SINGAPORE: Why did a film from China, shot almost entirely in Teochew language on a modest budget with mostly non-professional actors, create such a storm in Singapore? Tickets for the initial eight ...

Director Lan Hongchun’s family saga feels like a good old-fashioned novel as it goes in search of a man who has disappeared in Thailand With a story that ranges from the 1940s to the present and, ...

What begins as a shakedown ends up as an eye-opening and healing odyssey for a Teochew family in writer-director Lan Hongchun’s box office juggernaut Dear You, the latest indie drama to make waves in ...

I did. And I'm not Teochew. Particularly when this pic goes from being light-hearted to a full-blown drama. As reflected on the face of its terrific breakout star, Li Sitong, whose pensive, stoic gaze ...

Bestseller McFadden (The Intruder) returns with a nasty dive inside the mind of the brilliant, psychopathic advice columnist Debbie Mullen. Thirty years ago, Debbie was an MIT computer science major ...

Certain losses change your grammar. The writer Victoria Chang lost her mother six years ago, to pulmonary fibrosis. Six years before that, her father had a stroke, then slid into dementia—there but ...