Movies

The Assassin(s) director honoured to open SGIFF despite calls to drop controversial film

South Korean film-maker Hur Jin-ho, director of The Assassin(s), pictured during opening night of Singapore International Film Festival held at the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands on Oct 21.

‘Perfect weekend with The Weeknd’: Actor Tony Leung meets Canadian pop star in Hong Kong

(From left) Actress Carina Lau and her husband Tony Leung had dinner with The Weeknd in Hong Kong over the weekend.

Vicki Zhao on stepping back from acting and going behind the camera: ‘You don’t have to diet’

Vicki Zhao at the Kimrobinson hair salon at Takashimaya Shopping Centre on Oct 20.

Fjord director Cristian Mungiu won’t tell you what to think – some viewers can’t forgive him for that

(Foreground, from left) Renate Reinsve (left) and Sebastian Stan in Fjord.

Alejandro Inarritu made the year’s most divisive climate change movie Digger, and that’s the point

Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (left) with actors Tom Cruise (seated centre in grey suit) and John Goodman (with red tie) on the set of Digger.

Netflix hunts for its next big hit after US$135b stock market wipe-out

Netflix is among the top 10 worst performers in the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index.

Actor Austin Abrams, terrorised in Resident Evil and Whalefall, is pretty chill off-screen

US actor Austin Abrams attends the world premiere of Whalefall in Los Angeles on Oct 13.

Can WWE still mint Hollywood stars? The Street Fighter movie is the test

Cody Rhodes in Street Fighter, and Roman Reigns’ character poster in Street Fighter.

Sporting Life

Tenzing: A fond, overdue film in praise of an Everest legend

Tenzing, the movie, movingly captures the life of Tenzing Norgay and the first ascent of Mount Everest.

Hollywood’s fresh take on Big Tech titans who went from heroes to villains

Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning.

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