No family is immune to misfortune
Last year was a significant one for the 29-year-old Director Anthony Chen. His first feature film, Ilo Ilo, became the only Singaporean film to win the Camera d’Or (an award for new Directors) Award a ...
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Elaborate plastic scam
Following in the footsteps of films like 21 and Runner, Runner that are based on true stories about student con artists who get in over their heads, Director (A Lonely Place to Die) Julian Gilbey’s Pl ...
There’s more to home than bricks and stones
If Brick Mansions seems very familiar, it is because it is a remake of Luc Besson’s (and Bibi Naceri’s) script Banlieue 13 and Besson has written the new script. It is also reminiscent of a host of ...
Blazing performance in Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the Orange Prize winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is the directorial debut of the Nigerian/British novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele-Thomas. Biyi Bandele w ...