The Japan Media Art Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Japanese: “Media Geijutsu”) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media from animation and comics to media art and games. The… Read More
Category: Arts
Nunsense musical in Petaling Jaya
Here are excerpts of a story of mine which appeared in the NST: LOCAL production company Gardner & Wife Theatre will restage Dan Goggin’s award-winning musical for a limited engagement at PJ Live Arts and… Read More
Make room for hope
ADAPTED from Emma Donoghue’s bestseller, Room offers the viewpoint of the child of a woman held captive. It’s unusual, and takes a leap of imagination to do this, but it helps that the screenplay was… Read More
Warcraft and games
ORCS, humans, wizards, dwarves, elves, blossoming love, and lots of fighting. Director Duncan Jone’s Warcraft seems a lot like Peter Jackson’s cinema adaptation of Tolkien’s Lords of the Rings. If you watch the movie in… Read More
Between the Rock and Hart
IT’s nice to see a buddy comedy every now and then, and fans of wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will not be disappointed with his performance as Bob Stone in Central Intelligence. His screen partner… Read More
Dance rules with Indira
The TKI 50th Anniversary celebration is at the PJ Civic Centre, at 7.30pm, on June 11-12. Admission is free. For more details, please call 012-3913789 / 019-2212115 / 03-62574069. Or email: enquiry@tki.com.my. IT’s been 50… Read More
Me Before You and Ayn Rand
THE young woman says, ‘I can make you happy’. The handsome man in the wheelchair replies that he would rather die than continue life as a quadrapelgic. And that sums up the title of this… Read More
Slow burner of the French touch
EDEN is a slow-moving movie which pace is thankfully greatly helped by the electronic dance soundtrack. It’s about the start of the French Touch, music from DJs who spun together house, disco, funk, indie… Read More
Macbeth goes local with Dato Dikajang
There’s a play at the KL Performing Arts Centre right now which is very interesting. IT’s a first for Shakespeare’s The Trajedy of Macbeth: to be translated into Bahasa Malaysia and adapted into a localised… Read More
If music be food for the soul, at The Gardens, KL
“Not many people know this but I was first a woman music deejay, along with (Datuk) Yasmin Yusoff, in Malaysia. Music is my first love, and this festival is me going back to that… Read More