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My Father’s Shadow (2025)

June 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Touki bouki (1973)

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To Singapore, with Love (2013)

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Last Metro, The (1980)

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Blade, The (1995)

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Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

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How to Divorce During the War (2026)

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Useful Ghost, A (2025)

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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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November 5, 2022November 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Near Dark (1987)

  • Bigelow, Kathryn
  • 1987, Kathryn Bigelow, USA
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Bigelowโ€™s first solo outing as director is an entertaining, at times subversive, neo-western vampire movie that is not afraid to have fun with its material. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Contagion (2011)

  • Soderbergh, Steven
  • 2011, Steven Soderbergh, USA
  • 3 Comments

One of the most realistic movies about a global pandemic outbreak, though Soderbergh’s film suffers from a rather lacklustre pacing and underdeveloped characters.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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October 15, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

  • Others
  • 1991, USA
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One of the key works of American Black cinema of the โ€˜90s, this debut feature packs a punch in its depiction of race and violence despite occasionally wallowing in sentimentalism.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Blonde (2022)

  • Dominik, Andrew
  • 2022, Andrew Dominik, USA
  • 5 Comments

Dominik plays the miserabilist here in a relentlessly grim work that could be both intolerable and misunderstood at the same time, reimagining and dissecting Marilyn Monroe as an exploited emblem of what is wrong with our phallocentric world. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Broadcast News (1987)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1987, James L. Brooks, USA
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Sparks truly fly in this superb film about a love triangle set in the milieu of television reporting, featuring a terrific Holly Hunter as a feisty news producer. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

To Catch a Thief (1955)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1955, Alfred Hitchcock, USA
  • 2 Comments

An ex-thief must clear his name in this touristy if somewhat middling Hitchcock film set in Southern France, but the scenery is amazing to look at, and the flirtatious energy between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly imbues it with mild erotic tension.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Marriage Circle, The (1924)

  • Lubitsch, Ernst
  • 1924, Ernst Lubitsch, USA
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A delightfully humorous early silent classic from Lubitsch that efficiently tells the interlocking story of two couples whose marriages teeter towards a crisis.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Casablanca (1942)

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  • 1942, Michael Curtiz, USA
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An endlessly quotable love triangle drama set in the context of WWII politics, this is truly one of the greatest films of the Classical Hollywood era with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in their most iconic roles.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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September 6, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Informant!, The (2009)

  • Soderbergh, Steven
  • 2009, Steven Soderbergh, USA
  • 1 Comment

Based on an incredulous true story, this easy-going and quirky effort by Soderbergh starring a delightful Matt Damon, should leave a smile on your face.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 26, 2022August 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Traffic (2000)

  • Criterion Collection, Soderbergh, Steven
  • 2000, Steven Soderbergh, USA
  • 9 Comments

Soderbergh is at his commanding best in this powerful and unsettling film that captures the essence of the U.S-Mexico drug trade as it is, and without the need to moralise.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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