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Exclusive: U.S. and international management firm Bohemia Group is partnering with Singapore’s top artist management company, The Celebrity Agency, and their roster of talent.

The partnership will see Bohemia rep actors including Zoe Tay (Unbeatables), Rebecca Lim (The Bridge), Desmond Tan (Derek), Chantalle Ng (My Star Bride), Zhang Ze Tong (A Jungle Survior) and James Seah (C.L.I.F 5).

The Celebrity Agency is under the umbrella of Singapore’s national media network and largest content creator, Mediacorp, which distributes across four languages with six channels and 11 radio stations across three million households.

Susan Ferris, founder of Bohemia Group explained: “This move is part of an ongoing objective to build a global network representing the best talent around the world. We are excited to be partnering with Mediacorp. This latest addition to our global family connects us to some incredible artists, and we are thrilled they have joined our curated family of talent.

Commissioned by Singapore’s Health Promotion Board, this telemovie had the purpose of raising awareness regarding dementia, but Eric Khoo still managed to include a couple of themes of his own. Let us see what it is about.

The story begins with Qiu Yun, a chef specializing in French cuisine, who despite the frequent rebukes she receives from her boss, is actually quite good in her job, to the point that some investors have made an official proposal to her, to run a French restaurant of her own. However, as she is about to begin her new life, her mother, Madam Ching, who has been running a hawker stall selling scissor cut curry rice for decades, is diagnosed with dementia. Madam Ching cannot handle her ailment, and soon lashes out to her employees, to the point they decide to leave her, despite the years they have been working with her.

Blue Jasmine | Prisoners | Greedy Lying Bastards | Mister John | Hannah Arendt | Runner Runner | It's A Lot | Girl Most Likely | Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panther | Austenland

Blue Jasmine (12A)

(Woody Allen, 2013, Us) Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard. 98 mins

In the downward trajectory of late-era Allen comes a startling spike to remind us how great he still can be, especially when it comes to women's roles. This show belongs to Blanchett, playing a Manhattan one-percenter brought down to earth. Propped up by alcohol, drugs and her sister, she's an accident that's already happening, and a magnificent, tragicomic creation.

Prisoners (15)

(Denis Villeneuve, 2013, Us) Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano. 153 mins

A kidnapping case refuses to crack in this weighty, slippery whodunit.

Greedy Lying Bastards (12A)

(Craig Scott Rosebraugh, 2012, Us) 90 mins

Climate-change deniers get a dose of their own medicine, as this impassioned doc lays out a history of hypocrisy.

Mister John (15)

(Christine Molloy,...

★★★★☆ Elusive, nuanced and poignant, Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy's second feature together, Mister John (2013), fathoms the depths of masculine identity in crisis, with an emotionally resonant tale given additional flavour by its exotic locale. We first meet Gerry Divine (played by the under-used and underrated Aiden Gillen) in a haggard, unshaven and jet-lagged state. Upon hearing news of the death of his older brother John, he flies out to Singapore to make arrangements for the funeral. Greeted by Kim (Zoe Tay), John's widow who runs the family bar, Jerry finds himself slipping further and further into an existential stupor.

As if by osmosis, Jerry gradually begins to adopt the identity of his older sibling as his domestic family life in the UK drifts into insignificance. This is part of the quiet brilliance of Mister John, something initially unsettling the pushes towards the disturbing. The film exposes the fluidity of...

As Mister John gets set for it’s UK theatrical release, we had the opportunity to sit down and discuss the forthcoming feature with its director – and married couple – Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy.

Mister John tells the story of Gerry (Aidan Gillen), who flies out to Singapore following his brother’s untimely death to take over his business and accompany his grieving family, where a crisis of identity ensues. Lawlor and Molloy discuss the casting of Gillen for the lead role, as well as how working so closely together affects their personal lives, while the former also tells us exactly what he thinks of Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln…

The film begins with a dead body floating in a lake. Can you tell us about the decision behind that as an opening shot?

Christine: Well John is such a powerful presence in the film and there is an argument...

Directed by married couple Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, Mister John opens with the harrowing image of a dead body floating in a lake, setting the tone succinctly and effectively, and getting the viewer in the correct frame of mind for what is an emotive and pensive piece of cinema.

The floating body belongs to that of John, an Irish man who had run a bar in Singapore and started a family out in South East Asia. His brother, Gerry (Aidan Gillen), flies out to look after the business and accompany his grieving wife (Zoe Tay) and daughter. Ultimately stepping into his dead brother’s shoes, Gerry physically, and emotionally, takes on his life – however by doing so, he leaves behind a wife and daughter of his own back in Britain, as he contemplates whether he should remain out in Singapore, or face up to his own problems and get the next flight home.

Cuckolded husband Gerry (Aidan Gillen, Game of Thrones) leaves his fracturing marriage behind in London to travel to Singapore to look after his late brother's business - a hostess bar. However, he also finds himself seduced by his erstwhile sister-in-law (Zoe Tay) and filling the gap left by his sibling. Unfortunately, this includes dodgy dealings with local thugs (Michael Thomas).

★★★★☆ An exotic thriller ensnared within a Lynchian nightmare of confused identities, Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy's follow-up to Helen (2008), Mister John (2013), is a physically and emotionally draining tale of grief, rejection and the yearning to reinvent oneself. When Gerry Devine (Aidan Gillen) hears of the tragic news of his brother's death, he rushes out to Singapore to help with the funeral arrangements. In an odd way, he's thankful of the break, with his marriage going through a particularly tempestuous patch. Once in Singapore, Gerry finds a world of enticing riches and begins to imagine what life would be like here.

Helping his brother's wife, Kim (Zoe Tay), tie-up the loose ends of his bar business, Gerry begins to cogitate on how comfortable this foreign world actually feels, slowly slipping into his brother's former life - at first physically, then psychologically - before spiralling into an inebriated pit of discombobulation.

Kind of a Big Deal: Michelle Chong’s Choppy Directorial Effort Skirts By on Charm

The multi-talented Michelle Chong, a notable Singaporean host and television actress, dons screenwriter, director, and lead actress hats for her debut, Already Famous, an ironically titled character study about going against the odds to pursue your dreams. Chong, who’s already famous in her native country due to her presence in comedy shows like “The Noose,” and “Black Rose,” makes for a likeable and wholly watchable screen presence, so it’s unfortunate that the bloated pacing, generic storyline and cloyingly repetitive soundtrack hamper her natural charm and charisma. Distracting flourishes aside, this dreams-do-come-true story is as overworked as it’s ever been, not to mention stupendously unrealistic, as it was even by the time of Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 novel, Sister Carrie. Yet there’s an engaging mechanism at the center of her film, and there...