The fabled island of Bali will host of a number of high-profile movie-screenings as the 5th Balinale 2011 International Film Festival gets underway from November 15-20, 2011.
The Balinale Film Festival will be held at the Galeria 21 Cineplex, Mal Bali Galeria, Simpang Dewa Ruci at...Read more
ACTOR Faizal Hussein is excited about his latest leading role in the movie, Abu Ya, which opens in cinemas tomorrow.
The 44-year-old actually plays an anti-hero in the movie. His character, Abu Zakaria, was the infamous leader who returned from religious studies in the Middle East, changed his name to Abu Ya and started a r...Read more
The inaccurately-named London Korean Film Festival has expanded this year to include Sheffield and Cambridge, and with new Korean films that have never been seen before in the UK, Q&A sessions with well and not so well-known directors and even a KPop group called ‘SHINee’ giving a live performance o...Read more
If history could be converted into stock options, China would have plenty to cash in: more than 4,000 years’ worth. But the first round of big-budget films since the country’s emergence as a 21st-century power have, mostly, taken the narrow view of those four millennia: unf...Read more
A short film by a Singapore-based Filipino student is one of 14 finalists in an international competition on expressing the meaning of faith through a three-minute screenplay.
“First Steps to Recovery,” a film by 18-year-old Paulo Reyes, a scholar at Singapore’s LASALLE Colle...Read more
Who has an iconic tuft of blonde hair on his head, wears plus fours and sniffs out the news with his pet dog in tow? Sound familiar?
If you guessed ‘Tintin’, then you guessed right.
The character of Tintin, an intrepid reporter, was created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remil (aka Herge) sometime in 1929.
And today,...Read more
Red Light Revolution 红灯梦 (M18)
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011, 5.30pm
ONE SCREENING ONLY
A humorous look at Chinese tradition colliding with modern sexual values, “Red Light Revolution” is the story of an ordinary Beijinger who opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparking a sexu...Read more
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
春去春又来
Directed by Kim Ki Duk
Korean & Drama & 2011 & 103 mins & Korean with English Subtitles &...Read more
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 5.30pm
ONE SCREENING ONLY
Kinks is a mockumentary style feature film. The movie takes a cynical but nevertheless humorous look at two inter-racial sisters who appear far from alike. Inside and outside. One is white and one is dark.
Split up as childre...Read more
Ōba, The Last Samurai is also a visually stunning film, from an impressive opening visual effects shot to the more close-quarters claustrophobic action of the jungle skirmishes.
The film was actually shot entirely on location in Thailand, and every frame maximises the lush locations. Yet it is the relationship...Read more