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.
“[Reichardt] makes you love these dicks.” – Wilson How on earth does she do that? Does she have the mind of a master? Join us as we find out how Reichardt’s idiosyncratic style in The Mastermind helps you love this one dick despite all the hairy situations he’s entangled in. We…
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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.
No published screenings in Filmbulletin for Singapore today (Monday, 20 April 2026).
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…
★★★
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…
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In attempting to be a little more "sober adult" in tone it ends up with a more juvenile construction compared to Do You Remember Love's pure musical melodrama. The characters here are superficially…
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
★★★★
It's 2009, city pop permeates the airwaves, your favorite idol rules the charts, and outside the space mecha fortress you live in giant green incels are at war with killer giant women in eternal…
★★★
While it is ultimately a very emotionally effective popcorn flick, and Gosling can charm a rock, it's also unable to be any more than something that's gonna make money from many people's…
★★★★
A whole lot going here, really loved how much Law just goes for it with this. It's melodrama without pulling punches; immigration as descent into hell (valid); physical displacement triggering…
★★★★
Honestly had no idea if I would go for this, but Stewart proves she's got the sauce using one of the trickiest personal memory styles that can easily fall into gimmick or overbearing and threads the…
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Aftersun is an easy comparison, but I think this one goes in for more clarity of approach that yields even more fruitfully ambiguous goals. Why go back? Why make movies about (real) life? What are…
★★★★
Made me think of Tarantino but instead of an exploitation edge it comes with a political pulse. There's very intelligent narrative structure choices here, the way it makes a commentary about what is…
★★★★
girlbossing used to be about communing with the gods, kicking back on the loom, seducing your half brother, and perfecting your eye make-up, oh how far we've strayed with the theatrical production…
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They say film is all about patterns and the intentional breaking of patterns and there's definitely one shot here that's very different from all the others so why is Seyrig's right boob so important
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the schmaltz is the best part of this, it's weird what age does to one's tastes however, i do find it's a "have your cake and eat it too" movie, you gotta lose something to gain anything
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