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Would you be nervous if you needed to phone Sir Ben Kingsley – always “Sir Ben”, you do not trifle with the title – and convince him to be in your film?
You should be nervous. Destin Daniel Cretton would be the first to tell you that he was anxious when he called Kingsley at his London home to ask him if he might reprise the role of the washed-up, drug-addled actor Trevor Slattery, who was first seen in Iron Man 3 in 2013.
When Kiyoha Kiritaka left Kyoto’s geisha district in 2016, she was escaping what she now calls “a system of slavery”, exposing a darker reality behind…
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There she stands, in that iconic hot pink gown, arms thrown open wide as if to both offer herself to the world and embrace what…
This is the 71st instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. Back in the first decade of…
Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes. On December 10, the UN’s cultural agency gave foodies…