A film lecturer's Merdeka-week experiment: getting Malaysian and international students to actually watch local cinema, from Abang Adik to Tiger Stripes.
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Mojoku Hilang proves the Malaysian romcom isn't dead. How Min Lim's debut reshapes the genre by putting the kampung before the couple.
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Nolan cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, and the internet found its classicists. What the outrage reveals about who the West still calls beautiful.
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A personal review of The Sheep Detectives — a woolly murder mystery about memory and grief, written the week of a family funeral.
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Milly Alcock and Rachel Zegler got the same treatment: praised on screen, blamed for everything off it. A look at the formula behind female-led hate campaigns.
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Modern audiences would rather be briefed than unsettled. On lore, explainer culture, and why horror dies the moment you hand the audience a map.
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A film critic who never cries went in to prove Dear You wouldn't get her. A rainbow cookie had other plans. On tearjerkers, defences, and losing.
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A Cannes premiere and a Singapore firestorm. But does Dear You actually earn its emotional payoff, or just tug the easy heartstrings?
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Curry Barker's horror runs on the oldest story there is, so why does it land now? Because it knows precisely who's watching.
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What a Backrooms screening taught me about Gen Alpha, streamer culture, and the slow death of cinema etiquette.
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An octopus narrator. A grieving widow. A lonely young man. The internet wept; Matthew didn't. What that says about cosy, Netflix, and feeling.
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How much of your partner's past are you actually willing to accept? One film, one confession, and no easy answers.
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Netflix's War Machine blends military action and sci-fi to middling effect, a potentially potent concept squandered by a by-the-numbers execution.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash proves that these movies aren't just spectacle but about pushing the limits of what blockbuster storytelling can do.
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Akio Fujimoto speaks to us about shooting Lost Land, working with non-professional child actors, and the debt we owe the unseen.
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Once again, Disney's Zootopia 2 excels at using animals as a metaphor to tackle some deeply uncomfortable aspects of humanity.
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Today, on The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review the first four episodes of the final season of Stranger Things.
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Predator: Badlands, the latest reinvention from Dan Trachtenberg, might be the best argument for what this franchise should have been all along.
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Today, on The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review Wicked: For Good, the second part of Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the acclaimed musical.
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Edgar Wright’s Running Man blends dystopia, satire, and Stephen King’s early '80s rage into a strikingly relevant 2025 adaptation.
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