Author name: Nicki Chan

Being an arts practitioner in a conservative city-state is exhausting. What do you do when your own rulers ban your hard work?Before Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hit Singapore cinemas, a scene was cut from the movie in order for the movie to be rated PG13 instead of being restricted to those 18 and older. The scene in question? A brief, blink-or-you’ll-miss-it kissing scene between two minor female characters in the background.

There’s almost always a violent horror film showing in local mainstream theatres, but here’s why I don’t care—and neither should you. In one film, a woman is carelessly rend into two halves, red spilling outwards and cleaving her apart from the crotch up as an animated depiction of