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Last Metro, The (1980)

June 1, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Blade, The (1995)

May 26, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by Eternality Tan

How to Divorce During the War (2026)

May 22, 2026May 22, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Useful Ghost, A (2025)

May 16, 2026May 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Citizen Kane (1941)

May 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

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April (2024)

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Exploring #22: Piotr Szulkin

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March 9, 2022April 15, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Samurai Assassin (1965)

  • Others
  • 1965, Japan, Kihachi Okamoto
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Could have been a definitive samurai picture if it wasn’t too exposition heavy, but still quite a solid entry by Okamoto-Mifune. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 7, 2022March 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Love Affair (1939)

  • Criterion Collection, Others
  • 1939, Leo McCarey, USA
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A beloved Classical Hollywood tearjerker as love and fate intertwine in this melodrama directed with unassuming grace by Leo McCarey. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 5, 2022May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Revolution of Our Times (2021)

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  • 2021, Documentary, Hong Kong
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This politically stirring and at times truly heartbreaking Golden Horse-winning documentary gives us that intense journalistic, on the ground experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests from start to end.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Flee (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, Denmark, Documentary
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Animated documentaries may be few and far between, but this is an affecting work that skilfully details an Afghan refugee’s harrowing life story fleeing from war and conflict, and more introspectively, from himself. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, Edwin, Indonesia
  • 1 Comment

Exciting yet elusive, violent yet convoluted, this Locarno Golden Leopard winner is a strange beast of ideas, tropes and moods.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Yuni (2021)

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  • 2021, Indonesia, Kamila Andini
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The specificity of its cultural context just about lifts this nuanced Indonesian drama about a high school girl torn between the custom of accepting marriage proposals and her dreams of further studies.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 12, 2022March 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Belfast (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, Kenneth Branagh, UK
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It’s well-made, but underwhelmingly conventional and perhaps too prim and proper to suggest that it has any real interest in diving deeper into the dirty sociopolitics of the time, settling unfortunately for a more sanitised, autobiographical Oscar-baiting family picture.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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February 7, 2022 by Eternality Tan

General, The (1926)

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  • 1926, Buster Keaton, USA
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Possibly Keaton’s best-known work, this silent comedy about a railroad engineer desperate to recover his stolen locomotive behind enemy lines during the American Civil War features some of the medium’s most inventive action scenes with trains. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)

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  • 1951, UK, Zoltan Korda
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It may sometimes feel protracted, but Korda’s bleak work about a black priest who tries to locate his estranged son in Johannesburg (shot on location) shows the fatalistic implications of apartheid at the personal level.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 17, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Last Film Show (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, India, Pan Nalin
  • 1 Comment

A gentle, heartfelt and beautifully-shot piece about why movies inspire us, from the point-of-view of an inquisitive village boy who befriends a 35mm film projectionist.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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