Cultural events lined up for PHL-Japan friendship month
A series of cultural events have been lined up this July to mark 55 years of "long-standing warm friendship and cooperation"...
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The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival: Wrap-Up
The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival concluded its 11-day run on Sunday, wrapping up a well-attended but slightly banal program that...
Indonesia asks Hollywood to find other importers
Debates over the absence of Hollywood movies at local cinemas have gone bilateral, with Indonesia asking the US to find other...
Indonesia import woes set to continue
Getting a steady flow of Hollywood movies back into Indonesia could take several more months, despite the government's recent announcement of...
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...
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...