Sinema Review: “Faeryville”
Identity, truth, freedom and rebellion. These are a few of the epic keywords that highlight the multiple themes of Faeryville. Faeryville...
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Cannes Review: “˜Our Little Sister’
Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest fractured-family drama is a graceful yet somewhat emotionally muffled portrait of four siblings. Marking the subtle transitions in...
Lack of support from local cinemas makes Unlucky Plaza truly unlucky
Unlucky Plaza opened the 25th Singapore International Film Festival in December last year, with two sold out screenings. It opened in...
Film Review: Lang Tong
Though writer-director-producer Sam LOH ç¾…å‹ deserves kudos for trying to break the conservative mould of Singapore film with this "first erotic thriller", the truth...
Film Review: Standing in Still Water
STANDING IN STILL WATER reflects the lives of damaged Singaporeans, including a crippled young woman on the road of recovery; a...
Film Review: Unlucky Plaza
Among the constant stream of in-jokes driving hostage drama Unlucky Plaza, one stands out. As the hapless and accidental captor Onassis (Epy...
Film Review: Rubbers
An out-there comedy on sexual frustration, Singapore style, Rubbers 套 starts like a collegiate gross-out movie but develops a typically Southeast Asian sweetness...
Will this ‘devil’ reel in money?
AFTER Shrek Forever After, The Incredible Hulk, The Green Hornet and The Green Lantern, local moviegoers will get to see another...
Sector 7’s watery grave
Han Ji-won is the Korean version of "Sigourney Weaver in Alien" (1979). That's because "Sector 7 (Korean sci-fi thriller)" has been...
Movie review: One Day
Some viewers might compare One Day to the 2008 Singapore film, The Leap Years, since the stories in both films straddle...
Yet another romantic comedy
No, "What's Your Number?" isn't about a guy and his cheesy pick up lines. Instead, it is about a woman, and...
VIFF 2011: Gay Asian films explore world of prostitution
Quite a number of queer-interest films at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival hail from Asia as part of the 'Dragons...