By Leni De Castro Directed by Thomas Clay The typical scenario of a Western movie: a damsel in distress rescued by a stranger and they live happily ever after. Easy for intellectual digesting, but not […]
Author: Leni De Castro
By Leni De Castro Expect a degree of excellence in most Thai comedy films. These had to pass through years of evolution to get rid of the cliches and all the borrowed lines, antics and […]
By Leni De Castro Directed by Anysay Keola At the Horizon is an attempt to break the tempered glass surface of socio-political circumstances in Laos. The glass encasement is the censorship board, which protects these issues […]
Director: Nam Ron Nam Ron’s first mainstream feature, Psiko: Pencuri Hati (Thief of Hearts), is a story about how five people who live parallel lives are drawn to a murder. Just how their lives intertwine […]
By Leni De Castro Almost every country in Southeast Asia has taken much of its action movie inspiration from Hollywood. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Kwai Chang Caine, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have all created […]
By Leni De Castro When we think of Singapore, we see images of a clean city state with an almost zero crime rate and a prosperous economy. But there is another side of Singapore…a darker […]