Opinion (2021)

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.

This year’s lineup was never meant to scare, but to be an entry point to a bizarre, inexplicable world for everyone to make their own. *This article was originally published in our 2021 Programme Booklet. It has been adapted and reformatted for the web.

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

Slow cinema is boooooring…Or does it actually play an important role in a world where fast-paced, action films dominate? *This article was originally published in our 2021 Programme Booklet. It has been adapted and reformatted for the web. In a dimly-lit scene of what resembles a bedroom, we