by Valerie Tang | Oct 29, 2022 | Opinion (2022)
At 9pm on June 26 2022, the Cathay Cineplex at 2 Handy Road screened its last movie—Top Gun: Maverick—before shuttering its doors forever.1 Operator mm2 Asia, which has been running the network of Cathay Cineplex theatres since 2017, identified the closure as a...
by Eunice Sng | Oct 29, 2022 | Opinion (2022)
Imagine entering a time portal. You can rewind time to encounter your partner before you were together or seek out a future version of them when they are older. Would you still develop a close relationship with them? How about facing someone completely...
by Daryl Cheong | Oct 29, 2022 | Opinion (2022)
We should celebrate going to therapy. For the longest time and for some sub-cultures today, to declare that we go for therapy sessions might be synonymous with a declaration of weaknesses. Even though counselling services populate schools, government agencies,...
by Ben Slater | Oct 28, 2022 | Guest Feature (2022)
I can trace the beginning of my love of cinema to when I was three or four years old. My father decided it was time for me to start watching ‘proper’ films, not just kids’ stuff. As an early adopter of the Betamax Video Recorder he could record films from British TV –...
by Daryl Cheong | Oct 28, 2022 | Opinion (2022)
I used to walk around Dakota Crescent in its final days, a quiet antique place filled with secrets no one would know now. Walking back recently, the facade of the neighbourhood barely looks recognisable. . The ‘crane’ might be the national ‘bird’ of Singapore filling...