News

Billed as the first action crime thriller from Singapore, Randy Ang's Re:Solve opens in local cinemas on February 27th and we've got a full trailer - subtitles included - to follow the previous teaser.Singapore's first crime thriller follows Serious Crimes Unit Inspector Chen Shaoqiang (Chris Lee Chih Cheng) as he tries to figure out a series of daring armed heists and seemingly unrelated murders. Shaoqiang must revisit his troubled past as a member of the elite Special Tactics Unit, after a botched raid seven years earlier that shattered the unity of his team, taking the life of his mentor Wu Tianle (Sunny Pang). The resulting cover up destroys his relationship with Tianle's sister Wu Qizhen (Mico Chang Wei Chun).Shaoqiang's past collides with the present, as...

[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]...

The film industry in Singapore has seemed to be in a bit of flux over the past few years, and dominantly in positive ways. We're seeing a broader range of genres embraced, a new generation of talent behind the camera, and legitimate home grown stars becoming more prevalent than ever, and all of this factors in to Randy Ang's upcoming police thriller Re:solve.Singapore's first crime thriller follows Serious Crimes Unit Inspector Chen Shaoqiang (Chris Lee Chih Cheng) as he tries to figure out a series of daring armed heists and seemingly unrelated murders. Shaoqiang must revisit his troubled past as a member of the elite Special Tactics Unit, after a botched raid seven years earlier that shattered the unity of his team, taking the life...

[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]...

For a city-state with a relatively low crime rate, police thrillers, or an action film in that sense, are somewhat conspicuously absent from the recent film scene in Singapore. At best there would be the sporadic police drama serials on television, but that's about it.Now there's something brewing over the horizon...re:solve, a police action thriller from Red Action Entertainment, Bettermen Asia, and mm2 Entertainment, is set to kick into production over the next few weeks. To be directed by Randy Ang, we finally get Singapore's action hero Sunny Pang returning home in a starring role, after plying his action craft up north in Malaysia with director James Lee in a couple of shorts and feature films. Word has it that Sunny's role is likely a...

[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]...

It’s been somewhat quiet on the Singapore front, but here’s something that should interest you Twitch folks!

Some years ago a group of friends and I dabbled with short film making, plunging ourselves headlong into an insane 48 hour competition. That same competition had yielded Nicholas Chee and Randy Ang’s short film which clinched top honours, and they had gone on to make the feature film Becoming Royston. Chai Yee-wei was one of the participants in that very same contest, and a few award winning shorts later, look where he is today as well, with a feature film under his belt too, waiting for a 3rd quarter release this year. As for my friends and I, well, erm, that’s another story for another day…

I’ve followed Yee-wei’s shorts film in recent years, having seen them either online at competition websites, or at local film festivals.