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Review: Pob (2018)
Manop and Pob“Don’t leave me behind!” is a feeling that makes me shove my books into my bag and cling onto my colleagues as we leave the office. I say this out of fear that I may run into something,...
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Joko Anwar: "Horror is the most honest genre."
Who do you call if you need some scares, some tears, and a whole lot of despair? Why, you get the current stalwart of Indonesian cinema, Joko Anwar of course. One of the most prolific filmmakers of the...
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Review: Bangla (2018)
Winner of the National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) 2018 and the only Singaporean entry to be selected for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & Asia) 2019, Bangla by Idette Chen casts a...
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Review: A Mother's Love (2018)
A Woman, A Mother and A Ghost - for the female in an Asian Horror flick, these are necessary revision, the foundation of stories exchanged on bus rides home, and the thought that plagues us later when...
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Review: Furie (2019)
Le-Van Kiet’s newest crime thriller Furie closed out Udine Far East Film Festival 2019, and follows a well trod kidnapped child and vengeful parent with a special set of skills plot design....
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Piece of cake? No, meat! Talking animation with Jerrold Chong and JX Huang
A lamb cutlet works herself to the bone to support herself, supporting her younger brother and her sickly mother in a world where the odds are stacked up against them. Her teenage brother, a durian, is...
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Review: Medium Rare (1991)
The Toa Payoh ritual murders had been a harrowing episode in the history of Singapore.That year, when news broke that a nine-year-old girl’s naked and assaulted body had been found at a lift landing,...
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ShoutOUT! Third edition of SeaShorts goes to Malacca in September
SeaShorts Film Festival is set to debut in Malacca this 25th to 29th September. Now in its third edition, the annual affair will host as usual a fresh line-up of works from emerging and established...
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Review: Pengabdi Setan (Satan's Slave) (1980)
The notion of a mortal death occupies several cultural positions; secularly speaking, it is the ultimate destination, a vanishing point towards which all roads lead; religiously, it is perhaps...
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Review: Song Lang (2018)
The trailer for Song Lang (2018) may make one recall of Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine,due to its similar storytelling blueprint of queer relationships set within a theatrical context. However,...
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Review: God or Dog (1997)
Religion can be sticky and it is still one of those topics we do not talk about much in 2019. Let's not even talk about wanting to become a God and then believing it to be true. So imagine what a...
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ShoutOUT! 26 Southeast Asian shorts vying for awards at SeaShorts
Vinegar Baths by Amanda Nell Eu from Malaysia, one of the shorts vying for awards at SeaShortsMore than 350 submissions were received by the SeaShorts Film Festival this year, happening in Malacca...
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Review: Mekong Hotel (2012)
Writing about the inimitable Apichatpong Weerasathakul is like dancing on a god’s altar with dirty feet: irreverent. Inside the acclaimed director’s head bubbles a mind that sews image, sound and...
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'Home is where the heart is' on Viddsee redefines incarceration
Many films of late lead us to question the idea of criminality. We all have our reasons for doing things and sometimes stepping outside society's boundaries. The best study of this is Hirokazu...
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Trending: An Interview with Arden Rod Condez on 'John Denver Trending'
With the level of cinematographic attention to the depiction of this story, it is hard to believe that John Denver Trending is Arden Rod Condez's directorial debut. This film tells a cautionary tale...
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Cinemalaya 2019 Pitstop: 'Heist School' by Julius Renomeron Jr.
Blame it on the Thais. They started the whole cheating game with the sensational Bad Genius. Now others have been inspired. In the spirit of Ocean's Eleven, filmmaker Julius Renomeron Jr. transplants...
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Cinemalaya 2019 Pitstop: 'Kontrolado ni Girly ang Buhay N’ya (Girly is in...
The film begins abruptly. We see the back of a thinly figure as he strolls down the corridor of a factory at work. When we finally see his face, he looks vulnerable and lost as he's told that his...
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Cinemalaya 2019 Pitstop: 'Sa Gabing Tanging Liwanag ay Paniniwala' by Francis...
This chilling psycho-horror short film tell a story about the disappearances of people and their identities. Dylan, the son of the town captain Soliman, had seen the missing people and knows where they...
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An Interview with Sean Ng on 'A Golden Mile'
Sean Ng's short film 'A Golden Mile' (available on Viddsee, scroll down to watch it!) will likely strike a chord with many Singaporeans. The film is best viewed knowing the context within which it has...
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ShoutOUT! 3rd Malaysian Film Festival in Singapore opens on 29 August
Crossroads: One, Two, Jaga Every year, the Malaysian Film Festival in Singapore showcases some of the best and well-travelled Malaysian feature films over the year at the Old Parliament House (the Arts...
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