Commentary: Why ‘Fast and Furious’ Is Bigger Than ‘Star Wars’ in China
Starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, 1993 action-thriller The Fugitive would be the first fresh major Hollywood blockbuster screened in...
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A Sneak Peek of What’s To Come From the Singapore Film Society in 2021
The Singapore Film Society (SFS) has been the second home for many film fanatics in the country since its beginnings in...
Commentary: How Godzilla Trampled Over Whitewashing To Become A Global Icon
In recent decades, Hollywood’s long-standing habit of appropriating and whitewashing Asian stories have been rightfully called out. Adaptations of Asian films...
The Happy, The Sad, and The End: Why Endings in LGBTQ Films Matter
(Spoilers ahead for "Dear Tenant' (2020)", "Your Name Engraved Herein" (2020), and "Happy Together" (1997)) It’s no secret that LGBTQ films...
A Look Back At Sinema Media’s Past Decade
Starting out as an independent blog in 2006 by Originasian Pictures, Sinema.SG declared: Sinema gives a greater voice to all Singapore...
The Importance of Being Authentic: Writer and Host Jemimah Wei Says It Like It Is
Choosing to become a writer is simply not the most feasible nor practical profession in Singapore – something which Jemimah Wei...
Staff Picks: Our Favourite Films of 2020
To say that the global pandemic has brought a sea-change to films would be an understatement. It’s been a year without...
A Student of the Game — Multi-Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Shabir Says It Like It Is
Shabir — multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, producer, composer, Singapore Youth Award recipient and a trailblazer in Singapore’s Tamil music scene. Since making his...
Film Analysis: ‘Over The Moon’ is a Masterclass in Asian Representation for the Universal Audience
Over The Moon is an American-Chinese film about a girl named Fei Fei and her journey to find the moon goddess...
SGIFF’s Singapore Panorama Programme 2 Beautifully Captures the Diverse Cultural Landscape in Singapore
From love stories taking place in East Coast Park, to a heart-wrenching story about undocumented migrant workers, the six shorts in...
On the Complex Nature of Loss in SGIFF’s Singapore Panorama Programme 1
At times raw and full of feeling, at times restrained yet thrumming with an undercurrent of tension, the 31st SGIFF’s first...
From Law to ‘Forked’: Actor and Playwright Jo Tan Says It Like It Is
Despite informing her superiors at work about an audition later in the evening, a young Jo Tan found herself stacked with...