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All the latest news, reviews and interviews about your favourite television series, as well as shows and films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms.

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  • Kim Nam-joo’s Soo-hyun reconnects with the people she used to be close with after her release from prison, but her peace is disrupted by an anonymous letter
  • Wonderful World is not without its faults, but the pieces are falling into place for what will hopefully be a satisfying finish to this Disney+ K-drama
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Korean filmmakers often turn to Japanese movies, manga and fiction for inspiration. From Oldboy to Josée and Little Forest, we pick our top 10 Korean film adaptations of Japanese originals.

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Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and The Terror: Infamy producer Alexander Woo, talk about their Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past.

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Bill Nighy leads this football drama about a ragtag team taking part in the Homeless World Cup that is uplifting, but shies away from tackling the issues its characters face.

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This Disney+ series follows two police officers, Jin I-soo (played by Ahn Bo-hyun) and Lee Gang-hyun (Park Ji-hyun), who infiltrate a cult, and investigate a death at Jin’s corporate family compound.

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The right-wing commentator has slammed Israel’s military actions in Gaza, but her distasteful comments about Jewish people have led her to being labelled as antisemitic

From a Netflix documentary to co-owning Inter Miami FC, the British footballer has been keeping busy with wife Victoria Beckham and his kids, including 12-year-old Harper

Performers like Medli Dorothea Loo are rare in the mass media of Singapore, where activists say transgender people still face stigma, from job discrimination to family rejection.

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The Train to Busan director’s Korean drama series for Netflix Parasyte: The Grey offers a sober, yet at times wickedly funny, take on Hitoshi Iwaaki’s classic Japanese manga about an alien invasion.

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Kim Jae-wook, Lee Jun-young and Hong Su-zu struggle through Disney+ K-drama The Impossible Heir, a weakly scripted series that, two-thirds of the way through the show, is still a confusing mess.

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Jeon captivated the audience when she threw the first pitch at a Dodgers exhibition match ahead of the MLB season kick-off – even team members Freddie Freeman and Tyler Glasnow couldn’t look away

Kim Soo-hyun, currently on air in K-drama Queen of Tears, has been offered the lead role in a black comedy on Disney+, while several sequels have been announced – including one for 2016 hit Signal.

Nothing Uncovered, a K-drama based on the web novel Grabbed by the Collar, stars Kim Ha-neul and Yeon Woo-jin. It’s a classic thriller featuring corruption, illicit romance and murder.

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With roles in The Handmaid’s Tale and Ghostbusters, Grace has played younger versions of Brie Larson and Margot Robbie, and is dazzling Hollywood with her talent

So far Amazon Prime K-drama Wedding Impossible has handled the struggles of A-jeong (Jeon Jong-seo) and Ji-han (Moon Sang-min) deftly – but everything else feels less than satisfying.

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Actress Karena Lam talks to the Post about how making pottery became a creative outlet for her during Covid-19 and what it means to be a Hong Kong International Film Festival ambassador.

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Both siblings are USC dropouts who have had success with their media companies, Skydance and Annapurna, which were behind Grace and Frankie, the Coen brothers’ True Grit and, most recently, Nimona

Gyllenhaal plays a hard man protector for a Florida Keys community, where he is up against a shady gangster who enlists a psychotic heavy, played by former UFC fighter Conor McGregor, to stop him.

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Jamie Foxx’s talented daughter Corinne Foxx will return to hit Fox and Hulu show Beat Shazam this spring alongside her famous dad – here’s what you need to know about her

Save for a few scenes, Doctor Slump failed to discuss mental health and stigmas surrounding it in Korean society as it was supposed to – but the series was never less than a breezy watch.

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In this episode of Cultured, we explore the animation, manga, magazines, toy kits and novels established by Sunrise and Bandai, and how they have morphed into the Gundam world, widely considered the most successful robot anime on Earth.

American TV chef and inventor of the Semi-Homemade cooking concept Sandra Lee is engaged to youthful Algerian actor Ben Youcef – here’s what we know about him …

Actress Jennifer Lim talks to the Post about starring in the first horror series designed for phone viewing – before that became common – and combating stereotypes about Asians on stage and screen.

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Fans love Kim Ji-won for her award-winning turn in Descendants of the Sun and her iconic My Liberation Notes role, and for her cool and poise as an actress – traits on show in new K-drama Queen of Tears.

Dunn and Perry dated for just two years, from 2003 to 2005 – here’s what we know about their relationship, and what he wrote about her in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Bell’s fall from grace after finding early success as a child star on Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh is being put into context in new ID docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

Ryu Seung-ryong and Ahn Jae-hong star in surreal comedy K-drama Chicken Nugget as a duo who must set out to change Kim Yoo-jung back into a human from a chicken nugget. Yes, really.

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Friends alum Cox and her daughter Coco Riley Arquette are known for their adorable relationship, as seen on Instagram, but were recently spotted rowing at Heathrow Airport

Despite fierce competition from Disney, Apple, Warner Bros and others, Netflix appears to have won the streaming wars. Industry insiders explain how it defended its position at the top, and what’s next.