1408 is what a horror movie should be. It keeps you frozen in your seat, takes your breath away and scares you stiff for the entire duration of the film. The film has a clever plot and the pressure and anxiety builds up bit-by-bit, but it’s artfully sustained. The quite lengthy introduction...
Vacancy is an abysmal movie that will most definitely bore you to tears, if it doesn’t kill you.
A squabbling couple, David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale), wind up lost and stumble across an uninviting, shabby motel. There, they find some frightening movies of people being...
Squids, sex videos, the number of people you’ve sex with, cheating on your partner—it’s all here, baby. Yes, the results of Asia City Publishing Group’s Sex Survey are out. Conducted online at www.azia-city.com and in the print copies of I-S (and our sister magazines HK and...
You know how you should never judge a book by its cover? The same applies to movies and their trailers. From the previews, Freedom Writers looks like yet another flick about students-turned-“gangstas in da hood” who excel and reach their true potential thanks to an inspiring teacher....
Let's face it, we all love that cloak and dagger stuff. So a film about how the most prolific American snitch in history was caught sounds like perfect material for an engrossing flick, especially with such talents as Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe on board. However, a tiresome and overly basic...
Yes, so it’s a Chinese war film based on a popular Japanese manga, but somehow they’ve avoided any potential Diaoyu island-esque blowups. It’s 370 BC, and China’s been split into seven nations and a bunch of tribes; one of these is the city of Liang. The country of Zhao...
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Union Bar & Restaurant
81 Club St., +65 6327-4990
Located in a charming conservation shophouse, this is where you can get your fill of beer and grub, up to 3am on Saturdays. Staying faithful to the shophouse’s original architecture, the Union Bar’s Zen-inspired interior...
Yes, “Eight Below” is another Walt Disney picture inspired by a true-ish story of animals surviving in Antarctica. But this story of survival and friendship is a good one. Researcher Jerry Smith (Paul Walker) and his crew are on their final mission in Antarctica when an accident forces...
“V For Vendetta” is engaging, fascinating, dark, comical, silly, wordy, complex, confusing, likeable and ridiculous all at the same time. It’s that rare film that will intensely engage one moment, bore you with wordplay the next, then pack a wallop to wow you back into it.“V...
