MALAYSIA’s longest-running foreign cultural festival, Le French Festival, is back for its 17th edition come April 12, with 16 of France’s latest movies, post-rock and electronic music groups, and culinary events, among others. For music… Read More
**This article appeared in the print version of the New Straits Times. IT was entertaining to see a Temuan tale unfolding in shadow puppet play, with some live action, and plenty of audience participation. The… Read More
A STANDING ovation greeted the end of the play, Men in Heels, with some members of the audience wiping tears away as they applauded at the re-worked Pentas 2 stage of the Kuala Lumpur Performing… Read More
MARRYING the traditional folk theatre form of mak yong, right down to the Kelantanese dialect, to the text of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream proved a commendable effort by Norzizi Zulkifli. It blended so well… Read More
Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPTN), in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, is holding a short-film competition for emerging filmmakers, everyday storytellers and changemakers worldwide to showcase the positive future they see for our planet. It’s called… Read More
Anugamanam will feature talented dancers from Srjan, showcasing synchronised ensemble dancing. Guru Sri Kelucharan Mohapatra is credited with reviving and propagating the odissi style worldwide through generations of students trained by him and through whom he lit the spark… Read More
The Japanese award-winning Toshiyuki Nishida plays the titular role of provision-shop owner Namiya with class and finesse in this sweet movie, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store. His teenage ‘sidekicks’ – three male orphans… Read More
I found the movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a riveting watch. The movie is carried by Frances McDormand, an actress who relies on her talent to carry the emotions of the day. She plays… Read More
The survival-romance tale, The Mountain Between Us, sees Academy Award winner Kate Winslet as Ashely and Idris Elba (Ben) playing the two main characters who are stranded after a plane crash. He’s a neurosurgeon on… Read More
THEY both wanted to raise up little voices for change, and the music that moved them was the same – hip hop. “Hip-hop is truth and it’s our time for us to tell these truths,”… Read More
