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Stephen McCarty
After 20-odd years spent peddling and polishing words in Hong Kong, Stephen McCarty now resides in Britain, from where he scribbles, daydreams and laments the state of the world.
With busy lives driven by electronic devices, many of us have lost the art of sleeping – but by mastering a few skills, it’s possible to learn to sleep well once again
Based on the 2017 bestseller by Min Jin Lee, Pachinko shines a light on Japan’s Zainichi community – and season 2’s just returned
Fashion plucks its latest hot picks from screens big and small: think Chanel and Dior’s Regency-era fever following the new season of Bridgerton
We take the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Inverness, gateway to a region of stunning landscapes and spectacular journeys, including one Harry Potter takes on the Hogwarts Express.
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He dabbled in stand-up while at school in Bath, but an engineering degree at Cambridge made him decide to turn his humour and heritage into a career in comedy
As his Sundance hit Three Seasons enjoys a 4k restoration, the Vietnamese-American director is next chronicling Kim Phuc, the screaming young girl seen in newspapers around the world
Did you know there’s a tennis court inside? Celebrating the Big Apple icon beloved by movie buffs and tourists
A veteran of Australian culinary reality television, Justine Schofield reveals the tricks of her peripatetic trade and how she resists being a Debbie Downer
‘I feel positive about machines taking over the menial tasks and making space for creativity,’ says the innovation director
British director and producer Tom St John Gray has come full circle: his latest docus take him back to his dad’s old stamping ground of Southeast Asia, where he is giving a voice to those long silenced
Set over one fictionalised night in 1807, The Pirate Queen tells the tale of Canton’s notorious Ching Shih – with A-lister Lucy Liu at the helm
Professor of film studies at King’s College, London, Choi has created a course that uses the films as a gateway to explore the societies that produced them
Munich’s gloriously camp Museum Lichtspiele, which has been playing The Rocky Horror Picture Show almost continually since 1977, is a celebration of German kink camaraderie
Come at just the right time and you may be able to enjoy its eclectic charms and even buy unique pottery or a painted souvenir of your brush with a place wilfully out of step with the rest of the world
A chance meeting saw Mary Stephen appointed to work ‘magic’ on a string of works by French New Wave auteur Éric Rohmer, as well as films by Ann Hui and Fan Lixin
Documentary maker S. Leo Chiang discusses his Oscar-nominated short film Island In Between, which looks at the trepidation, but also resigned indifference, with which Taiwanese view mainland China.
Hong Kong-born filmmaker Ruby Yang, who teaches journalism at the University of Hong Kong, talks about the chilling effect of her Academy Award in China and today’s self-absorbed young documentary makers.
He never wanted a museum retrospective. He had donated his personal archive to the Library of Congress. So how did curators and his family change his mind? And what will we see at Hong Kong’s M+ museum?
Actor Byron Mann, of Netflix show Wu Assassins, talks about how The Modelizer underlines what a melting pot of ethnicities and nationalities Hong Kong is, and reveals the genesis of its plot.
Eurasian filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki reveals how her outsider perspective on Japan informs her poignant, emotional documentaries, and how baseball’s Ichiro Suzuki inspired her.
One of eight emerging filmmakers awarded US$38,400 each at a Macau workshop, Ines Sothea is used to self-funding her short films. She talks about future plans and her novel debut, Rice.
Having wowed the film festival crowds with her debut feature, City of Wind, Portugal-based Mongolian director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir reveals why her next project will see her return to her homeland.
Hong Kong director Roger Garcia talks about promoting Asian cinema, why ‘rejection is about 90 per cent of the job in filmmaking’, and how he is helping the next generation of filmmakers find their feet.
Hong Kong film producer, screenwriter and award-winning lyricist Saville Chan tells Post Magazine why he hopes his future lies in the director’s chair.
Actor, director, playwright and musician Daniel York Loh talks about his latest play and how, despite a résumé that includes movie The Beach, he still loses parts for ‘not being Chinese enough’.
In her first feature-length documentary, New York-based Zhao Yehui captures the story of four generations of her family, set against a backdrop of hardship high in the mountains of Shanxi province.
Singaporean director and writer Yeo Siew Hua talks about addressing the age of surveillance in his new film Stranger Eyes, Chinese philosophy, and why he is on the lookout for collaborations.
The BBC’s wildlife team strikes gold again with Mammals, a documentary series that marvels at some of the planet’s famous and less mentioned animals, from wolves to snow leopards to Singapore’s otters.
Filipino director Mikhail Red talks about Friendly Fire, his upcoming esports movie, why he loves making horror films, and how it is hard to survive as a filmmaker in the Philippines.
Debbie Lam is a film producer who has worked with directors including Jackie Chan, John Woo and Wong Kar-wai. She thinks it’s time to give a new generation of Hong Kong directors the chance to shine.
