Film Review: ‘Minari’ Is an Arresting Masterpiece With Powerful Acting, Refined Visuals, and Charming Humour
A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas. Director: Lee Isaac Chung Cast: Steven Yuen, Han Ye-Ri, Alan Kim, Noel...
Film Review: Cathy Yan’s ‘Dead Pigs’《海上浮城》Is as Whimsical as It Is Bold and Funny
The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and...
Film Review: ‘Classmates Minus’ Explores Middle-age Crisis with Dark Comedy and Metafictional Sleight of Hand
Four high school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman, and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled...
Film Review: Although Slow-moving, ‘A Tale of Three Sisters’ is an Atmospheric, Gorgeous Look into Turkish Rural and Cultural Life
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster...
Film Review: ‘Layla Majnun’ Pays Tribute to a Classical Love Poem By Celebrating and Idealising Enduring Love
While in Azerbaijan, Layla, an Indonesian scholar, falls for Samir, an admirer of her work - but her arranged marriage stands...
Film Review: Despite Its Over-exaggerated Theatrics, ‘Detective Chinatown 2’ Still Impresses with Its Fun and Engaging Mystery Intrigue
Tang and Qin team up to solve a murder in New York's Chinatown. Director: Chen Sicheng Cast: Liu Haoran, Wang Baoqiang,...
Film Review: ‘Little Big Women’《孤味》Is Big on Sentimental Moments With Powerful Performances From a Stellar Cast
On Shoying's 70th birthday, she learns that her long-lost husband Bochang has died. The worst is that there is another woman...
12 Asian Women-Centric Films That Glimpse Into the Vast Array of Women’s Experiences
Women have historically been portrayed or casted in films as supporting characters in relation to men. Often, they are limited by...
Analysis: Forget the ‘Real’ India — Is There a ‘Real’ America in ‘The White Tiger’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?
(Spoilers ahead for Slumdog Millionaire and The White Tiger) The release of Ramin Bharani’s The White Tiger has brought about a...
Film Review: ‘Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train’ Dazzles with Captivating Fight Sequences and Pristine Animation
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared...
Interview: Marcus Lim, Director and Writer of Spy Thriller ‘The Man on the Other Side’
A Singaporean filmmaker making a film set in Germany during the Cold War must have raised several eyebrows. Why would someone...
Film Review: ‘Avatar’ Is So Delightfully Over-the-Top That It Should Be a Singaporean Cult Classic
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around...