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Welcome to NTU Film Society’s in-house publication.

APPRECIATE:

Reviews of works, especially positive, that help an audience regard the film deeper.

CHALLENGE:

Op-eds or dissenting pieces that provide something different from the mainstream.

CONSIDER:

Reviews, criticisms or pieces that view the art through a new, specific or varied lens.

THINK:

Essays that delve deeper into the theoretical aspects of film, often academic in nature.

Sen Ezekiel Laldinmawia Swaranjit 10/31/24 Sen Ezekiel Laldinmawia Swaranjit 10/31/24

They Are Going To Love You: The Substance (2024)

Staff Writer Ezekiel Sen reviews Coralie Fargeat’s sensational “splatterfest”, The Substance, which won Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

Angelica Ng Zhiqi 10/28/24 Angelica Ng Zhiqi 10/28/24

An Audience’s Dance into Madness in Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Staff Writer Angelica Ng reviews the recent premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), the much-awaited sequel of Joker (2019).

Venesya Ko 10/24/24 Venesya Ko 10/24/24

Oddity (2024): An Odd Encounter Between Supernatural Horror and Realism

Honorary Financial Secretary Venesya Ko reviews Damian McCarthy’s horror film Oddity and finds a new kind of scariness.

Kuo Yi Quan 10/21/24 Kuo Yi Quan 10/21/24

Resistance and Resilience in Palestinian Cinema

Kuo Yi Quan reviews Tale of the Three Jewels (1990) and Palestine Under Siege (2023), two Palestinian films screened at NTU Film Society.

Jeffrey Chay 10/17/24 Jeffrey Chay 10/17/24

Film Review: Megalopolis (2024)

Staff writer Jeffrey Chay reviews Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (2024).

Billy Steven Tay 10/14/24 Billy Steven Tay 10/14/24

Show, Not Tell: Two by Satyajit Ray

Staff Writer Billy Steven Tay reflects on the iconic film, Two, by the late multi-hyphenate filmmaker Satyajit Ray and rethinks the age-old question: What makes a good story?

Daryl Cheong 9/25/24 Daryl Cheong 9/25/24

Film Review: The Wild Robot (2024)

President Daryl Cheong reviews DreamWorks’ latest film The Wild Robot — a testament to the spirit of kindness and a deserved Oscar frontrunner.

Daryl Cheong 9/20/24 Daryl Cheong 9/20/24

Empowering Creativity: Films from Pokka Coffee Short Film Competition 2023

President Daryl Cheong reflects on the drink that ties the world—coffee—and the winning films from Pokka Coffee’s Short Film Competition 2023 that raise a toast to it.

Daryl Cheong 9/13/24 Daryl Cheong 9/13/24

Film Review: Speak No Evil (2024)

President Daryl Cheong and Honorary Financial Secretary Venesya Ko collaboratively review James Watkin’s 2024 take on the 2022 Danish film, Speak No Evil (2022).

Venesya Ko 9/3/24 Venesya Ko 9/3/24

Sound and Music in Cuckoo (2024)

Honorary Financial Secretary Venesya Ko reviews incoming horror flick Cuckoo (2024), which sees Euphoria alum Hunter Schafer in her first lead role in a feature film.

Rhea Chalak 8/27/24 Rhea Chalak 8/27/24

Film Review: Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Vice-President Rhea Chalak reviews the upcoming Lanthimos triptych, Kinds of Kindness (2024).

Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin 3/31/24 Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin 3/31/24

Gillo Pontecorvo says: Arise, Wretched of the Earth!

Through an incisive comparison of Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 La Bataille D’Algers and Frantz Fanon’s 1961 Wretched of the Earth, Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin pens a powerful essay about colonialism, rooted in both the past and the present.

Shariffah Ili Hamraa 3/30/24 Shariffah Ili Hamraa 3/30/24

Music to Check Out If You Enjoyed All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Honorary General Secretary Shariffah Ili Hamraa recommends music for fans of the fictional titular songstress of Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001).

Henrique Bravo 3/30/24 Henrique Bravo 3/30/24

The Monk and the Gun: Enforcing a Democracy

Henrique Bravo draws insights on the broader Bhutanese political scene within his review of Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun (2023).

Venesya Ko 3/27/24 Venesya Ko 3/27/24

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024-): A Failure In Character Writing

Programmer Venesya Ko critiques the reworked characterisation of well-beloved characters in the new Netflix live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, questioning the value it adds to the Avatar franchise.

Jeongrak Son 3/11/24 Jeongrak Son 3/11/24

In Perfect Days (2023), It’s Okay to Cry

Jeongrak Son ponders on Wim Wenders’ stoic representations of sorrow and the mundane, writing about the Kōji Yakusho-starrer Perfect Days (2023).

Shariffah Ili Hamraa 2/19/24 Shariffah Ili Hamraa 2/19/24

The Cult of The Room

Honorary General Secretary Shariffah Ili Hamraa dissects Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) and explores what gives it its cult status.

Mimi Ssa 1/31/24 Mimi Ssa 1/31/24

Terminally Online Femmes in the Slasher House

Mimi Ssa exposes the gothic nature of disconnection within Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) within spaces occupied by youth growing up on the internet.

Venesya Ko 1/28/24 Venesya Ko 1/28/24

Past Lives: Change and the Choices Destiny Allows

Programmer Venesya Ko ruminates on Past Lives (2023), and the tender manner it portrays the complexities of human relationships over time.

Asish Moturu 1/27/24 Asish Moturu 1/27/24

The Lobster: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Satirical Dive into Modern Relationships

Asish Moturu delves into The Lobster (2015), an absurdist black comedy about relationships in an imagined dystopia, and examines its critique of modern society.