If you haven't heard about it yet, a group of filmmakers came to Singapore during Pink Dot and made a short film on location, called Love at First Degree. It's always great to know that our LGBT movement can inspire people overseas to do great things! The short film just got uploaded onto YouTube and we encourage you to watch it. WATCH trailer; WATCH short film.

Our pick of the week in cinemas is The Words. Three different stories from three completely different film/literary genres are brought together by an author whose lust for fame and recognition leads him to commit the greatest literary sin — passing someone's work off as his own. With Jeremy Irons, Bradley Cooper and Dennis Quaid in the cast, there are bound to be fireworks!

Liam Neeson is back as the security specialist who, if you kidnap his close family, will find out who you are, hunt you down, and kill you in Taken 2. This time round, he's the one getting kidnapped and it's his daughter who must hunt down his kidnappers!

Tired of generic romcoms? The antidote we recommend is the anti-romcom Celeste and Jesse Forever, which takes a huge hammer to the conventions of romcom and date movies. Here, Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg star as a couple with really good chemistry who decide to break up while maintaining their BFFs status.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan