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ShoutOUT!: Last chance to see film doctors at the Armernian Clinic
Like how we recommended a Singapore film for every occasion when the year started, the is a film for every problem too! Your job sucks? Early mid-life crisis? Heart stolen or broken? Come see a film...
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Production Talk - Yessi, 'Lulu the Movie' finally opens this week!
There were not just one PRC lady in big curls and leopard prints, but two, at the press conference (picture below) of ‘Lulu The Movie’. Lulu brought her sister Roo Roo, played by popular local TV host...
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ShoutOUT!: Viddsee partners Singapore Film Commission in new SG Film Channel
Home-grown online entertainment channel Viddsee launched a new Singapore Film Channel with the support of the Singapore Film Commission (SFC), part of the Info-Communications Media Development...
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ShoutOUT!: 6 films to mark 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence – that’s the campaign by the UN Women to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. It starts today, 25 November, the...
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Reporting sick at The Armenian 'Film' Clinic @Substation
The people at The Substation were dead serious about the Armenian Clinic project if the facade of the clinic was anything to go by. They retrofitted the entrance in the likeness of an old-school...
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QnA with Producer Anthony Chen and Directors Shijie, Yukun and Sivaroj for...
On 27th May 2016, SINdie was invited to the Singapore Gala Premiere of Distance by Producer Anthony Chen, featuring Directors Shijie, Yukun and Sivaroj who were behind the short films that made up this...
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Review - 'Lulu the Movie'
Michelle Chong’s third directorial film project, Lulu The Movie opened late November this year at Cathay. Centering around everyone’s beloved The Noose character Lulu, a parody of the stereotypical PRC...
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A Night that gathered the Best in Asian Cinema - 27th SGIFF Silver Screen Awards
The 27th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) announced its winners of the Silver Screen Awards at Marina Bay Sands this evening, wrapping up an exciting year for the region’s filmmakers. This...
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@SGIFF 2016 Review - 'By the Time it Gets Dark'
Anocha Suwichakornpong's second feature,‘By the Time it Gets Dark’ is a mystical mystery that is haunted by the 1977 massacre in Bangkok. To unjustifiably simplify a complex film, ‘By the Time it Gets...
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@SGIFF 2016 Review - 'Singing in Graveyards'
Bradley Liew’s ‘Singing in Graveyards’ is an existential drama with a twist. A washed up rock ‘n’ roll impersonator seeking former glory sounds like a cliché story in the same vein as Darren...
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@SGIFF 2016: Review - 'I, Daniel Blake'
2016 has been a year in which protests are filling up much of our news airtime, and the us-versus-establishment struggles have been played out in so many different countries. This makes ‘I, Daniel...
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ShoutOUT!: A breathtaking 8-hour film is screening at the Arts House this...
This Sunday (11 Dec) at the Arts House, an epic eight-hour film will be screened. You read it correctly, it's eight hours. The name of the film is 'In course of the miraculous' by artist/filmmaker...
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ShoutOUT! The ciNE65 film competition returns 'Home' next year
In 2015, the winners of the third edition of ciNE65 were taken on a trip to an international film festival as part of their victory prize. Yes, they went up north to the Land of the Rising Sun, no...
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Wee Li Lin and Sanif Olek go back to their 'Roots' with 2 new short films
The hairdresser's a popular stop for movie directors, not to get their hair done but to shoot a film. The interplay of colours, mirrors, machines and clutter forms a richly textured visual tapestry. To...
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Boo Junfeng’s ‘Apprentice’ - One More Take
This review of Boo Junfeng’s ‘Apprentice’ is six months late, as some circumstances have led it to be so. But in a way entirely not pre-meditated, writing this review at the end of the year creates an...
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STOP10 Jan 2017: 'Ways of Seeing' by Jerrold Chong
A recent addition to Viddsee's stable of films and part of Viddsee's recently-launched Singapore Film Channel is Ways of Seeing, directed by Jerrold Chong, whose CV includes an internship on the film...
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STOP10 Jan 2017: 'Move Out Notice' by Leon Cheo
Move Out Notice is a breezy comedy regarding the differences and miscommunication between parent and child. This film comes from one of Viddsee's latest selections under its recently-launched Singapore...
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STOP10 Jan 2017: 'Unlucky Plaza' by Ken Kwek
This January, pick up a copy of the DVD of Ken Kwek's Unlucky Plaza, a bold genre exercise of a kind rarely seen in local cinema. As I wrote in my original review of Unlucky Plaza, back when it opened...
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STOP10 Jan 2017: 'Saint Jack' by Peter Bogdanovich
Saint Jack (1979) by Peter Bogdanovich can claim the title of being the first Hollywood movie to be filmed entirely on location in Singapore. It was also famous for another reason - it was banned for...
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STOP10 Jan 2017: 'Ring of Fury' (血指环) by Tony Yeow
Ring of Fury 血指环 (1973) by Tony Yeow, can be considered Singapore's first martial arts action film and you can watch it on either 7 January or 3 February, as part of the Asian Film Archive's 'State of...
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