(A Nutshell) Review

Lovers We have Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie to thank for in coining that Little Red Dot term for Singapore, which was meant to be derogatory,...

Dreaming Park Chan Wook probably outdone himself with Stoker given the casting coup of his leading players in the film, which surprisingly...

Something Under 23:59 , despite its weak storyline, became the sleeper hit of 2011 at the box office for Gorylah pictures, and thrust dire...

Go Ahead Punk, Make My Day In Takeshi Kitano's Outrage , we sat through some heavy plotting and counter-schemes where every one, a col...

What's Up? It isn't everyday that I promote a DVD release, but that's also because it isn't everyday that local DVD releas...

And I was just lamenting the other day that Singapore movies should not continue to flog the dead 4D plot elements and gambling themes, beca...

Holiday Album The Bengali film Shunyo Awnko, written and directed by Goutam Ghose, is one of those films that have plenty of grand ideas r...

Jack Be Nimble Besides comic book movies, it seems that Fairy Tale ones are gaining traction in being reinvented for the big screen, given...

Winter Sonata The word on the street is that this is the expected successor after the conclusion of the Twilight film franchise , having ...

Lifeguard on Duty There are romance genre films coming out which are unconventional, creative and quirky, and then there are others which ...

I Wanna Try Big Iron The Chinese martial arts genre have undergone some attempts at making it sexy again, with Stephen Fung flying the fla...

I Need Numbers! Nine short films and twelve directors. This omnibus horror film project doesn't get any bigger, with each creative tea...

The Three Amigos Some 3 years ago, Chetan Bhagat's novel 3 Point Someone was made into Rajkumar Hirani's film 3 Idiots starring A...

A Presidential Welcome The distributor of Hyde Park on Hudson here could have prepped this as counter-programming during this Oscar season...

Urge to Bite How far the mighty have fallen indeed. In 1995, writer-director Amy Heckerling hit the nail on the head with what would be th...

Wait Till You See What I Got Hidden! If you're up for some short stories in the comedy genre, then this film is for you, if you don...

Walking Into History Daniel Day-Lewis is primed for another Best Actor Oscar, and the truth is it's not hard to see why, and he doesn...

No We're Not Serving Coffee Now! You'll probably know Robert Zemeckis through his films such as the Back to the Future trilogy, an...

Crawl Away, Nice and Slow Are Singapore movies becoming predictable, and is there an unwritten rule that first time feature filmmakers oug...

You Can Be Clark Kent There's almost always something special about a director's early films, as the charm comes from its inherent...