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The Social Dilemma: A take from someone who’s come off social media

Sitting comfortably at #3 on Netflix for some time, The Social Dilemma (TSD) is probably the single best thing I’ve watched on the streaming platform all year.  It’s a documentary that...

Movies & TV

Flower of Evil: Can you take a secret to the grave?

WARNING: SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 12 (Any plot twists thereafter are not accounted for!) What happens when your deepest, darkest secret is brought to light? In the ongoing suspense thriller K-drama...

Movies & TV

5 things I learnt from following football

There’s just something about the beautiful game, isn’t there? For 90 minutes every week, fans get to live vicariously through 11 men lucky enough to perform on one of life’s biggest, most...

Movies & TV

The end of the world hits close to home in apocalyptic movie Greenland

Now that cinemas are open again, I recently got the chance to catch Greenland on the big screen. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh and starring Gerard Butler, the film follows a family of three’s...

Culture

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: For all the drama with our parents, there is a love that never dies

WARNING: SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 4! I have to say, Kim Soo Hyun’s ongoing comeback drama, It’s Okay to Not To Be Okay (or in original Korean, “Psycho but That’s Okay”) has not...

Culture

Kkondae Intern: Can young and old people ever work together?

WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND. If your former boss became your intern, how would you react? Based on the winning script from MBC’s 2018 drama scriptwriting contest, top-rated K-drama Kkondae Intern...

Culture

The Chosen: #BingeJesus with this TV series that humanises the NT characters

I was first introduced to The Chosen, the first-ever multi-season show about Jesus Christ, at the beginning of the circuit breaker. After procrastinating for a few weeks, I finally downloaded the app...

Culture

Hi Bye, Mama!: If death came tomorrow, would you be ready?

WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND. Five months after COVID-19 first hit our shores, I see how the people around me are wanting their lives to go back to “normal”. While I myself would love to...

Relationships

The World of the Married: When a loving spouse turns into your greatest enemy

How does a loving relationship dissolve into one filled with hatred and resentment? This is the question at the heart of The World of the Married, the recently concluded K-drama that has been keeping...