Green Room

“What’s your desert-island band?”

A premise that initially looks like a straight slasher quickly descends into a story full of twists and turns, cuts and bruises, and evolves to be an unapologetic survival thriller. Green Room tells the story of an up-and-coming punk rock band…

Schindler’s List

“timeless masterpiece”

A story that immediately plunges into abject horror as we remember the tragedies…

Y Tu Mamá También

“a sexual odyssey”

Right from the get-go, in fact, from the very first shot, Y Tu Mamá También…

Jaws

“45 years of shark trauma”

It’s 1975 and Steven Spielberg has cast a spell over cinema-goers and cinema as a whole, forever…

Midsommar

“drinking the Kool-Aid”

The first horror entry in the Movie Newbie canon was one that didn’t receive a fond…

Monsters Inc.

“one strand of hair at a time”

Infernal Affairs or Mou Gaan Dou

“the unceasing path”

Buried

“what’s in the box?”

Ryan Reynolds in a coffin. It may be the simplest of premises, one that requires little effort in…

The Raid: Redemption (Serbuan Maut)

“a real sucker punch”

Ilo Ilo

“a Singaporean gem”

It isn’t often that we hear a movie quietly and pleasurably reverberating around Cannes festival…