughter’s future before it’s too late. She takes a risky job from a mysterious woman with a dark past, which leads her to become entangled in a tense web of revenge, deceit, and murder.”

Marcia Debonis, Renee Gagner, Jack Alberts, and Tommy Kang also star.

Watch the clip below that introduces Mastroianni’s character, Frankie, as she weighs her options when faced with a dubious proposal for fast cash. Whether to take the risky job is the least of her problems; startling visions signal murder ahead.

"Tell me what delights you..." Shudder has revealed their official trailer for the wacky, grainy indie horror film titled Dead Mail, created by Midwest filmmakers Joe DeBoer & Kyle McConaghy. This first premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival a year ago (here's the festival teaser), and it also played at TIFF, FrightFest, Screamfest, Grimmfest, Night Visions, and the Splat!FilmFest last year. After a great fest run, it's ready for streaming on Shudder later in April. An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned dead letter investigator at a 1980’s midwestern post office. As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate. The film features Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman. Reviews from fests have been quite positive:...

When Fingersmith was published in 2002, it was lauded as a gripping historical thriller—rich in companionship, rebellion, and escape, yet firmly rooted in genre conventions. But when Park Chan-wook, a filmmaker renowned for making crime and mystery feel visceral, reimagined its Victorian-era tale within the charged backdrop of colonial-era Korea, The Handmaiden became something else entirely. More than just an adaptation, it’s a film that transcends comparison—a lush, intoxicating study of desire, power, and submission breaking past its limits.

Beyond its evocative exploration of colonialism’s grip on the human mind, The Handmaiden (Original title: Ah-ga-ssi) wields eroticism like few films dare—so sharp and unvarnished in its aestheticism that other artistic depictions of desire seem almost timid in comparison. But at its core, this is a smart, subversive tale of two women outgrowing the petty, calculated power plays of a patriarchal world. Through the lens of a...

The 2025 edition of Mubi Fest is almost here. IndieWire can announce the global dates of international experience Mubi Fest, starting with its return to Chicago April 26 to 27. This year, Mubi Fest expands to to 11 cities globally, concluding in Glasgow from November 28 to 30.

The U.S. branch will have a special screening of Alex Ross Perry’s “Pavements,” with Perry in-person for a Q&a. Amalia Ulman’s “Magic Farm” will also be among the previews at the Salt Shed and The Music Box Theatre. The full festival schedule will be announced soon.

Perry’s “Pavements” is a faux documentary about the real band of the same name. The film stars Joe Keery, Fred Hechinger, Nat Wolff, Jason Schwartzman, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Kathryn Gallagher. “Pavements” will be released by Utopia May 2.

“Magic Farm” also stars Wolff, along with Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex, Camila del Campo,...

In Hollywood there are roles that are forever assigned to the actor bringing them on the big screens. The same was true for actor Samuel L. Jackson, whose portrayal of Nick Fury in the MCU became one of the most iconic characters in modern cinema. But the actor’s take on the no-nonsense S.H.I.E.L.D. director was actually inspired by his long-time friend Bruce Willis.

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in Iron Man 2 (2010) | Credits: Marvel Studios

The duo have collaborated together in many movies, and in an interview, L. Jackson credited Willis for an advice that changed his approach to playing Fury. Let’s dive deeper to understand what that advice was and how it changed the actor’s career trajectory.

The Hollywood secret that Bruce Willis shared with Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson has been a part of a plethora of projects in Hollywood.

Exclusive: Lionsgate Television has optioned author and theater critic Alexis Soloski’s bestselling novel Here in the Dark for scripted series development.

Megan Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author, co-creator and showrunner of the hit series Dare Me, will serve as both EP and writer.

Two-time Fleishman Is in Trouble Emmy nominee Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins as EP, reteaming with that FX series producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly.

Here in the Dark, published by Flatiron Books, is a dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance.

Abbott herself is a New York Times bestselling author of tension-filled narratives, i.e. Beware the Woman, The Turnout, Give Me Your Hand and several other major titles. Her next novel, El Dorado Drive, will be released by Penguin Random House in June.

She co-created, executive...

Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away. For every film, there is a season - and those can creep up on you pretty quickly when it comes to streaming services.

Netflix is constantly adding new content to its servers, as you know. As I'm currently shelling out $38.55 every month, I feel that Netflix could afford to add a few thousand terabytes of storage just from my payment.

Yet here we are, losing great content just as fast as we get the new stuff. Listen, if it means getting a new Knives Out flick, I'll gladly give up The Ridiculous 6. But no, that abomination will likely be the last thing ever streamed by the robots and the lizard people when our sun becomes a red giant and utterly consumes the planet. But the good stuff, that's the stuff we lose. The clock is ticking on three of the best movies that may...

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light was named best film at 18th Asian Film Awards on Sunday evening (March 16).

The Indian filmmaker attended the ceremony in Hong Kong and accepted the award from filmmaker, martial arts star and Afa jury president Sammo Hung.

Scroll down for full list of winners

It marked nearly 10 months since Kapadia became the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix at Cannes, where the film was the first Indian feature to play in Competition at the festival for 30 years.

“I’m so happy that we could end our journey here in Hong Kong,...

A household name after starring in Korean epics like Taegukgi: Brotherhood of War and Friend, Jang Dong-gun has been part of the explosive growth of the Korean film industry and has worked with a lengthy, star-studded list of talent over the last three decades.

However, Jang tells Deadline that there are still many actors and directors that he has not had a chance to work with yet, although he hopes to collaborate with them in the near future. This list includes fellow actors and friends Hwang Jung-min and Lee Byung-hun, as well as directors like Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook and Kim Jee-woon.

Jang says that he is also on the search for an “ordinary” role, after playing a wide range of characters with extraordinary and extreme backgrounds.

“Over my past works, I have done a lot of roles that are not common, that you can’t see in real life usually,...

Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) is attached to star as George Smiley in Legacy Of Spies, a TV series project based on John le Carré’s series of novels featuring the career intelligence officer character.

The Ink Factory, which owns the rights to le Carré’s work, is producing and Fifth Season is distributing the drama, which has been shopped on both sides of the Atlantic, drawing interest from potential buyers, sources said.

The pitch comes with multiple scripts written by Ink Factory co-founder Stephen Cornwell and Clarissa Ingram. Silo creator Graham Yost is executive producing the potential series, based on le Carré’s series of novels featuring the character George Smiley, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honorable Schoolboy and several others, as well as some unpublished materials.

Macfadyen follows a long line of actors who have previously portrayed the character on-screen...

Widely considered to be not only one of the best crime and gangster movies of all time but one of the greatest pieces of American cinema ever made, Francis Ford Coppolla's adaptation of The Godfatherremains one of the most revered movies in the history of the medium. Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winning three, including one for Best Picture, the film tops many fans' lists as the best movie of all time.

With such a perfect movie in the crime and gangster film subgenre, it is hard for even the best contenders in the same category to measure up. But some gangster films are so good that they come close to being as good as The Godfather, reminding audiences why the tragic stories of organized crime and its affects on the world around it can be one of the most compelling subjects for a movie.

Killers of the Flower Moon...

Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, known for his critically acclaimed performances in films such as Perfect Days and Shall We Dance?, is to receive the lifetime achievement honour at the 18th Asian Film Awards.

The veteran performer will accept the award at the ceremony in Hong Kong on March 16. As part of a schedule of events associated with the awards, he will attend a screening of Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days on March 15. Yakusho’s role in the film, as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo, won him the best actor award at Cannes in 2023 and the same honour at last year...

Asian science fiction has been dominated for many years by Japanese animation, which has provided countless masterpieces to the genre. But in the past 25 years or so, a new batch of live-action films have given the genre new momentum by providing more diversity in terms of format, national origins and thematic scope. While Japan is still making great science fiction that feels fresh and innovative, other countries, most notably South Korea and China, have begun taking the genre more seriously than in the past. Leading filmmakers now use sci-fi to tell great extrapolative stories about science and technology, the future(s) of human society, or more allegorically to deal with mental illness or the precariousness of the adult world.

Science fiction is a notoriously difficult genre to define, but the list below takes a look at films that try to break free of the traditional Japanese formats and subgenres – beyond...

Spoilers for "Daredevil: Born Again" follow.

The premiere of "Daredevil: Born Again" wastes no time at all, kicking off with an action scene that's out to remind you of the original "Daredevil" series.

Here's the set-up: Bullseye has attacked Josie's Bar and critically wounded Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson). Matt/Daredevil (Charlie Cox) arrives and attacks Bullseye, fighting him into the bar. Daredevil has strength and rage on his side, so Bullseye is left running. The one-take begins in the interior of Josie's, then follows Bullseye as he makes it up the building's stairwell, Daredevil close behind, before the fight concludes on the roof.

These extended one-take action scenes were a hallmark of the Netflix "Daredevil," which did a new one in each season while trying to one-up the previous scene. The first was in the second ever "Daredevil" episode, "Cut Man" (directed by Phil Abraham). Taking place in an apartment building hallway,...

The Asian Film Awards has unveiled Korean veteran actor Jang Dong-gun and Chinese actress Tang Wei as this year’s recipients of the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award, which will be presented during the awards ceremony in Hong Kong on March 16.

With more than 30 years in the film and television industry, Jang has starred in top Korean films like Friend, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, No Tears for the Dead and A Normal Family, among others. He has also acted alongside Hong Kong talent like Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse in Chen Kaige’s pan-Asian production The Promise and reunited with Cheung in Dangerous Liaisons.

Tang played leading roles in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave and Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. She also co-starred with Chris Hemsworth in Michael Mann’s Blackhat and worked on numerous Hong Kong productions and co-productions like The Golden Era, Office...

Set your notifications. Cancel Wednesday night trivia. If you’re old like me, actually get out your red pen and mark your calendar. Seven movies are leaving Netflix this month, and you’ll want to be sure to watch them before they say farewell.

One of them is an Oscar-winning Best Picture. Another, in the eyes of many, should have been. One is a sheer guilty pleasure.

There’s cutting-edge satire, vitally important social commentary, and quite possibly the best film ever made in its particular sub-genre.

Seven movies to stream on Netflix before they leave in March

I will caution you about one thing: with a minor exception or two, these movies tend toward the violent, from the outright physical to the intensely emotional. There are some comic moments to be found and perhaps a tiny bit of offbeat romance, but these are generally high-octane, in-your-face adventures. However – and...

Korean screen icon Jang Dong-gun and acclaimed Chinese actor Tang Wei will be honored with the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award at the upcoming 18th Asian Film Awards.

Jang, a leading figure in the Korean Wave (“Hallyu”) with a career spanning three decades, said: “It is a tremendous honor to receive this award, and I sincerely thank the Asian Film Awards for this recognition. Having my three-decade acting career acknowledged is deeply meaningful and inspires me to keep going.”

The actor, who debuted in 1992 with “Son and Daughter” before skyrocketing to fame with “The Last Match,” reflected on Hong Kong cinema’s influence on his development. “I can’t talk about my growth without mentioning Hong Kong films. The first movie I ever watched in a theatre was Jackie Chan’s ‘Drunken Master,'” Jang said, calling the 1980s “a golden age that still resonates with me today.”

His filmography...

Few TV series come with such a prestigious pedigree as “The Sympathizer“. Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel; co-produced by HBO and top-of-the-line independent film studio A24; co-created, co-produced, co-written and co-directed by Park Chan-wook; also helmed by top Brazilian film director Fernando Meirelles; and co-starring Hollywood mega-star Robert Downey Jr. in no less than five (!) different roles. In fact the miracle is that the show, a miniseries in seven episodes, is never weighed down by the sheer expectations sustaining it. On the contrary, it manages to offer a thrilling, fun and heartbreaking roller-coaster ride into the story of its refugee characters.

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As prestigious as it is, “The Sympathizer” is also a highly unlikely production. After all, none of the main filmmakers or producers involved hails from Vietnam or from the Vietnamese-American community at the heart of the show,...

The rise and triumph of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is one of the best success stories in modern cinema. Hailing from a country that had little to no film industry, Bong Joon-ho crafted some of the most compelling and internationally accessible films from South Korea as well as ventures in Hollywood blockbusters, all of which have similarities in themes and style that conjoin them all into one of the most unique cinematic voices today. In anticipation for the director’s upcoming film ‘Mickey 17’ (2025), let’s take a look into the awarding journey of Bong Joon-ho. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment,...

It’s always wholesome to see legendary filmmakers step forward to compliment the work of another artist. Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 also happened to receive high praise, but it wasn’t for the director himself.

Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17 | Warner Bros.

Park Chan-wook, the visionary filmmaker behind Oldboy and Decision To Leave, was so enamored by one aspect of the movie that he called for an Oscar. So, what exactly made the film so special for Chan-wook? Let’s dive in!

Park Chan-wook wants Robert Pattinson to win an Oscar for Mickey 17 Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17 | Warner Bros.

When Park Chan-wook speaks, the film world listens. After all, he’s the creative mind behind some great movies and is also known to make bold statements. But his endorsement of Mickey 17 has taken things to a whole new level.

RelatedOne ‘Mickey 17’ Character’s Unpredictable Nature Was...

Working in the Korean film industry for more than 30 years, veteran actor Kwon Hae-hyo has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the scene and witnessed Korean cinema’s rise as a global cultural powerhouse.

Throughout those three decades, Kwon has also developed a formidable pairing with prolific filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, appearing in 12 of his films so far. Besides starring in Hong’s films, Kwon has acted in titles like Train to Busan sequel Peninsula, crime thriller Bogota: City of the Lost and legal drama Juror 8.

Arriving at the Berlinale for the world premiere of Hong’s latest film, What Does that Nature Say to You, Kwon tells Deadline that he is drawn to Hong’s distinct long-take, pensive style, which repeatedly offers a fresh and liberating challenge for him as an actor.

“With other films, you know from start to finish what it’s going to be, but with director Hong Sang-soo,...

One of the best modern action movies, and the movie that inspired Keanu Reeves’ acclaimed John Wick franchise, is due to leave Netflix soon. So, watch it while you can! Released in 2010, The Man from Nowhere hails from South Korea and follows a mysterious pawnshop owner who, when a child he grows close with is kidnapped, reveals himself to be an expert killer. While it may sound familiar, The Man from Nowhere is by far one of the best installments in the mysterious figure with a particular set of skills action subgenre.

Sadly, The Man from Nowhere is now due to leave Netflix later this week in Friday, February 20, so you don’t have long to bask in the bloody violence of this critically acclaimed quest for revenge. Written and directed by Lee Jeong-beom, the action thriller stars Won Bin, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Hee-won, Kim Sung-oh, and Kim Tae-hoon, and...

Valentine’s Day might be about flowers, chocolates, and romance – but in horror, love often leads to obsession, betrayal, and bloody revenge. With slasher thrills, supernatural hauntings, or twisted tales of doomed romance, horror movies set around love and relationships add an extra layer of intensity. Interestingly, horror movies that use romance as a device go right back to the origins of horror cinema, intertwining desire with thrills and kills.

For those who prefer their Valentine’s Day with a side of terror, we’ve rounded up the best horror films to watch on February 14th. These movies prove that sometimes, love doesn’t just break your heart – it rips it out.

The Best Valentine’s Day Horror Movies 1. My Bloody Valentine (1981 & 2009)

Few films embody Valentine’s Day horror better than My Bloody Valentine. This cult classic slasher follows a mining town plagued by a masked killer seeking revenge on Valentine’s Day.

Exclusive: Production designer Donald Graham Burt has signed with Gersh for representation.

Burt is a two-time Academy Award and BAFTA winner for his work on Mank and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a pair of acclaimed films from David Fincher. The former drama, starring Gary Oldman, which also brought Burt the award for Best Production Design at the Critics Choice Awards, focused on screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his turbulent journey in writing the screenplay for the iconic 1941 film Citizen Kane. The latter stars Brad Pitt as a man born with the physical appearance and ailments of an elderly person, who ages in reverse.

These projects mark just two of Burt’s collaboration with Fincher. Over the years, he’s also worked with the director on titles including Zodiac, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Killer, as well as Netflix’s House of Cards.

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Son Ye Jin Aiming for Mask Girl Director’s Next Project (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Son Ye Jin, globally recognized for her role in Crash Landing on You, is now gearing up for her next big project. As per the latest update, she has been offered an exciting lead role in a new thriller drama that will be helmed by the director of Mask Girl. Jo Yu Ri, best known for her Squid Game 2 role is reportedly in talks for this drama as well.

According to Korean media outlet Xports News, Son Ye Jin has received an offer to star in Variety (literal title). The drama’s production company Cj Enm confirmed, “We did offer the role to Son Ye Jin, but as the project is still in its early stages, nothing has been finalized yet.” The production added that details about the broadcasting plans and casting are yet to be determined.

South Korea has a strong presence in the international landscape of entertainment, especially in music and cinema. The horror genre has been explored in South Korea since the early days of the country's cinema and evolved significantly throughout the decades, becoming a synonym of innovation and expertise in the genre. K-cinema is particularly associated with some of the best supernatural horror and zombie horror movies, yet Korean horror cinema has something for every taste.

Known for blending cultural themes into horror, the genre has been through different phases. Early Korean horror movies were often cautionary tales that reflected tendencies and fears within Korean society, perfectly exemplified by the 1960 psychological horror movie The Housemaid. Around the late 1990s and early 2000s, the genre experienced a renewal in South Korea. This shift propelled the making of more high-octane action horror, like 2006's The Host, and other subgenres that are still popular in Korean cinema today.

When it comes to romance, vampires take “forever” very seriously. And so do we. Maybe it’s the immortality, the brooding, or the way they make neck-biting look way more seductive than it should. Whatever the reason, vampire horror romances have been making audiences swoon for decades, blending love with death, passion with peril, and desire with destruction.

If you’re looking for a love story that comes with fangs, forbidden attraction, and a healthy dose of doomed obsession, these 10 vampire horror romances will sink their teeth into you.

Universal 10. Dracula (1931)

Before vampires were sexy, brooding antiheroes, Dracula set the gold standard for supernatural seduction. With hypnotic stares, impeccable fashion, and an unsettlingly smooth accent, Dracula (Bela Lugosi) effortlessly lures Mina (Helen Chandler) into his undead embrace, despite her engagement to another man.

This Universal classic is a must-watch for gothic horror fans. While it may not have the blood-drenched theatrics of modern adaptations,...

One of the year’s biggest televised events is already here: it’s Super Bowl time!

This weekend, Tubi will stream the Super Bowl, live and in 4K, for free. No cable login or credit card is required. Of course, Tubi’s expansive catalog filled with deep cuts means that there’s a lot more to explore beyond the big game. Any excuse to watch more horror is a valid one!

Whether you’re looking to explore the streaming platform beyond the Super Bowl or simply seeking hidden horror gems you may have missed, we’re here to help.

These ten hidden horror gems include everything from rare anthologies to schlocky ’80s fun to underrated cult classics and beyond. Don’t miss these 10 hidden horror gems on Tubi now.

Campfire Tales

This rare ’90s horror anthology feature was initially slated for theatrical release before getting sent straight to VHS in...

Gazer, the dark neo-noir thriller in the vein of Memento, has shifted into a new release date. With it comes a moody new poster.

Metrograph Pictures will now release the film in theaters on April 4, 2025. The film was initially set for February 21, 2025.

Gazer is directed by Ryan J. Sloan.

The neo-noir thriller follows “a young mother (co-writer Ariella Mastroianni) who, due to a unique condition that progressively affects her perception of time, is trying to save money for her daughter’s future before it’s too late. She takes a risky job from a mysterious woman with a dark past, which leads her to become entangled in a tense web of revenge, deceit, and murder.”

Ariella Mastroianni, Marcia Debonis, Renee Gagner, Jack Alberts, and Tommy Kang star.

Daniel Kurland wrote in his review for Bd, “In fact, the film feels like a very post-modern deconstruction of many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films,...

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game Season 2.

What started as a small but enigmatic role for veteran actor Lee Byung-hun in the first season of Squid Game as Front Man/In-ho has bloomed into a pivotal and much larger part in the sequel.

Removing the mask of his Front Man persona, Lee’s character soon enters the ruthless, winner-takes-all games as Player 001, allying himself alongside former game-winner Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae).

“After it was decided that I would be in Season 2, Director Hwang [Dong-hyuk] paid a visit to where I was filming a different project,” Lee tells Deadline. “I asked him, ‘Do you have any idea how Season 2 is going to go?’ At that time, Director Hwang didn’t have a concrete idea. I had a vague idea that it would probably be about In-ho’s past, but when I read the completed script later, I was quite shocked...