A S’pore Film Fest guide for everyone
THE 24th Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), which was pushed back five months from its usual April run, finally kicks off...
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Pupil makes shortlist in Tony Blair Foundation film competition
A schoolboy's three-minute movie about how faith steered his family through adversity has been shortlisted for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's...
Tibaldo: Let’s be Cinemate!
BEN Pinga, the acclaimed Father of Filipino Independent Filmmakers passed away several years ago silently fading like an old black and...
Taut Indonesian Thriller Hits the Spot: Film Review
Recent Indonesian horror films have not been satisfying. Despite that, the genre, which is awash with ghosts and erotica, is winning...
Indonesian Action Film The Raid Gets An Utterly Explosive First Trailer, Images, Synopsis, And A Mike Shinoda Score
Asian cinema is probably best known, at least internationally, for being especially good at making three types of films: cute cuddly...
Celluloid Dreams Acquires Worldwide Rights to Greetings From Tim Buckley
International production and sales outfit Celluloid Dreams, headed by Hengameh Panahi, has acquired worldwide rights to the highly anticipated film GREETINGS...
For Michelle Yeoh, The Lady is role of lifetime
For action star Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's best known actresses, the chance to play Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi...
Myanmar democracy leader’s love story debuts at film fest
Myanmar's revered pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is now also a movie protagonist after Luc Besson's...
New World
Story: Beijing, December 2010. After hearing interesting thinks about Osaka, Coco (Coco Shi) tells her businessman boyfriend Jimmy (Liu Dunlin) that...
Malaysian rapper skewers racial ties in new film
But Wee Meng Chee -- better known by the alias Namewee -- characteristically pulls few punches in "Nasi Lemak 2.0," an...
RGM Media sells rights to Point Break
Alcon Entertainment has secured the rights to produce a reboot of 1991 action thriller Point Break from rights holder RGM Media...
Hudson to head Mumbai competition jury
The Chariots Of Fire director heads a jury that also includes Roger Spottiswoode, Polish director-Jerzy Skolimowski and Korean filmmaker Na Hong-Jin,...