(A Nutshell) Review

Shanghai Tang If I were to trace my lineage, then the city of Shanghai would feature only two generations away, and having been there for th...

Call me a slow burner, but I only started to religiously follow the Japanese Film Festival in Singapore from 2005, and honestly, it's on...

Man I'm So Hideous! Just to clear the air, this film is not a reboot or a remake of Predator and its associated follow ups. Rather, it i...

Typical The title plays up on how unbelievable love stories can get, and despite its ripping apart the classical romantic films by Dharma Pr...

Pawns of Indecisiveness Dear Bella, if I happen to fancy you but you're openly flirting with another dude who spots some unbelievable ab...

Gunslinger Blues I can vaguely remember, if at all, Derek Yee's Double Tap starring Alex Fong and the late Leslie Cheung in lead roles, ...

Weapons of Mass Destruction This marks Steve Carell's second foray into providing his voice for animated features, the earlier one havin...

Say Hello In a Van Damme movie, if he's held up at a post office by 3 gun-totting man, we can probably bet than he can floor them all wi...

Who's a Naughty Boy Then? Its marketing machinery touts this film as one with authentic Wing Chun moves on display, and I'm wonderin...

Ride to Success What a rush! Knight and Day delivers the quintessential summer blockbuster through a perfectly delivered adrenaline ride wit...

So Much To Read and Reply Amongst the mean girls alumni, I think Amanda Seyfried is probably the one who will do that group proud. We know h...

Hello Gorgeous I guess fans of Amanda Seyfried cannot experience the bold sacrifice she took to star in the Atom Egoyan film Chloe, since he...

Separation The thing about relationships is the risk that it'll run stale, a party being taken for granted, or the notion finally settli...

A shoutout from my friends over at Japan Society : It’s that time of year again… JAPAN CUTS Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema will r...

Sita Sings The Blues My familiarity with the story of Sita-Ram-Ravana stemmed from films such as Delhi-6 , which also starred lead actor Abh...

Friendship, Not Winner of the Best Asian Film Award at last year's Tokyo International Film Festival , and screened out of competition ...

Do You Want Me Back? I've always been intrigued by films that either play itself out in real time, like John Badham's Nick of Time s...

We're Back It was in 1995 that Toy Story signaled the arrival of Pixar, and the rest was history. To date, I have personally always foun...

Execution Based loosely on a true story premise where a French gangster got pumped with lead and left for dead but miraculously survived th...

Dream Come True The cynic in anyone when coming across a couple where a hot chick is with an average or below average guy, will suggest that...