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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaElizabeth Holmes finally finds a test she can pass: Theranos fraudster’s documentary tops US box office LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 — You Can See Everything , the documentary about jailed biotech fraudster Elizabeth Holmes that is generating major Oscars buzz, prevailed in a slow weekend at the Halloween box…

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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysia‘Heat’ director Michael Mann accidentally shoots self at Los Angeles gun range LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 — Michael Mann, the acclaimed director of crime classics “Heat” and “Collateral,” accidentally shot himself at a gun range in Los Angeles, resulting in minor injuries, a statement…

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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaAfter ‘White’ grossed RM2.5m, Malaysian filmmaker JeRR returns with ‘Lunar July’, inspired by the Chinese ghost month KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 — Following the success of his folk-horror film White (2025), which grossed more than RM2.5 million at the Malaysian box office, local filmmaker JeRR PS Rion has returned with…

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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaPickles, pals and a grisly secret ingredient: Malaysian indie ‘Curi Makan’ lands a Rotterdam world premiere KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 — Two broke friends, a failing pickle business and a very unusual secret ingredient — that is the recipe behind Curi Makan , a Malaysian indie film now heading to Rotterdam in the…

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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaJapanese auteur and Palme d’Or winner Koreeda found a manga in the pandemic — now it’s his latest film SINGAPORE, Nov 1 — As his films evolve, so does he. In his interviews over the years, Hirokazu Koreeda has extensively shared how loss and change has impacted the way he makes his films, and his…

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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaMalay Mail’s Top 10 picks: ‘Clayface’ earns positive debut but fails to dethrone India’s ‘Jailer 2’ at Malaysian box office KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 — Malaysia has finally welcomed DCU’s Clayface to the big screen, and audiences have already responded positively.

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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