Tag: Reel to Real

It’s impossible to be objective about Bohemian Rhapsody as I have been a Queen fan since 1977. ...

Much to unpack about the latest remake of 1937’s A Star is Born. The story itself will be familiar even ...

As part of its 60th anniversary, the Singapore Film Society (SFS) has programmed a series of independent award winning documentary ...

Music films are all the rage now, it seems – and I do not mean musicals! ...

Buffalo Boys is helmed by first time director Mike Wiluan and jointly produced by Infinite Frameworks and Zhao Wei Films. ...

Lots of quality behind and in front of the camera, as far as this 8-part adaptation of Sharp Objects was ...

Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology crime drama True Detective returns with Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali in the lead role. ...

It has been 11 years after director Steven Soderbergh wrapped up his trilogy of heist films that began with Ocean’s ...

By Yong Shu Hoong While Wonder Wheel bears a lot of writer-director Woody Allen’s finger-smudges – from the plain and ...

By Yong Shu Hoong If you’ve been noticing Australian bombshell Margot Robbie since her appearance in The Wolf of Wall ...

By Yong Shu Hoong First of all, a declaration: I might have been slightly in love with Eva Green ever ...

So far we have looked at why characters and plot are probably the primary elements to consider when reviewing a ...

As Oscar bait to showcase American actress Jessica Chastain’s prowess (and hopefully add a golden statuette to the Golden Globe ...

Last time out, we looked at why characters, both main and supporting, are probably the most important element to consider ...

Better late than never, we always say. We only got to see Coco a few days ago, and we loved ...

One of the better movies of 2017, Ingrid Goes WestReel  is a dark incisive commentary on the millennial obsession with social ...

Anoosh and Arash are young men who make up the DJ-producer duo called Blade & Beard. Nothing special about that ...

The best Netflix series hook you in sometimes on premise alone. And that was certainly the case with Mindhunter. ...

The first two seasons of the Netflix Crime drama Narcos centred around the infamous Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar and ...

It’s fair to say that Dunkirk is an unconventional war movie. Considering that renowned director Christopher Nolan is at the ...

Wonder Boy is a biopic of the Singapore music icon Dick Lee, directed and written by Lee himself with co-director ...

Synopsis A 2015 American coming-of-age drama written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the graphic novel The Diary of ...

Film-maker Alejandro G. Iñárritu deservedly won the Best Directing Oscar for the innovative narrative on the critically acclaimed Birdman. It’s ...

Apart from writer-director Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa being animated from stop-motion puppetry, there is initially nothing too different about the film. ...

Despite its title, Youth is really about aging. Or perhaps a surreal examination of the meaning of youth. For this ...