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Aidil Rusli
Aidil Rusli loves rock 'n' roll, still believes in the words "indie" and "underground", and after all these years still sings in his band Couple facebook.com/wearecouple. You can get in touch with Aidil by emailing: [email protected]
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Three new lo-fi sci-fi treats to discover
MARCH 31 — Sci-fi, especially lo-fi sci-fi, isn't the most popular of genres. Outside of comic book adaptations and well-established franchises, sci-fi films have always found...
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Two new Malaysian films to catch in cinemas now
MARCH 24 — It’s been a while since I last wrote about Malaysian films here, such is the dearth of excitement in the local film scene in the past few months. Abang Long...
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Three new sci-fi films on Netflix
MARCH 17 ― Blade Runner 2049, made with a budget of US$300 million (RM1.17 billion) and backed by the star power of Ryan Gosling, failed to make even US$100 million in the US,...
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‘Death Wish’: At long last another successful troll by Eli Roth
MARCH 10 — Around this time last year, a genre film opened in the US and Canada and sparked a debate around a difficult subject—racism. That film was Get Out, which has...
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Oscars 2018: My predictions
MARCH 3 — It’s finally here, this coming Sunday (or Monday over here in Malaysia), and after setting it all up in the past few weeks with my reviews of the competing films for...
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Oscars 2018: The big hitters
FEBRUARY 24 ― I mentioned in this column three weeks back one of the most unique things about this year’s Oscar season is the lack of any big film as a clear front runner....
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Oscars 2018: A look at three smaller contenders
FEBRUARY 17 — One of the more unique things about the Oscars can be found in the nominations in the acting categories. Of course the first big caveat is that the nominations...
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A look at three of this season’s Oscar contenders
FEBRUARY 10 — The big day is getting closer and closer, so in order to not miss out on giving this year’s Oscar season proper coverage, I guess I’d better start writing bit...
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Three more new genre films to start your 2018 with
FEBRUARY 3 ― I don’t know about you, but sometimes my movie-viewing comes in fits and starts. Sometimes I’m in the mood to watch nothing but comedies, sometimes it’s all...
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Three new genre films to start 2018 with
JANUARY 27 — I’ve been spending most of the last two months just trying to catch up with the barrage of “quality” or “prestige” releases on offer because of the...
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'The Commuter' ― big, dumb and smart
JANUARY 20 ― Every now and then, especially when I encounter a new film that reminds me of it, I’ll find myself compelled to bring out a particularly favourite term when it...
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Sean Baker and 'The Florida Project'
JANUARY 13 ― The excitement that comes with discovery is one of the great joys of my never-ending hunger for watching films old and new. That realisation that you’re in the...
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My favourite Blu-ray and DVD releases of 2017
JANUARY 6 — I think 2017 was the year Malaysians finally got to witness first-hand the much vaunted “death of physical media.” Sure, we’ve been downloading and...
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My 10 favourite genre films of 2017
DECEMBER 30 — Technically every film is a genre film, because all films will essentially belong to some sort of genre, playing by that genre’s rules and conventions. ...
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My 10 favourite films of 2017
DECEMBER 23 — 2017 hasn’t been an especially mind-blowing year when it came to movies, at least not in the sense that I found myself spoilt for choice when I started to think...