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SIFF 2008 - An Interview with James LEONG and Lynn LEE, Directors of Homeless FC

This year's Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), into its 21st edition, runs from 4th to 14th April, and features an unprecedented 13 local feature films and documentaries in a Singapore Panorama section. I came to experience James and Lynn’s documentaries... More »

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SIFF 2008 - An Interview with Sherman ONG, Screenwriter-Director of Hashi

This year's Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), into its 21st edition, runs from 4th to 14th April, and features an unprecedented 13 local feature films and documentaries in a Singapore Panorama section. Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sherman Ong will present... More »

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Review of AN EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS

I guess a new Hong Kong trend is emerging. I recall that as a kid, there was the Mr Vampire movie, which spawned a slew of Chinese vampire movies in its wake. Then there was John Woo's A Better Tomorrow,... More »

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SIFF 2008 - An Interview with ENG Yee Peng, Director of Diminishing Memories II

This year's Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), into its 21st edition, runs from 4th to 14th April, and features an unprecedented 13 local feature films and documentaries in a Singapore Panorama section. ENG Yee Peng had made a documentary about... More »

By Stefan

SIFF 2008 - An Interview with HAN Yew Kwang, Writer-Director of 18 Grams of Love

By Stefan

SIFF 2008 - An Interview with Kan Lume, Writer-Director of Dreams From The Third World

This year’s Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), into its 21st edition, runs from 4th to 14th April, and features an unprecedented 13 local feature films and documentaries in a Singapore Panorama section. One of Singapore’s more prolific independent directors, Kan... More »

By Stefan

SIFF '08: Exclusive Look at Kan Lume's DREAMS FROM THE THIRD WORLD

This year's Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), into its 21st edition, runs from 4th to 14th April, and features an unprecedented 13 local feature films and documentaries in a Singapore Panorama section. One of Singapore's more prolific independent directors, Kan... More »

By Stefan

Review of SLAM

I guess in movies with sports themes, it is never really much about the goal and the destination, but rather the journey the characters take in finding strengths amongst themselves, shore up weaknesses and collectively present and mount a challenge,... More »

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Review of RULE #1

I'm sure some of you out there would conveniently associate Kelvin Tong's reputation with the dismal Men in White, forgetting that the writer-director had his success stories in his earlier works Eating Air and The Maid. You can tell clearly... More »

By Stefan

SLAM The Movie Official Website

Jay Chou's Kung Fu Dunk's not the only one in Asia this 2008 to deal with basketball. A Singaporean production house, Crimson Forest Films, had apparently gone to China to shoot a basketball movie centered around adolescent youths, and is... More »

By Stefan

Review of AH LONG PTE LTD

You cannot deny the carbon copy of its premise with that of the Korean franchise My Wife is a Gangster, and here we have Singaporean's Fann Wong (Shanghai Knights) join the ranks of Shin Eun-Kyung, Zhang Ziyi and Shu Qi... More »

By Stefan

KUNG FU DUNK Review

This project was originally conceived as the movie version of popular Japanese manga SlamDunk! and that's not something new to Jay Chou, who made his movie debut playing a character from another wildly popular manga Initial D. Along the way,... More »

By Stefan

Ah Long Pte Ltd Website Goes Live!

First Singapore movie to go off the blocks in 2008 is Jack Neo's Ah Long Pte Ltd, though the film seems to have taken a major leaf out of Korea's My Wife is a Gangster series, of course done with... More »

By Stefan

Review: ASSEMBLY

Feng Xiaogang's Assembly was the opening film at last year's Pusan International Film Festival, and tickets were sold out in record time once they were made available online. Such is the faith (or curiosity) of the new film from the... More »

By Stefan

Review: LINGER

A romance movie may be simple to make, but also amongst the most difficult. Almost every other movie out there has a romantic angle in it, and if the movie is one that has it as a primary, it either... More »

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THE WARLORDS... Another Review

Two's a company and three's a crowd. In movieland, that is almost always true, with no black and white, but with shades of grey instead. Of late, period or martial chivalry movies either look aesthetically beautiful like Zhang Yimou's trilogy... More »

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Stefan's MEGA-ToM! (Twitch-O-Meter turns 50, part six)

Once more it's Ardvark here, introducing the next in a persistent bombardment of 50 MEGA-ToM articles. This entry will be written by Stefan Shih. Stefan is our contributor in the lovely (and clean!) city-state of Singapore. As such he has... More »

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THE TATTOOIST Review

"He needs a doctor." "No, he needs a tattoo!" And with that comes the chuckles when the latter line is uttered by Singaporean actor Gerald Chew. The Tattooist is the second New Zealand horror movie to hit our screens... More »

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Yasmin Ahmad's MUKHSIN on DVD

Mukhsin, Yasmin Ahmad's movie which won 2 awards at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival, is now available on DVD and with English subtitles, published by Dragon Jester, a Malaysian company. The menus are in Malay, but those who English... More »

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THE DRUMMER Review

Anything with drums, and I am there. The beats of drums in any music always appeal to me (no prizes for guessing I'm a drum and bass fan), because I suppose it's fairly easy to express your mood to beats,... More »

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Leading Voices in Global Cinema

Todd Brown, Founder & Editor Toronto
Peter Martin, Managing Editor Dallas
Ryland Aldrich, Festivals Editor Los Angeles
James Marsh, Asian Editor Hong Kong
Brian Clark, European Editor Paris

Hollywood Beat: Notes On Cutting The Cord And NBC's Genre Programs

I cut the cable cord last year, but I'm not always happy about it. I had to wait a year before seeing Season 2 of Game of Thrones, for example, and will have to wait to see Season 3 until next year. I only have to wait to see Mad... More »

Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update: Was asked to come in today and pick a few... More »

Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21

While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite au 21), based on the novel by Belgian author Stanislas-Andre... More »

China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 2: I'M IN LOVE WITH EVERYBODY'S GIRL

CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »