If you were here in Singapore last weekend, you might have listened to Jay Chou sing at the F1 race circuit concert or watched Rain's farewell concert "Rain: The Best" in cinemas here.

Our pick for this week though is GF*BF, a LGBT film which begins in the waning years of Chiang's martial law era, where a teenage love triangle discover political and social freedom at the same time as their own sexual discovery.

The Assassins is a Zhang Yimou-style re-telling of the political intrigue of China's Three Kingdoms period. The revisionist tale throws a pair of unhappy star-crossed lovers and assassins against the backdrop of some serious political kabuki between the warlord Cao Cao (played by a very charismatic Chow Yun Fatt) and his puppet emperor.

We also recommend action thriller Premium Rush for those in need of an adrenalin rush. The action thriller stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a speed bicycle courier in spandex shorts zipping around downtown NYC delivering a package that the Chinese mob and crooked NYPD cops both want.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan