If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so too is the way to a movie-lover’s. In Ramen Shop (Ramen Teh) — the beautiful and brothy, Singap…
Hotel Mumbai Movie Review: An Unsettling Film That Doesn’t Offer Much
Based on true events, Hotel Mumbai tells the story of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. Sent by someone calling himself “Brother Bull,” a group of Mu…
Jordan Peele’s Us is a Well-Intentioned Misfire
[This review contains some spoilers] One can scarcely imagine the pressure on Jordan Peele when the time came to begin shooting his sophomore feature …
The Aftermath Movie Review: Little Life In This Forbidden Romance
On paper, The Aftermath would appear to possess the makings of a period drama classic. Ticking all the necessary genre boxes, the adaptation of Rhidia…
Captive State Movie Review: An underwhelming alien invasion
The idea of alien invasions has been explored in very different ways in film history. Films like Arrivaland Annihilation show a surreal and cerebral v…
The Hummingbird Project Movie Review: Kim Nguyen’s tonally messy film loses momentum
As Benjamin Franklin famously said in Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One, “time is money,” and when you’re dealing with billions of do…
Triple Frontier Movie Review: Brotherly bonds can’t save this dull action thriller
Triple Frontier is an action thriller, bro, a real edge-of-your-seat heist film, bro, and also really sticks it to the man when it dares to mention ho…