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15 August 2012 #440

Movie lovers, rejoice!

Though the period between summer blockbusters and year-end blockbusters is traditionally a lull period, it's a great time for film festivals in Singapore. Tickets are already on sale for the 20th Israeli Film Festival, and I'm happy to say there's a LGBT interest film, The Secrets (trailer), in its lineup.

For this week though, our pick is Magic Mike where Channing Tatum leads a host of hunks in a male striptease and lapdance act. We hear that Tatum (who produced this film) was a real-life stripper before he became an actor, which might explain why its sequences and costumes seem so real...

The Silent War is a nitty-gritty spy-vs-spy thriller set in the post-civil war period where the Generalissimo was feared as a man with a plan for taking back China. Tony Leung stars as a espionage prodigy on whom China's future rests. The question though is whether the PRC-produced film will better the Taiwanese-USA spy thriller Lust, Caution which also starred Tony Leung.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

Magic Mike

It's raining men in Magic Mike! And the most audacious move from Soderbergh is casting Channing Tatum, who did start out in real life as a 19-year old strip dancer, in a film about strip dancers. Soderbergh's film provides his usual documentary-like approach to telling stories: the initiation of newcomer "The Kid" (Alex Pettyfer) by Magic Mike (Tatum), the newcomer's discovery of a new set of possibilities that come with this new life and the darkness behind the shiny facade of this alluring lifestyle.

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