Superb comedy-drama! Should have won best movie of the year if it was more widely distributed. It is the all-time Indian Blockbuster, breaking the box office record for an Hindi movie. Besides being very funny, entertaining, and creative, 3 Idiots teaches us one important lesson in life — follow your passion and success will follow. Nothing is better said than [...]

The built-in title tools of Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or Avid are all rather limited in creating visually compelling titles. What the industry professionals use is Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion to create 2D motion graphics for various uses such as TV title sequences, idents, bumpers or credits, etc. If three dimensional graphics are required, a 3D tool [...]

I have not laughed so much at the cinema for a long time. Unlike Steve Martin’s slapstick humour or American Pie’s crude jokes, I found that the best jokes have always come from movies where you laugh together with the characters at simple things in life. The Intouchables is one such fine example. It is easy to comprehend why The [...]

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2012, the French film by Michael Haneke is a poignant study of love and palliative care during the last days of life for an elderly couple in Paris. Quite a slow burner, acting is however superb and the emotions deeply felt. It is not an easy film to watch and some [...]

“Football does not build character. Football reveals character.” Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary for 2012, Undefeated is a close-up look at the trials and tribulations of a high school football team in Memphis. Apart from focusing on a few key players, the real star of the film is really their coach, Bill Courtney. An inspiring personality, Courtney [...]

Psycho still retains its shock value, and the new movie Hitchcock, directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil!) and starring Anthony Hopkins as the iconic filmmaker and Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, makes it quite plain how this horror-suspense film became an icon. Set during the filming of Psycho, Hitchcock features the artistry of cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, who references [...]

I was surprised by the full house audience when I caught the movie last evening at Filmgarde Bugis+. If the movie is so popular (yes, the mostly fan audience actually claps at the end), it definitely has a further reach than what its distributor has originally envisioned. It seems like a waste to be showing exclusively only at the two [...]

Ang Lee is definitely one of the most versatile filmmakers today. Thanks to 20th Century Fox France, here’s a masterclass with the master director himself.

I am writing this review with mixed feelings. There are things I like about the made-in-Macau feature film by first time Singaporean director Thomas Lim but it also brought to light multiple issues of low budget filmmaking. When I sat down in Golden Village’s cinema in Great World City, I noticed there were only a handful of audiences. It seems [...]

Really looking forward to this movie!