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Wolfwalkers, and what we lose in imperialism

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“Anime is like sushi”: How a ‘niche’ medium breaks free of a worldwide misunderstanding

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Over the Moon aims high, but it doesn’t quite achieve lift-off | Review

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#Alive is a zombie movie with surprisingly hopeful commentary for our digital age | Review

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In Strangers from Hell, true terror is being under the thumb of society

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Tenet is mind-bending, but lacks one of Nolan’s greatest strength – humanity

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Roh rises as an atmospheric, haunting film about hidden terrors| Review

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Fires at Midnight burns bright as a morbid Malaysian story | Review

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Live-action Detention loses the scares and subtlety of the game, but doesn’t lose sight of its weight | Review

On Feb 13, 2020 9:44 pm, by JY Tan

Detention is the best (and, in most ways, truest) video game adaptation ever made. There, I said it.

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Birds of Hurray (And The Fantabulous Experience of Watching One Harley Quinn)

On Feb 11, 2020 9:32 am, by LM Foong

Harley Quinn finds her wings with the Birds of Prey, while female filmmakers take (anti) superhero movies to new heights.

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As a remake of Drishyam, Sheep Without a Shepherd is flawed but commendable | Review

On Jan 31, 2020 1:02 pm, by LM Foong

A movie about movies, except not really.

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“It’s like we’re married”: The Ghost Bride directors on making Netflix’s first Chinese language original

On Jan 21, 2020 9:57 pm, by LM Foong
Directors Quek Shio Chuan and Ho Yuhang

Award-winning Malaysian directors Quek Shiochuan and Ho Yuhang on filmmaking firsts, bromantic sparks and the strange experience of working with Netflix.

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How The Rise of Skywalker showed that Star Wars is stuck in the past

On Jan 21, 2020 2:39 pm, by JY Tan

The best and worst thing about Star Wars is that it’s inherently a franchise fixated on the past.

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Death Unstranding (Entry 4): Channeling Norman Reedus, the Everyman

On Jan 13, 2020 8:43 am, by C Nge

The protagonist of Death Stranding is no samurai, soldier or superhero. He has an ordinary job, and he does it doggedly well. This may very well make him the game hero we need for our time. (Partial nudity in this post, in case this matters)

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Ejen Ali opened my eyes to what franchise-based movies can do | Review

On Dec 23, 2019 9:30 pm, by JY Tan

Ejen Ali: The Movie isn’t just fun and thrilling, but the rare example that franchise-based feature films can challenge and intrigue.

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Netflix’s The Witcher is a bewitch-er | Early Access

On Dec 20, 2019 11:30 am, by J Cheong

Netflix’s The Witcher stays true to the source material and adds it’s own dash of magic into the formula. It’s quite an entertaining mutation.

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Death Unstranding (Entry 3): Connecting the Knots

On Dec 17, 2019 7:09 pm, by C Nge

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding is not shy about telling a grandiose political story, but its strength is in telling small, human ones.

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Frozen II is a movie for our era of change

On Dec 13, 2019 1:49 pm, by LM Foong

How do we deal with the current climate of upheavals? We follow Elsa and Anna into the unknown.

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