Film & TV
A French dance troupe descends into a hellish, hedonistic acid trip in Gaspar Noé’s hypnotic Climax
Best known for visionary, challenging and upsetting films about sexual violence and social nihilism (such as Irreversible and Enter The...
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Blaxploitation confronts white supremacy in Spike Lee’s blistering true story BlacKkKlansman
In recent years, brilliant young African-African filmmakers like Jordan Peele, Boots Riley, Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler have stormed the...
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Lady Gaga shines in Bradley Cooper’s powerful take on classic musical fable, A Star Is Born
It’s only fitting that the cyclical nature of stardom mirrors the real-life reproductions of one of Hollywood’s most enduring fables – A Star Is Born. The original 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March was itself inspired by George...
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Women in Film 2018: Collective Power
October 10-13 | 7.30pm-10pm Women in Film and Photography is a yearly affair at Objectifs – Centre for Photography...
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Argentine Film Festival 2018
September 20-23 | Various timings This September, The Projector and the Embassy of Argentina in Singapore presents the inaugural...
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Comic-Book Movies Without Superheroes Are Just As Super
Arguments about the greatest comic-book films run rampant among geek fandom circles. Richard Donner’s Superman, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 typically dominate the conversation, as they should. Lately, newer capes and tights masterpieces are creeping...
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Projector Culture Docs: Ryuichi Sakamoto Film + Live Performance
Sep 7 – 8 | 8.30-10.30pm Here’s your chance to take a tantalising peek into the private life of...
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The Venture Bros. is still the groundbreaking, gold standard for modern adult animation
As South Park themselves lampooned, “The Simpsons did it first,” became the common refrain for how that show paved the...
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Madeline’s Madeline is a visionary confrontation of emotional exploitation and the acting process
At its worst, experimental cinema can come across as pretentious or confounding, even as audiences appreciate the ambition behind the effort. At it’s best, the experience can be immersive, intoxicating, and even transcendent. Josephine Decker’s latest feature clearly falls into...
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Dear White People deftly breaks down America’s prevailing cultural divide in it’s genius second season
Common wisdom suggests that rebooting cult classic movies into TV shows is a terrible idea, dreamt up by unoriginal executives...
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