SINdie Review: SGIFF2015 ““ Singapore Panorama Shorts 2
Singapore Panorama Shorts 2 @SGIFF 2015 was a showcase of four distinctly local, Mandarin short films by young filmmakers. Here are our...
REVIEWS
Indiewire: 8 Powerful Dramas About Coming Of Age in Captivity
When the coming-of-age story meets the captivity drama, the results are often powerful, complex and hard to shake. "Beasts of No...
Twitch Film Review: THE ASSASSIN, An Unqualified Success, Or, A Studied Bit Of Installation Art
The first thing that strikes you in The Assassin is the quiet. Hou Hsiao-Hsien's ruminative tone-poem, about a Tang Dynasty sell-sword...
SINdie: Review Notes from the 2015 Asian Film Symposium
Over 40 short films at the Asian Film Symposium this year! We tried to bear witness to as many as we...
The Straits Times Review: China movie Lost In Hong Kong is a madcap love letter to the territory
REVIEW / COMEDY LOST IN HONG KONG (NC16) 113 minutes/Opens tomorrow/ 3.5/5 STARS The story: Xu Lai (Xu Zheng) never managed...
The Straits Times Review: Royston Tan’s new feature 3688 shows he needs fresher ways to express his vision
Royston Tan's 3688 charms with its recognisable Singapore setting and hopeful characters The colours pop, the characters have their feet in...
On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, with Love
Tan Pin Pin's latest documentary, To Singapore, with Love (2013), opens with a shot outside a London home. Inside, Ho Juan...
SINdie Review: From Print to Animation in Utter 2015
Screened over the weekend, from 28 to 30 Aug, were 5 short films which had origins in literary works of 5...
Northwest Asian Review: Jellyfish Eyes
The poster and publicity for "Jellyfish Eyes," the debut film from Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, left me wondering if the film...
Straits Times Review: WILD CITY (NC16) – Action trumps coherence
Director Ringo Lam paints Hong Kong as a society where money talks. The story: Bar owner and ex-cop T-Man (Louis Koo)...
SINdie: National Youth Film Awards 2015 – Selection of Reviews
The inaugural National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) at *SCAPE aims to identify and celebrate talents from the industry and Institutes of...
InSing Review: The Crossing Part 2
The question you will likely ask yourself after watching this is: Did it require two movies to tell the story about...