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...
FILM
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...
Rediscovering the Unseen/Unsaid in Singapore
Curated by "a group of young, Singaporean dreamers", the crew behind RediscoverSG "believe in little things that go a long way"....
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...
Multicultural film fest beckons foreign residents
Though some 1.2 million foreigners reside in Korea, amenities for non-natives are still deemed insufficient. In hopes of filling in the...