| FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7

FILMS John Lui Film Correspondent recommends The Dead Don’t Die (2019, M18) In Centerville, the dead rise from their

graves and attack and feast on the Picks living, so its citizens must battle to survive. Bill Murray, Adam Driver,

Chloe Sevigny and Danny Glover star Film in this raucous, rueful and satirical glimpse at American habits and desires. WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Today, 6.50pm; tomorrow, 8.30pm; Sun, 4.50pm; Mon & Tue, 8pm ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg

Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion (1997, NC16) Two women (Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) appear to not have had much success in life and invent fake careers to impress former classmates at their high-school reunion. This Glory Hoes event begins with drinks an hour before the screening and a Hoe Down after the show. WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Today, 9.30pm (activities from 8.30pm) ADMISSION: $30 INFO: theprojector.sg

PHOTOS: THE PROJECTOR, FILM SOCIETY, IWONDER Paterson (2016, NC16) Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. AMAZING GRACE (PG) Her goal was to record a because of lawsuits from The sound is pristine and the Every day, he follows a simple routine, 89 minutes/Now showing at back-to-her-roots gospel album Franklin. visuals put the viewer there, including writing poetry in The Projector/ and under the hand of illustrious One year after her death, the film with the enraptured audience. a notebook. On the other hand, director Sydney Pollack, a concert is out – and it is glorious. She is WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 the world of his wife Laura is ever In Los Angeles in 1972, Aretha Franklin film. backed by the best in the business: Golden Mile Tower, Beach Road changing. But they love each other (above) gave a concert at the New The film was never released bassist Chuck Rainey, drummer MRT: Nicoll Highway and support each other’s aspirations. Temple Missionary Baptist Church. because of technical problems. Bernard Purdie and pianist WHEN: Now showing, various times WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden The Queen of Soul was already Even when it became possible to James Cleveland, among other ADMISSION: $13.50 Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road a star. fix them, the footage was held back greats. INFO: theprojector.sg MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Sun, 8.20pm ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg

Downtown East Free Outdoor Movie Screening This month’s film, Guang (2018, PG13), is about autistic Wen Guang (Kyo Chen), who is sent to look for work by his brother (Ernest Chong), but the attempts fail. Guang is compulsively drawn to objects that produce musical notes and behaves in a way that causes potential employers to reject him. His brother, who has raised him since the death of their mother, resents postponing his ambitions to look after his child-like sibling. WHERE: Outside D’Marquee, Downtown East, 1 Close MRT: Pasir Ris WHEN: Tomorrow, CLEAN UP (NC16) Currents award at last year’s Busan THE KLEPTOCRATS And, of course, allegations of the 7.30 - 10pm ADMISSION: Free 104 minutes/screening International Film Festival, is skilfully (Rating to be confirmed) swindling of billions carried out by TEL: 6589-1688 today and tomorrow/ directed and edited, and treats its 82 minutes/Now streaming on leaders at the apex of government. INFO: www.downtowneast.com.sg characters with compassion. iwonder/ Documentary makers Sam The title of this South Korean The film is screened as part of the Hobkinson and Havana Marking could NATURE psychological thriller refers to how Contemporary Asian Cinema Series, Financial scandals tend to be dry have made a decent film using only its protagonists work in a clean-up a partnership between the Singapore affairs, but not Malaysia’s 1MDB interviews with American journalists crew, a job that has them tackling Film Society (SFS) and Filmgarde scandal. and footage of yachts and Las Vegas Walk Through MacRitchie the homes of dead hoarders and Cineplexes. The series will showcase This one is as juicy as they come: parties, but they include interviews To Nature Reserve crime scenes. It is not a career for critically acclaimed films from parties held by Malaysian fugitive with Malaysians, including a protester YMCA’s Monthly Walk takes hikers people with options. South Korea, Hong Kong, China, businessman Jho Low (above), in and a cartoonist, whose testimonies through MacRitchie Reservoir and A former convict, a man named Japan and other parts of the region. which Cristal champagne flowed in add a layer of personal tragedy and along Rifle Range Road to Bukit Timah Min Goo (Kim Dae-gun) one day joins WHERE: Filmgarde Cineplex Bugis+ torrents, with celebrity guests such black humour to an already surreal Nature Reserve, before exiting at the team. His arrival, for some reason, 05-01 Bugis+, 201 Victoria Street, as Pharell Williams, Leonardo event. Dairy Farm Nature Park. The walk distresses Jung Ju (Yoon Ji-hye, both MRT: Bugis WHEN: Today and DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Kanye The Kleptocrats is available on ends at Dairy Farm Carpark A. above), a crew veteran who prays and tomorrow, 7.20pm West. newly launched documentary WHERE: Meet at Windsor Park drinks herself into oblivion every day. ADMISSION: $13.50 (public), Then, there was the handbag cache streaming service iwonder carpark, Venus Drive The melancholic yet suspenseful $12 SFS Film Addicts and worth millions, the bags of cash and a (iwonder.com). MRT: Marymount WHEN: Tomorrow, first feature from writer-director Filmgarde members villainess who ruled that the use of There is a 30-day free trial. 7 - 11am ADMISSION: Free Kwon Man-ki, winner of the New INFO: fgcineplex.com.sg/movies her image in cartoons – especially Thereafter, subscription will cost TEL: WhatsApp 8579-2650 for satirical ones – was banned. $6.99 a month or $69 a year. inquiries INFO: www.ymca.org.sg

Ramble Sustainability At MacRitchie Reservoir Completed in 1868, MacRitchie Reservoir is Singapore’s oldest reservoir. Despite parts of the surrounding forest being converted into plantation in the past, more than 1 sq km of primary forest is still standing in the Central Catchment WHERE: Orchid Plaza, Singapore MRT: Dhboy Ghaut WHEN: Sun, WHERE: Lakeside Garden, holding roadshows, in which shoppers Nature Reserve, particularly around Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road 10am - 4pm (hourly) Lake Gardens West MRT: Lakeside are encouraged to get moving and MacRitchie Reservoir. Forest trees, MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: Aug 3 ADMISSION: Singapore citizens & WHEN: Tomorrow, 9am - noon exercise on an aerobic stepper, and remnants of the plantations from the & 4, 9am - 7pm ADMISSION: Free permanent residents: $4 ($2 for ADMISSION: Free, for kids aged raise funds for household and safety 20th century, can still be seen along INFO: E-mail nparks_sbg_visitor_ children aged four - 12; $12 for family three - 12 INFO: E-mail products for 3,000 underprivileged the reservoir’s fringes. [email protected] of four); foreigners: $10 ($30 for [email protected] families in the South East District of WHERE: Meet Pandian at MacRitchie family of four) INFO: E-mail Singapore. With every 500 steps Reservoir Park Cafe entrance in PETS md_shariff_abu_yamin@ clocked on a stepper (about 30 Thomson Road at 8am OTHERS nparks.gov.sg minutes of exercise), 3M will donate MRT: Caldecott WHEN: Tomorrow, one product to be put in the 3M 8am - 2pm ADMISSION: Free Singapore Cat Festival Central Singapore Market INFO: www.nss.org.sg There will be activities such as CONTESTS The first farmers’ market to be household and safety pack. product showcases by international held at an MRT station, the Central Six products will make up one hamper Big Beach Clean-Up brands of cat food, treats and SAF Yacht Club: Offshore Singapore Market aims to promote for one beneficiary. This family-friendly event has accessories; a bazaar by local and Fishing Competition a healthy lifestyle through locally WHERE: FairPrice VivoCity, removed more than 24,000kg of international lifestyle labels; SAF Yacht Club members and guests grown and crafted offerings by 1 Harbourfront Walk plastic to date. After a safety briefing adoption drives; local and pedigree can take part in this competition, home-grown farmers and MRT: HarbourFront from 9 to 9.15am, participants will kitty meet & greets; sharing sessions which is organised as an Open enterprises. It also wants to advocate WHEN: Tomorrow & Sun, noon - 8pm head to the beach for the main by fellow cat owners; educational Individual event. All catches must be environmental awareness via ADMISSION: Free activity and end with refreshments at talks by industry specialists as well as submitted for weigh-in at the SAFYC upcycled artisanal products and INFO: go.3m.com/3mstepup 11.30am. Things to take along for giveaways and contests at this event. ’s marina office area by strengthen inclusivity, in which the event include safety gloves WHERE: Level 1 Atrium, Great World 4.30pm the same day. people with special needs will (cotton ones are sold at $5 at the City, 1 Kim Seng Promenade WHERE: SAF Yacht Club, 43 Admiralty showcase their abilities through venue), drinking water (in a reusable MRT: /Somerset Road West MRT: Sembawang performances and hand-crafted • The listings on these Happenings bottle), sunscreen, bug spray and WHEN: Tomorrow & Sun, 11am - 9pm WHEN: Sept 1, 9am - 5pm products. pages are free. Write to Life closed-toe shoes. ADMISSION: Free ADMISSION: $50 - $70 registration WHERE/MRT: Street level, Happenings, Life, The Straits Times, WHERE: Constant Wind, NSRCC Sea INFO: bit.ly/2YaCmCV fee; $35 - $50 boat charter; register Bishan MRT Station 1000 North, Singapore Sports Centre, 11 Coast Walk at bit.ly/2Z3qRP3 TEL: 6758-3359 WHEN: Tomorrow & every last Sat 318994 or e-mail [email protected] MRT: Expo/Tanah Merah TOURS INFO: E-mail [email protected] of the month, 11am - 4pm at least two weeks ahead. Include the WHEN: Tomorrow, 9am - noon ADMISSION: Free name of the event, organiser, venue, ADMISSION: Free INFO: bit.ly/2ZaSxS2 INFO: facebook.com/centralsgcdc date and time, ticket prices and Istana Nature Guided Walk KIDS nearest MRT station, as well as your Singapore Botanic Gardens This guided walk is a collaboration Market Square between the President’s Office and Gardens – LAST CALL name, address and contact number. Enjoy scrumptious bites and shop the (NParks) Ant Play We reserve the right to edit for plants at the Market Square in the and will showcase the Istana’s flora Children will learn how ants build 3M-FairPrice Step Up or reject items. Go to Orchid Plaza as part of your weekend and fauna as well as its biodiversity. homes and get the opportunity to Challenge www.straitstimes.com (click on outing at Singapore Botanic Gardens. WHERE: The Istana, mimic the insects. 3M Singapore and FairPrice are Lifestyle) for more listings.