Bront in director’s chair
After talking about doing it for quite awhile, award-winning actor Bront Palarae achieved his dream by making his film directorial debut...
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Cleopatra Wong revamped
In France to receive an honorary award at the Paris Cinéma Festival, Doris Young (楊秀娟) has announced that she will revive...
Fans and fallacies
Rajinikant, the megastar of South Indian films, after getting discharged from a hospital in Singapore recently, wrote a letter to his...
No Harry Potter Film for Indonesia
Indonesian moviegoers are facing a bleak year of second-rate foreign releases and lowbrow local productions as Hollywood studios, the government, and...
Four individuals, team receive Singapore Youth Award
Four individuals and one team were accorded Singapore's highest youth accolade on Sunday afternoon. The Singapore Youth Award (SYA) recognises outstanding...
Review: Sinema Showoff! Beyond Paradise (Part 1)
The recent Sinema Showoff! event was titled Beyond Paradise, and the four films screened that night were all shot overseas. But...
The new darling of kollywood
A FEW YEARS ago, Kollywood was abuzz with directors like Selvaraghavan who would darken their plotlines to intense levels. Now a...
Art house comedy hits all the right notes
The plot of The Piano in a Factory is easily summarized: A father makes a piano of steel to win over...
Web ratings prohibited for new Chinese movie
BEIJNG--At least two major entertainment websites in China have stopped allowing users to review the country's newest propaganda blockbuster on the...
The science of martial arts
Veteran Hong Kong director Peter Chan's latest film aims to demystify martial arts, while also tackling moral dilemmas. Liu Wei reports. It...
Epic films a record of revival
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has been prominent in Chinese cinema, both onscreen and offscreen, almost since the very beginning....
Tim Burton: Nine monster movies that inspired him
Tim Burton's gleefully macabre aesthetic is currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - the exhibition that...