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21 November 2012 #454

This weekend, you may want to support our feminist allies at SlutWalk Singapore's SlutScreen 2012 film festival at the Goodman Arts Centre, which features three documentaries about marital rape, sexual assault and the 'virginity movement'.

In cinemas this week, our pick of the week is Breaking Dawn: Part 2, otherwise known as possibly the last chance to see Taylor Lautner strip down to his skivvies for a long time. The final instalment in the Twilight saga features that much as well as a climactic showdown between the Cullens and the Volturi.

Never mind that the Chinese invaders got airbrushed via CGI into North Korean military goons in the Red Dawn remake. I'm here to tell you that if you want to watch a movie about the transformative experience of war and how it turns boys to men, or about the importance of defending your country: there's only ONE film showing right now that shows all that, and it's obviously Red Dawn.

Arriving in time for the obligatory year-end holiday mascot movie season, Rise of the Guardians is a surprisingly entertaining and clever animated picture that envisions Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and even the Easter Bunny as a league of fantasy superheroes.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

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Breaking Dawn: Part 2

For all the affection and ridicule it has spawned, no one can deny its signal of a fundamental shift in pop cultural depiction of vampires. Stephenie Meyer's genius, and some would say fundamental idiocy (but it may be an idiocy so profound to approach the level of genius) is to turn the vampire: that horror icon symbolic of all manner of sexual depravity, debauchery, decadence and destructive appetites, into a knight in shining skin, its existence a paean to sexual abstinence and monogamous marriage. To finally turn a horror icon a complete 180 degrees from its original purpose and intent probably marks as profound a change as that period in literature when vampires ceased to become less like what we think of today as zombies (living corpses that emerged from the ground to prey on humans) and as representatives of the mysterious yet depraved aristocrats that the European public regarded in both fear and awe.

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23rd Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2012
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16 November to 4 December 2012, Broadway Cinematheque/The One/Palace IFC, Hong Kong
 

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