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Critic - No.176 Director: Anthony Chen Producer : Anthony Chen, Huang Wenhong, Tan Si En Casts: Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Christopher Lee, Yang Shi Bin Language: Mandarin, English, Hokkien Genre: Drama SYNOPSIS:  A secondary school teacher, Ling, shares a special, self-affirming bond with her student Wei Lun that develops into a thorny, complex entanglement. REVIEW: Premiered in Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, Wet Season has already garnered the attention of festival circuits with a whopping 6 nominations at the Golden Horse Awards 2019. Anthony Chen makes a striking comeback after his stunning debut with Ilo Ilo (2013) that garnered the Cannes Camera d’Or. Chen continues to show his strength in handling women’s emotions realistically and maturely through the lead character Ling, a secondary school teacher in mid-thirties who is going through rough patch in her marriage. After failing to conceive after 8 years into the marriage, Ling undergo

Critic - No.175 Director: Atlee Produced by: Kalpathi S Aghoram, Kalpathi S Ganesh, Kalpathi S Suresh Casts:  Vijay, Nayanthara, Vivek, Yogi Babu, Jackie Shroff, Kathir Language: Tamil Music: A.R.Rahman Genre: Action / Drama / Sports SYNOPSIS: A do-gooder don Rayappan (Vijay) wants his son, Michael a.k.a Bigil (Vijay) to uplift the life of his people by becoming a soccer champion, but fate draws the youngster into a life of violence. Situation brings him back to the track of soccer after 7 years and will Bigil manage to fulfill his father’s dream this time? REVIEW: After a dream run of churning two blockbusters with Vijay, Atlee has whipped up yet another masala flick which is perfect for the festive season and this time with more blatant social messages that are placed organically in the story. As the synopsis suggests, the first half of the film focusses more on the mass treatment with hero glorifying moments, hill old predictable ‘Baasha’ or ‘Mersal’ kin