The Cinema Exchange

28/08/2026

Ji-won Oh, co-founder of The Cinema Exchange, writes an article about pitching Korean content in today's day and age! Please give it a read 🙏

What international pitching can learn from the global success of Korean screen content

21/08/2026

Check out our newest review from the Hong Kong Golden Age 1985-1997 season at The Garden Cinema!

By Timothy Holm ([email protected])

17/08/2026

Here's our next review for the Hong Kong Golden Age season, currently ongoing at The Garden Cinema in London - a special film that looks at a cross-cultural relationship between a Japanese tourist and a young girl in Hong Kong

By Timothy Holm ([email protected])

10/08/2026

Here's another review from The Garden Cinema's ongoing 'Hong Kong Golden Age 1985-1997' season!

By Timothy Holm ([email protected])

05/08/2026

Our new essay looks at this infamous Chinese Communist propaganda film from 1965...

By Timothy Holm ([email protected])

26/07/2026

Check out our review of the first Korean film ever directed by a woman! 'The Widow' (1955) was screened recently in a new 4K restoration at Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol.

Rediscovering Korea's first female-directed film, The Widow (1955), at Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol

24/07/2026

Read our review of 'Eight Taels of Gold', a classic migration story from Hong Kong's Golden Age starring Sammo Hung and Sylvia Chang~
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23/07/2026

Check out our overview of this exciting film season which is on now at the beautiful Garden Cinema in Covent Garden!

Running from now to the end of August 2026 at the beautiful art-deco style Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, Hong Kong Golden Age 1985-1997 is a sweeping season dedicated to the era when Hong Kong cinema was, by some measu...

08/07/2026

Here is our obituary for the great film critic Tony Rayns... May he rest in peace.

By Timothy Holm

02/07/2026

We're a bit late to the party (and technically, this isn't even a film), but we loved Series 2 (or Season 2, for anyone outside the UK) of BEEF on Netflix so much - and have been thinking about it constantly the past few days - so we just had to write about it! What did you think of it - especially the philosophical aspects and Korean elements?

Netflix's Emmy-sweeping anthology returns with a new cast, a new continent, and the same appetite for watching people quietly ruin themselves - this time over love and money rather than a parking-lot slight.