The Torch: Visualize Customize Iconize?
I like to challenge people, as much as I do myself, on their beliefs and commonly accepted truisms. To me, this...
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The Torch: Your film’s emotional balance sheet
Emotions arguably are the best a film can convey to its audience, inspiring laughter or sadness, causing horror or any form...
The Torch: Bonus material on your DVD — Does it add up?
I am a passionate consumer, you guessed it, and so it is that I care about my value-for-money ratio when buying...
The Torch: In the Crux – Location scouting
The place, if strong and telling, can become the whole picture, the whole story in some cases, if done intelligently and...
Making the case of a little film: Twogether by Victric Thng
At The Substation Theatre screening on July 26, short film Twogether by Victric Thng had its belated Singapore premiere in the...
The Torch: A Cinephile’s Truism — Film Conquers Reality
Let's test this line for its worth by assessing the ever-mysterious interrelationship that undeniably exists between the world as it is...
The Torch: High trash
Film is a matter of taste. It is odd at times to witness how elaborately twisted and scrupulously refined we can...
The Torch: In the crux — Acting: what role does the actor play?
It has always been a bit of a mystery to me how amongst the plethora of factors that altogether determine the...
The Torch: Mainstreaming — On bringing your film in line with the system
Spend other people's money and expect your fellow countrymen to pay for watching the result — that's what a filmmaker is...
The Torch: Idealism in film — or how to generate a visual message
All of us who are avid movie-goers and turn up at film festivals large or small (and maybe even travel for...
The Torch: In the crux — Sounds and scores
...and then, what's music to my eyes? A single strong theme in a movie will hardly see you through the entire...
The Torch: Death or Humour?
It's not an option, in real life anyway: What splendour it might offer comes mostly in just so many shades of...