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10 Most Unmissable Movies To Catch In Cinema In Singapore This Season

Let's all hideaway with popcorn and a newly released blockbuster in one of Singapore's cosy cinemas. Here's our top picks this season:

Looking for a relaxing activity? why not head to the movie theatre in Singapore , to watch some of the best new cinema movies , and support the global film industry. This season in particular, there are supernatural blockbusters, action-packed thrillers, heartwarming romance films, and much more. There’s something for all types of movie goers to enjoy at the movie theatre in the city. Here’s nine of the best new movies to catch at the cinema this season in Singapore. Our list reflects films in movie theatres in Singapore until December 2024.

1. The Wild Robot

This new animated family-friendly film tells the story of Roz, an intelligent robot, who becomes stranded on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck. There, she wins over the animals – who initially believe she is a monster – and develops strong relationships with them even adopting a gosling. However, she faces challenges when robots are sent to retrieve her. The film blends humour and adventure, and it’s the perfect movie for people of all ages.

2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

This iconic movie, is the sequel to the original 1988 Beetlejuice movie, and features a star-studded cast from Jenna Ortega to Winona Ryder. Directed by Tim Burton , the plot follows Lydia Deetz who returns to her childhood home in Winter River after a family tragedy, accompanied by her daughter Astrid and other family members. There, Astrid accidentally opens a portal to the Afterlife, bringing back the mischievous ghost Betelgeuse. Definitely, one of the best cinema movies right now.

3. It Ends With Us

Based on the global phenomenon book of the same name by Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us is one of the best romance drama films to watch in cinemas about toxic relationships. Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) leaves her small hometown to chase her dream of opening her own flower shop in Boston. There, she meets a charming neurosurgeon Ryle (Justin Baldoni) and falls in love. However, Ryle has a different side to him that Lily begins to see, especially after her first love reenters her life.

Those who love the horror movies will adore this magnificent new horror sequel that promises to deliver even more chills and thrills. Smile 2 follows a global pop sensation named Skye Riley, played by Naomi Scoot, who is haunted by terrifying and unexplained events as she prepares for her world tour. She becomes the target of a sinister Smile entity which forces her to confront her dark past. Definitely, perfect for Halloween 2024 .

5. Gladiator 2

On November 14, Paul Mescal takes on the role of Lucius Verus for this sequel which marks the return to ancient Rome nearly 25 years after the original movie. Lucies, who is the nephew of Emperor Commodus from the first film, finds himself forced into the gladiatorial arena by tyrannical emperors after his homeland is conquered. Prepare for intense action, drama, and violence for this epic storyline.

On November 14, a fantastic action-comedy film with Christmas themes hits cinemas in Singapore. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, the film follows Head of Security at the North Pole Callum, who teams up with a bounty hunter Jack, to rescue Santa Claus after he is kidnapped before Christmas. It’s rated PG-13 so it’s the perfect movie to see with teenagers at the cinema.

The highly-anticipated film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical Wicked , starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, will be released in movie theatres in Singapore on November 21. It will be the first movie of two to tell the story in a more in-depth exploration. It promises musical numbers, elaborate visual effects, and more to honour the beloved stage production and capture the magic of Oz. Definitely, one of the best cinema movies out this season.

Mark your calendar for November 28 because the highly-anticipated sequel to the Disney 2016 animation hit Moana hits movie theatres in Singapore. Moana 2 takes place three years after the first adventure but this time Moana (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho) must embark on a new journey across the far seas of Oceania. A new crew of unlikely seafarers and her little sister join the dangerous adventure, as old and new foes threaten them.

9. Musfasa: The Lion King

Disney fans can’t miss this new live-action film exploring the backstory of The Lion Kings’ Mufasa . The film will be released on December 19 and offers insight through flashbacks into Mufasa (voiced by Seth Rogen) from an orphaned cub to a revered leader. As the story unfolds, you’ll watch in awe as Mufasa and companions navigate various dangers.

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20 best movies of 2020 as picked by the Time Out Singapore team

From Hollywood blockbusters to indie flicks, here are the movies that kept us engaged and entertained as the year went on

While the year started out bright with Oscar-nominated films like 1917 and Jojo Rabbit screening in cinemas islandwide, we’re not going to mince our words for what comes next: the rest of the year was the pits – even Tenet couldn't save cinema. 2020 was meant to be the year for the next Bond installment No Time To Die , as well as the next mega Marvel movie Black Widow , but in April, the circuit breaker happened and cinemas shuttered until late June.

Despite it all, a slew of great movies still managed to make their way into the world – whether through online streaming services or reopened cinemas . Some helped us get through the tough year, some cast a light on various injustices, but many delivered the laughs, tears, and fears we need from movies. We’ll even admit that some of us even managed to achieve a personal best on Netflix too. Here are the 2020 movies that kept us engaged and entertained as the year went on.

RECOMMENDED: The best upcoming movies in Singapore and the best alternative cinemas in Singapore

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We could all use some chicken soup for the soul this year. Otherwise, Disney and Pixar's new animation Soul will do too. The feel-good film follows a middle-school band teacher who revisits his love for jazz. But what's jazz without some soul (pun intended)? When a little misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before, he discovers the process of souls getting their personalities, quirks, and interests before they go to Earth. Along the way, he learns and understands what it all means to have a soul.

Wonder Woman 1984

Plenty of perms, neon, and New Order music in the DC cinematic universe as per its trailer? We're sold. After her 2017 debut, the Princess of the Amazons blasts to the past (or future if from the WWI-set origin story) to confront baddies Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah, a villainess with superhuman powers, before they wreak havoc on the world.

The Golden Globe-winning World War I epic follows – literally, through a single-take, tracking shot à la Birdman – two young British soldiers in northern France who are tasked with delivering a life-saving message to a distant battalion. To get there, though, they must traverse life-threatening enemy terrains and across the countryside. It’s a war movie you’ll definitely get sucked into.

The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers returns with another gothic thriller featuring two lighthouse keepers losing their marbles as they get stuck on a remote New England island. It's v intage horror in all its black-and-white-boxy-ratio glory. Oh, and  R.Patz wanks off to a mermaid – an attestation to the forces that surrounds the island.

Whether you love it or loathe it – Tenet was anticipated as the “movie that will save cinema” this year. Christopher Nolan’s time-bending, espionage sci-fi shadows man-on-a-mission John David Washington in his quest to stop a third world war and save humanity. With bullets flying backward, speeches being reversed, and key scenes replaying twice, this ambitious epic will nonetheless reinvent the way you watch films.

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Armando Iannucci – the brilliant mind behind political satire The Death of Stalin – reimagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode in a vigorous, nearly zany adaptation that will charm the pants (or corset) off you. This modernised period drama – or rather, comedy – documents David Copperfield’s quirky journey from impoverished orphan to emerging writer in Victorian England.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Another one to add to the epic tales of star-crossed lovers, Céline Sciamma’s glorious period romance sets hearts beating when an aristocratic bride-to-be in an arranged marriage and the artist commissioned to paint her wedding portrait catch feelings. It's an electric combination of sensual, intelligent, and evocative that cleverly showcases the transformative power of love.

Saint Frances

This SXSW Special Jury and Audience Award-winning dramedy follows a deadbeat nanny who accepts a gig from a couple who embody the progressive American dream – mixed-race, LGBTQ+, liberal, middle-class, and successful – to care for their six-year-old daughter. While dealing with the physical and emotional fallout of an abortion, she begins to form an unlikely friendship with the young charge, discovering herself along the way.

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On the rocks.

Acclaimed writer-director Sofia Coppola is back with sometimes muse Bill Murray with footloose dramedy about dads, daughters and divorce. From Ghostbuster to Cheaterbuster, the actor plays a larger-than-life playboy father who helps his daughter get to the bottom of her husband’s suspicious behaviour. What follows is a refreshing trip around the Big Apple that draws father and daughter closer together despite one detour after another.

Available to stream on Apple TV+ .

Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee takes us deep into the Vietnamese jungle with a drama full of old scars and new possibilities. The Netflix original is a maximalist portrait of four Black Vietnam veterans, former US soldiers, arriving in Ho Chi Minh City to reunite and reckon with their past, while hoping to locate a stash of gold hidden deep inside the jungle. And with that gold, it’s up to the men to turn the American nightmare into the American dream – whether that’s for political or personal gain.

Available to stream on Netflix .

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Chicago Seven is a group of anti-war protestors who were blamed for rioting outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention. But Aaron Sorkin’s courtroom drama – which faithfully sticks to the real-life events – also includes an eighth for the bulk of the runtime, Black Panthers co-founder Bobby Seale who is indicted on the most circumstantial evidence. The ferociously articulate film zeroes in on a specific yet hugely emblematic moment and plays it out with stirring passion and quickfire dialogue.

Whether you’re a fan of Citizen Kane or not, David Fincher’s sly black-and-white ode to Hollywood’s Golden Age is a movie to get lost in. Mank is also known as Herman J Mankiewicz, one of the finest writers in Tinseltown, who was tapped up by Orson Wells to help write the script for Citizen Kane .

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“Because we stayed in a lot, this was the year I clocked in a lot of telly time. But it's also the year where I wasn't watching anything particularly serious or deep. Get Duked made me laugh a lot – it's a horror-hip hop-dark comedy on the Duke of Edinburgh awards.”

- Delfina Utomo, Editor

Now here’s a movie that mixes humour, horror and hip-hop into a homemade Molotov cocktail of mayhem and map-reading, topped with gentle social commentary. It trails after three students who are forced to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme after blowing up a school toilet. With another one in the mix, they reluctantly make their way across the wilderness where they get into some trouble with a pair of gun-crazy hunters.

“It's weird now that I think about it but I honestly didn't watch that many movies that came out this year. But Gagarine – which made its Southeast Asian debut during this year's SGIFF – is an emotionally poignant and aesthetically pleasing film paired with an amazing soundtrack.”

- Dewi Nurjuwita, Art & Culture Editor

This moving magic-realist tale is an imaginative exploration of isolation and community. Inspired by the real-life demolition of a public housing in the Paris region, the film orbits around a teenage resident who finds himself becoming the proverbial city spaceman, while coping with the loss of his beloved community and home with gravity-defying means.

Enola Holmes

“It’s a fun and easy-to-watch film that puts a feminist twist on the usual detective genre that we are used to.”

- Fabian Loo, Food & Drink Writer

So you have your pick of the various Sherlock Holmes, from Benedict Cumberbatch’s modern take to Robert Downey Jr’s brutish version to Will Ferrell’s silly sort. But what about his lesser-known siblings? And no, we’re not talking about Mycroft. Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes spin-off focuses on Enola Holmes, the brainy but belittled sister of the great detective who goes off to solve the mystery of their missing mum, demonstrating the genius streak that runs in the family.

Jojo Rabbit

“It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but Jojo Rabbit brings the laughs – Taika Watiti style. But it’s not all fun and games. It actually shows a part of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a naive little boy who is also one of the many people pulled into the thick of it all.”

- Cam Khalid, City Life Writer

New Zealand’s Taika Watiti puts on his boots as a filmmaker and a goofball fantasy-Führer in this outlandish World War II satirical comedy. Like a Wes Anderson movie set during the Third Reich, the film charts a tricky way into a tough subject, following a 10-year-old Hitler Youth whose imaginary buddy is Adolf Hitler himself. 

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

“IMO, Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman’s powerhouse performances carry this Netflix adaptation – Chadwick’s last on-screen appearance is his best. Beyond their soulful performances, the film also reveals some hard truths about hard work, and the exploitation of Black art in America.”

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s   Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom , this Netflix adaptation sees “Mother of the Blues” and her band at a recording studio in hot Chicago in 1927. The heat is on when Ma Rainey squares off with her white management, while the ambitious trumpeter Levee, who is trying to get his own career launched, spurs his fellow musicians into an eruption of stories, truths, and lies that will forever change the course of their lives.

“Sadly not caught up on 2020 films, so most of my faves this year are from the year before. But I've got Minari on my list – it's Bong Joon Ho approved so what more do I need? Well, except maybe tissue paper to wipe my tears.”

- Cheryl Sekkappan, Staff Writer

Grab your tissue box for this tender movie which also doubles as a semi-autobiographical take on director Lee Isaac Chung’s own upbringing. Set in the 1980s,   Minari   follows a Korean-American family who moves from California to rural Arkansas in search for a better life and their own American Dream. However, the family home changes when their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother arrives. 

“It’s about how a person from the past connects and interacts with a person living in the current era via a phone. What’s scary is how the person living in another era can control the future. Anything horror or thriller, I’m a fan.”

- Kashmira Kasmuri, Designer

The equally gripping South Korean Netflix adaptation of British and Puerto Rican film The Caller bends time and space to manipulate one’s own fate. The time travel thriller connects a woman from a vengeful past to someone in the present. Out of resentment, the former wrecks havoc on the space-time continuum via a phone, interchanging their fates.

Available to stream on   Netflix .

“Scraping the barrel here as I have only been to the cinema once and that was to see Mulan , which sadly makes it the only 2020 film that I have seen.”

- Tim Webb, Managing Director, Asia

Not just another Disney live-action remake, this one’s shaped as a historical epic sas Eddie Murphy’s Mushu. Similar to its animated counterpart, the film follows Mulan’s brazen move to take the place of her ailing father in the Imperial Army disguised as a man. See her “get down to business” to become one of China’s greatest warriors.

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“Closer to home, local documentary film Sementara is the best film about Singapore life I've seen and I was really impressed.”

Titled after the Malay word for ‘temporary’, Sementara is a thoughtful documentary that invites all to look through the lens of various individuals who call Singapore home. It presents a compelling yet sensitive portrayal of Singapore through the different perspectives on issues such as religion, race, identity and mortality as told through personal stories and experiences. It also features a brief appearance by Time out Singapore Editor, Delfina Utomo.

Tiong Bahru Social Club

The debut feature by Singaporean filmmaker Tan Bee Thiam is a satirical comedy that follows a man who leaves his mundane, desk-bound office job for a data-driven programme that aims to create the world’s happiest residents in the utopian neighbourhood. While it’s an amusing take on the standard of living in Singapore, it does leave you questioning the concept of happiness in the city. Read our interview with Tan Bee Thiam for the lowdown on the film.

Repossession

Everyone loves a scary story, so turn your attention to Repossession. The award-winning psychological thriller sees the deadly vice of pride reimagined through the lenses of local directing duo Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard. It follows Jim whose mid-life crisis is met with losing his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore. He finds himself hiding the truth from his family, and awakening the demon from his dark past – all at the expense of his pride. Read our interview with the directors on the scare-o-meter of Repossession .

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Geylang Review: Mark Lee Is Hysterical As Pimp In Red Light District-Set Crime Thriller Produced By Jack Neo

Geylang (M18)

Starring mark lee, sheila sim, shane mardjuki, gary lau, patricia lin, directed by boi kwong.

Good to see a Singaporean movie about the sleazy underside of Geylang that’s shot vividly in actual lorongs.

But as Geylang careens on in neon-noir darkness like a car crash in a washing machine, its characters should be staying instead in Changi.

Changi Prison. Because the body count here can fill an illegal gambling den.

This nocturnal homicidal drama interweaving five individuals takes place in one heady night of high crimes and moral misdemeanours. Inexplicably on the eve of Nomination Day for a looming general election.

Don’t ask me why.

Directed by Boi Kwong and co-produced by Jack Neo, this pic is readily relatable since its title is our principal locale for sin. It’s busy with a lot of scenes. Including right inside a red-light pleasure house. But when these scenes turn messy and plain nuts, well, a familiar name can only go so far.

The body of a prostitute is found by the roadside. Cause and effect are unveiled in a countdown of reverse chronology. From three months, one week, three days ago to the day before the said night, we see flashbacks linking people with things to hide ranging from plausible to preposterous.

Mystery and characters twist, untwine and re-tie themselves into clunky knots. A demented doctor, for instance, harvests an organ from a live victim, but still finds time to make a house call.

Mark Lee is spot-on perfect in this crude environment spouting Hokkien as Fatty, a beleaguered but good-hearted brothel owner who scurries all over the streets. He’s the movie's iffy ethical heart as he grapples with a dementia-stricken father, a missing hooker and a dead Ah Long stuffed into his car boot. Needing to get out of town right away, he’s side-tracked into becoming an accidental fixer by the urgencies of others.

The missing girl, Shangri-la (Taiwanese actress Patricia Lin), is strapped down in the darkened shophouse clinic of the mad doc, Dr Sun (Shane Mardjuki). He’s apologetic about carving out her kidney to save his ailing child but exudes serial-killer vibes like a 10-alarm fire. It stumps me how someone who just had a major organ removed can still flee and converse. “My kidney was taken,” the unwilling donor reveals in a car. Er, okay.

Wrong turn: Sheila Sim picked the wrong night to buy supper in Geylang. 

Meanwhile, Shangri-la's “tattooed cigarette seller” boyfriend, Ah Jie (Gary Lau), searches frantically for her on his neon-lit motorbike — cue night-scene visual effect — by pinging her phone. And a do-gooder lawyer-turned-social worker, Celine Wong (Sheila Sim), kaypohs her way into the picture to the detriment of both life and common sense.

“I'm Celine from Project Angel,” she tells the hookers she's trying to help. You know, without the murderous overkill — no pun intended — this subplot alone would be fascinating enough for a Leaving Las Vegas probe into our very own notorious underworld. In a Leaving Geylang way not seen since Lim Kay Tong went Travis Bickle-loco in 2004’s Perth .

All would be SG-sin fab if only Geylang was more realistic and not over-cooked in high imagination and overwhelmed by way higher improbability.

I’m no expert in crime. But ‘'m pretty sure that mighty rare is any abnormal night in Singapore when a doctor in a signboard-prominent white coat slugs it out with a lawyer in slo-mo on the street. Plus going MMA — Mad Med Aggro — against a pimp and an Ah Beng.

These fights, though, are so well staged, violent and prolonged — especially when supple uncle Lee, scalpels and a killer cupboard are thrown in —  that even a cockroach doesn’t get this much battering.

Director Boi, making a comeback after 2008’s gangster flick, The Days , reportedly said that Geylang is a homage to the likes of Hong Kong shady-underbelly thriller director, Johnnie To. As the sort of tale where a seedy area becomes an ambiguous existential crisis centre for denizens with no easy means of escape.

“Butterflies that can no longer fly, fall to the ground and only death awaits them,” goes the morbid code. Making you wanna slurp the cheng tng there even more gratefully.

But you don’t get a transplanted Johnnie To-ish quality here. Geylang ’s characters, connected more by concoction than fate, don’t convey a sure sense of their trapped place of vice. It may be due to the absence of palpable grit since Boi bathes the movie in decoratively lighted colours — red interiors, assorted hues, a tourist-attraction bicycle flitting by —  instead of an overall dusky tint that would’ve instilled a lurking sinister presence.

Check out Zhang Yimou's historical pic, Full River Red , to feel the suspense this undertone brings straightaway.

But even To doesn’t have any character in his films utter this hilarious legislative line, “Only power can protect me. I want to be in parliament.”

Could be that this film, scripted by Link Sng ( Long Long Time Ago ), wants to claim some official redemption since Geylang, our famous red-light district, is portrayed quite emphatically in an infamous bad light.

I mean, bizarre political folks here actually want to clean up the crime and grime as their big civic ambition as Boi isn’t prepared to go full Saint Jack -cesspool.

The director, to be sure, makes effective use of his location. He keeps his camera low shooting the alleys, lorongs and dark corners while knowing that nothing captures the mood of the hood better than the endemic-terrific face of Mark Lee who’s born to play a procurer afflicted with propriety.

“If you choose to be a pimp, be a righteous one,” his father instructs him as though this is even morally possible.

It’s an incompatibility of sheer opposites —  from authentic to fantastic — which Geylang itself seems to be stricken by too. (3/5 stars)

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