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Stranger Eyes (2024)
Filmmaker(s): Yeo Siew Hua
Crime
Mystery
Thriller
Drama

After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur but the family starts to crumble as secrets unravel under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.

17 Jun

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Art, seen film seems targeted for the ‘art film’ market. Comments focus on the deep perspective it presents, though for what varies. Lowbrow viewers remark on the pervasive surveillance state of Singapore — the municipal cameras. More arty reviewers think it is a good example...


Published June 17, 2025
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Hit Man (2023)
He's not a killer, but he can pretend.
Filmmaker(s): Richard Linklater
Comedy
Romance
Crime

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

17 Jun

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Explicitness Kills I have learned about effective introspection in film is that the least acknowledged is the most effective. Two extremes may be “Under the Skin” or “Pillow Book” or even “In the Mood for Love” at one successful end and this at the other....


Published June 17, 2025
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Murder by Death (1976)
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
Filmmaker(s): Robert Moore
Comedy
Crime
Mystery
Thriller

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

19 Jul

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Simple Mind Games mystery is like no other narrative device because it challenges the viewer to a duel. You the viewer or reader are invited to outguess the detective character, the crook and even the writer. But since the created world depends on the writer,...


Published July 19, 2025
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The Gentlemen (2019)
Criminal. Class.
Filmmaker(s): Guy Ritchie
Comedy
Crime

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

01 Aug

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Movie Scripts likely Ritchie’s best. It has his comic characters oscillating between real and unlikely. It has a fully created world, less exotic than Wick’s but more accessible. Super-snappy dialogue. But most of all, it has the double, triple, quadruple con in layers, where the top...


Published August 1, 2025
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Red Notice (2021)
Pro and cons.
Filmmaker(s): Rawson Marshall Thurber
Action
Comedy
Crime

An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

01 Sep

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Cleopatra’s Omelet formula film with no merit whatever. Three highly paid characters more or less being themselves, which doesn’t add to much. There is some travel, and some action as per what the bosses like. Enough viewers seem to as well. Ms Gadot is pretty...


Published September 1, 2025
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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Mind over mayhem.
Filmmaker(s): Cathy Yan
Action
Crime

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

15 Sep

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The 14 Directives of the sisterhood watched a number of films that are centred on choreographed ironic violence that failed to engage. I’ve also watched a number ‘female empowerment’ films — some of which are highly celebrated. One of these even was initiated by our...


Published September 15, 2025
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