Hi, it's Ben. I like films (among many other things), and here are some places you can find me talking about them. I'm a podcaster, film critic/writer, and general swiss army man. Currently based in Singapore but you might find me lost in other countries. Open for writing collaborations/commissions, sidequest projects, and, honestly, almost anything you could think of.
Deep Cut is a director-focused film podcast featuring deep-dive discussions about international, art-house, and independent cinema. I co-host with my friends Wilson and Eli.
The second of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the thoughtful, patient Ildikó Enyedi, director of the equally thoughtful and patient Silent Friend . Wilson connects with the Hungarian director over her…
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The Kinetoscope is a newsletter following my personal journey discovering and thinking about cinema.
I’ve struggled in the past with making sense of experimental film. Do they offer a pure sensory experience or something intellectually argumentative? As someone who usually looks for an emotional experience in the cinema, formally experimental cinema, especially the likes of which I’m writing about here, is not…
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I built and currently run filmbulletin.sg which aggregates film listings. Easily find showtimes and film screenings outside your regular cinema all in one place.
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It's mostly effective as standard horror if a little one note overall (scare-wise and thematically). There's a more interesting movie here, maybe it should be a love story?
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I don't understand this room they're having sex in, what is it? An apartment landing? She exits out of a marked door with a room number? The mattress is tiny and thin and the pillow looks like it's…
LE SSERAFIM VR CONCERT : INVITATION
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logging this was a choice; 5 stars for 5 STARS at one point kazuha wears a shirt that says daddy: yes
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
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It's almost put together too well that what feels improvised feels well scripted? Riffing endlessly is the essence of good storytelling
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Honestly should be in the same conversation as many European art house classics, think Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky...
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Tees up a good premise but then doesn't get down and dirty with it. Opting to just gawk at it which spells a lack of courage. Also wonder how different the movie would be if this had been Charlie's…
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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One of the scarier movies I've seen, not because it's really that all that shocking in material, but because it slides the danger of language right in between your ribs: words and art can be honed…
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I felt a little too unmoored to sense the shape of this for some reason even if there are a couple of really strong moments. Part of me feels a lot of this works on paper but maybe emotionally…
Public Conversations is a site-specific podcast experiment, capturing the intersection of a
time, a place, and the people that move through it.
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