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Sammo Hung: A Retrospective
菠萝, 凤梨 [Carp Leaping Over Dragon’s Gate] (2023)
Unfiltered Desolation: Adolescence in A Boy and a Girl (少男少女) review
A film by Wes Anderson.
Even though Singapore’s hawker food is widely beloved and part of the quintessential local diet, no film has ever featured hawker culture centre stage until King of Hawkers, which was released in February 2024—six decades since pioneer hawkers cooked their way to our hearts.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ works are best described as an exploration of the dark side of human nature. If you are familiar with his past works like Lobster (2015) or The Killing of a Scared Deer (2017), you would expect nothing short of absurdity from his latest feature, Poor Things.
How do we mourn for someone not yet gone - more so through the eyes of a child where death is incomprehensible?
When I think of the Y2K era, one of the first things that comes to mind is the various teen comedy and drama films, all chronicling the typical American high school experience.
With a cinematography and plotline that parallels that of David William’s Brazil (1985), Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite (2019) and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, The Tenants (2023) by Yoon Eunkyuong manages a brilliant reimagining of the ways in which dystopian worlds can be constructed through the sci-fi horror genre.
To the general population, if you asked them what they think about ‘slow cinema’ most of them would probably say something along the lines of “boring”, “too artsy” or “hard to stay awake and hold my attention” but Pham Thien An’s directorial feature debut, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, is anything but.