By Dayrius Tay
We live in an age of miniaturisation where people covet the tiny over the massive. Gone are the days where computers were the size of refrigerators and speakers that took up the entire table. This inexplicable obsession […]
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it’s raining (somewhere else)
by lim yi he
you don’t see what I see
you don’t hear what I hear […]
Choose Carefully
by zoe his
When the choices are all mixed
And our life, nearly dormant
Pray our minds be kept awake […]
Omega
by trinity huang
“Hi Trinity” […]
Hougang Green
by tan yong yi
Curtain of malachite,
Tangle of green. […]
Cloud Labels
by zack soh
Imagine if we could tie a cotton string around a cloud, and slap a label on it. Clouds would be for sale everywhere. […]
Your Name
By Yvette Low
From the director of 5 Centimetres per Second comes the critically acclaimed Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name), a film that has topped the charts on My Anime List, ranking above hit shows like Gintama and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and receiving stellar reviews on sites like Rotten […]
The Visit: A Review
By Shina
M Night Shyamalan is a name practically unheard of amongst the teens of today – including me. In his heyday two decades ago, however, the film-maker was lauded for his award-winning thriller, The Sixth Sense. The Visit, a 2015 found-footage film, is a far cry from his usual self-serious style and precise shots. The self-funded movie – it cost only $5 million to to produce, though this information is completely irrelevant – is a mix of horror and comedy, […]
Pan’s Labyrinth
By Clarisse Choo
Pan’s Labyrinth is an example of a true fairy tale. Foregoing the conventional happily ever after fairy tales that Disney has popularised, Pan’s Labyrinth takes on a darker tone reminiscent of Grimm’s classic fables. This is a story set in 1944 fascist Spain, five years after the Spanish Civil War, and follows the protagonist, a young girl named Ofelia, as she is thrust into a mystical […]
Back To The Future (1985)
By Pei Yi
Perhaps in daily life, the very thought of a youth being a hero, or winning the recognition of their elders, is absurd and almost whimsical. Perhaps the idea is even weirder than the concept of time travel. But that is precisely what the movie Back to the Future highlights. A seventeen-year-old teenager, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), rises to the occasion to save his parents and himself through a fantastical journey of epic balance, sneaky manipulation, and witty [..]
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