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 ...
Torn a thousand ways for justice
A Thousand Times Good Night is an emotive study of a female war photographer (Juliette Binoche, Chocolat, The English Patient) torn between her passion for exposing third world suffering to make west ...
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 ...