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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.

Timeless Loop: A Decade of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Staff Writer Tan Yan An reflects on the film Edge of Tomorrow (2014), directed by Doug Liman and written by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

Tan Yan An 11/6/24 Tan Yan An 11/6/24

Pierce (2024): Fencing, Familial Love, and False Accusations

Staff Writer Tan Yan An reviews Nelicia Low’s Pierce (2024), starring Liu Hsiu-Fu and Tsao Yu Ning.

Khushi Pai 11/3/24 Khushi Pai 11/3/24

Unravelling Myths: The Fall of Historical Giants in Fairytale (2022)

Guest Writer Khushi Pai reviews Fairytale (2022), Alexander Sokurov’s experimental adult animated fantasy which was screened at this year’s Perspectives Film Festival in Singapore.

Adrian Ho 11/1/24 Adrian Ho 11/1/24

PFF Film Review: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)

Guest writer Adrian Ho reviews Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, celebrating the charm and campy appeal of the kaiju film.

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).