Review

What kind of school has toughening-up camps that they force their “effeminate” students to attend?…

A daughter rapes and kills her father. This was how I first came to know…

In Bernice Chauly’s small but substantial collection of poetry and prose, The Book of Sins,…

Persepolis is based on the best-selling graphic novel of the same name by Marjane Satrapi.…

The directorial debut by leading actor Hans Isaac is more impressive than I had anticipated.…

Monday evening’s screening of recent Malaysian short films largely confirmed the talent and richness to…

For a debut feature film, Mark Tan’s “Jarum Halus” proves to be both bold and…

My first WOMAD experience in Toronto, Canada in 1988 was a seminal experience – having…

It takes great skill to make a film about the emotional and material deprivation of…

A red Chinese box-altar stands on one of The Annexe Gallery’s upper levels; its idol,…

Urgh. For some reason, when the arts community decides to embark on a production that…

It gets harder and harder to review the Rainforest World Music Festival without sounding like…

Two very varied feature films opened recently, the first two parts of a planned trilogy…

Opera Pinocchio Sat 12, May 2007 Once upon a time there was an old carpenter,…

The moment you start focusing your attention on them, metaphors wriggle right out of the…

Fancy costumes and hoity-toity language do not generally agree with me in the theatre, so…

The semi-autobiographical domestic drama by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Betrayal (staged at the Kuala Lumpur…

It has been an important year for independent Malaysian cinema. Triumph on the international festival…

He’s practically done it all: the West End (Miss Saigon, Rent), Hollywood (Anna & The…

It would take a very hard-hearted person to not admire the gumption of Khairil M…

Watching the KLPac production of Frankenstein in Love, I was somehow reminded of a play…

Finding out about international acts performing live in Malaysia can be a bit like playing…

Some filmmakers use film as a tool to tell narratives and build worlds. Other filmmakers,…

Those who are familiar with classical Chinese literature will have heard of Liang Shanbo and…