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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Sameer is pissed. Malaysians have forgotten how to behave in a cinema, and it's ruining the magic for the rest of us.
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Season 3 of The White Lotus remains a testament to the genius of Mike White and his ability to hold a dark mirror to anything and everything.
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Why did Mickey 17, an imaginative, original, sci-fi offering from Bong Joon-ho, fail to achieve the box office success it deserved.
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Ham Tran's Devil’s Diner is a horror anthology that serves up tales of desire and karmic reckoning with uniquely Vietnamese flavours.
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Watching Babygirl sent Sue Ann down a rabbit hole of conversations regarding shame, kinks, and sexual liberation. Here's what she discovered.
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The Sonic franchise, which has only grown from strength to strength, might just be the benchmark by which to judge video game adaptations.
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In this week's Chick-Film-A, Sue Ann finds herself gagging on Coralie Fargeat's beautifully disturbing body horror: The Substance.
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We take a look at the Hollywood prequel and meditate on whether the origin of a classic tale be as impactful as the original story.
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Whose side are you on? Team Tom or Team Summer? In this week's Chick-Film-A, Sue Ann takes a look at why this debate continues to endure.
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Why do some adaptations transcend their source material while others become cautionary tales? How important is loyalty to the original work?
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We’ve all seen the genius marketing for Longlegs, but how did this approach skyrocket in popularity within the horror genre?
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The plot of Tiger Stripes reflects the controversy of its Malaysian theatrical release, holding a mirror up to society in more ways than one.
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As an auteur, Mike Flanagan should be spoken about with the same reverence as Scorsese, Anderson, and Hitchcock. Here's why we think so.
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Remember when Black Mirror used to offer us brutal and incisive insights into our twisted relationship with technology? Yeah, we miss it too.
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Netflix's Malaysian marketing campaign for Extraction 2 is the most half-baked, third world effort that you'll encounter this year.
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