Movies that win praise and prizes abroad are sometimes banned or heavily censored at home, where some religious, racial and sexual themes are considered off-limits. By Mike Ives Reporting from Kuala ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 — Papa Zola The Movie isn’t just riding a wave — it’s rewriting the record books. The home-grown animated adventure has smashed past RM65 million, officially becoming the ...

Jing Ong, the director behind the hit drama, hopes its success can inspire a new generation of filmmakers. By Mathew Scott While the moving Malaysian drama Abang Adik has cleaned up at numerous award ...

SINGAPORE – In Fan Bingbing’s latest movie Mother Bhumi (2025), the Qingdao-born actress put on 10kg, wore a prosthetic nose and was almost always covered in sweat and grime to play a widowed farmer ...

Writer-director Amanda Nell Eu’s playfully subversive story about a young girl confronting the horrors of puberty draws on 1950s-era Malaysian monster cinema for a genre-bending tale that “celebrates ...

Chinese streamer and producer iQiyi is joining forces with Malaysia’s GSC Movies and Singapore-based Clover Films to handle theatrical distribution of its Chinese-language films in their respective ...